"If you truly cannot set your mind at ease, I will grant the two of you another item for protection."
The Grand Sacrificial Wine Master did not explain the furnace's wondrous properties. Instead, he tossed another object before Li Shun.
It was astonishingly a seemingly plain wooden short whip.
The whip had twenty-one sections in all, each engraved with four faint talismanic seals.
"With these two items, they will surely keep you safe."
The Grand Sacrificial Wine Master spoke blandly, his tone allowing no doubt.
Li Shun looked at the furnace and whip. With a stir of his thoughts, the two objects seemed to possess sentience, naturally falling into his hands.
Gently stroking the two treasures, though it was clearly his first time touching them, Li Shun felt as if he could wield them as easily as his own arms, as though their hearts were linked.
He could even store them within his dantian without the slightest obstruction.
"I grant you three days."
"Once the matter is done, return at once."
Without waiting for Li Shun to say anything more,
The Grand Sacrificial Wine Master lightly swept his sleeve. Li Shun and Shang Qingqiu were wrapped in an irresistible force and hurled toward the surface of Great Qian.
The two vanished completely from sight.
Only then did the Right Director of Studies speak. "At last, this matter has been set in motion. That boy truly is timid and suspicious."
"However..."
The Right Director of Studies looked at the Grand Sacrificial Wine Master, his expression grave. "The [Mysterious Pivot Gap] has shown no movement for centuries. Why did it suddenly reveal that image now? What meaning does it carry?"
The Grand Sacrificial Wine Master gazed in the direction where Li Shun had disappeared. After a long silence, he finally said, "The