So this was his youngest daughter—his daughter, who had saved their entire Xiang Clan by her own strength alone.
"Senior, a mysterious person entrusted this item to my care. He said that one day, someone would come to take it away."
"If I'm not mistaken, that mysterious person was you, Senior?"
With a devout expression, Xiang Cheng handed the scroll in his hands to Ye Lin. He no longer cared about the mysterious person's instructions. All he knew was that these two had saved his entire family.
Whether Ye Lin was the person the mysterious man had spoken of or not, he only wanted to get this thing off his hands immediately.
This thing was a ticking time bomb. It had only exploded a little, yet it had nearly brought extermination upon the entire Xiang Clan.
"A mysterious person?"
Taking the scroll Xiang Cheng offered, Ye Lin muttered to himself.
"That's right. Hundreds of thousands of years ago, this old man roamed freely throughout Yu Commandery. I was young and reckless then, and in the end, someone plotted against me, leaving me crippled. With no other choice, I withdrew from the cultivation world and honestly remained in this little patch of land."
"And this item was given to me by that mysterious person when I retired into seclusion."
Faced with Ye Lin's question, Xiang Cheng could only answer truthfully.
"Oh? Then do you know what this mysterious person looked like?"
Ye Lin narrowed his eyes slightly. He had become somewhat interested in the mysterious person Xiang Cheng spoke of.
Could it be that this so-called mysterious person had foreseen that he would come here? Had he been within that mysterious person's calculations all along?
"I don't know. When this old man met him, I only saw him dressed in a