Shrouding the Heavens: The Years as the Empress's Strictest Master

Originally, it had five corners and five cloud patterns. Now, only three corners remained relatively intact. A crack spread from between the two missing corners toward the center, making it look as though it could shatter into pieces at any moment.

"What a little bastard..."

Behind Shao Hanyun's fleeing light, the Great Saint wielding a banner sneered upon seeing Tan Lin's actions as he pursued relentlessly:

"Did he think he was holding an Emperor Weapon or something... No, that's not right, it's 'you'..."

But before he could finish, his voice abruptly cut off.

The expression on his face froze completely.

Clearly, even back in the Big Dipper, as one of the hidden pillars of his lineage, he had kept to seclusion year-round and had never personally met Tan Lin.

Yet he had still heard of such a major incident back then. As for the plan to use Shao Hanyun as bait to lure the Indestructible Golden Body into their sect, although he had been in seclusion at the time, he had learned something of it afterward.

He knew that the Indestructible Golden Body later seemed to have had an "unusually close relationship" with Shao Hanyun...

Thus, seeing this man and woman reunite now, he seemed to have connected the dots!

"He's Tan Lin! Watch out for the Bronze Token in his hand..."

At the same time, warning cries came from the Great Saint cultivators closing in from the other two directions in the distance.

Unfortunately, it was already too late.

Tan Lin brushed his fingertip over the damaged portion of the Bronze Token and, without hesitation, injected a wisp of his soul aura into it.

Buzz...

The broken Bronze Token trembled lightly.

The next instant.

After several years, a wisp of dim cyan radiance, far weaker than when it had