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

At his words and the sight before him, Tan Lin sighed inwardly.

The Xiang Family had declined to this point. This was their last remaining treasure, the final hope for this branch of the Xiang Family to rise again, yet now it was being given to him.

"Elder Li, this is far too precious. I would be ashamed to accept it. Besides, I've benefited immensely from the Abyss over the years. My origin has long since transformed to the limit of its current stage, so it no longer means much to me. It would be too wasteful for me to use it."

Tan Lin did not take the jade vial. He waved his hand, intending to decline it.

He already possessed the Bronze Token. The safeguard left behind from his previous life within it would not fully fade for another hundred-odd years.

"Take it!"

Xiang Li would hear none of it and forcibly stuffed the jade vial into Tan Lin's arms:

"No matter how precious a treasure is, it must be used by someone. Everyone in the clan has weak bloodlines, and in tens of thousands of years, no clansman's bloodline has ever returned to its ancestral state.

"This Ancestor Essence Blood will be more meaningful on you than gathering dust in the ancestral hall.

"It can block one fatal calamity for you and preserve your life. At a critical moment, the ancestral Dao essence contained within it may even help you uncover your potential.

"Don't think about whether you deserve it. It's been more than ten years. Even if you bear another surname, are you not still one of the Xiang Family? The Indestructible Golden Body Bloodline flows through all of us.

"If you truly feel you owe us, then when you someday reach the summit, come back and