"This half of the escorted cargo was brought into the city by an escort named Gu Changqing. Mad Saber Su Meng found him a place to stay, but I followed, knocked him unconscious, and took the cargo. I deliberately left clues behind, hoping to fish out a few people." Heavenly Venerable Guangcheng tactfully changed the subject. As a divine constable, he knew better than anyone how powerful the formation was, so he only briefly described his actions.
Ji Hao's gaze grew deep as he turned to Heavenly Venerable Guangcheng.
"I was doing it for that young man's own good. The waters in the capital are too deep, after all. He couldn't handle this thing." Heavenly Venerable Guangcheng looked rather embarrassed as he explained.
As the first-ranked expert on the Human Ranking, Mad Saber Su Meng had been registered with the upper ranks of the Traces of Immortals precisely so that its senior members would protect its newcomers.
It certainly wasn't so they could stab newcomers in the back and set them up.
He then took out an elaborately carved Sandalwood Ancient Box. A layer of bright red petals lined its interior, so vivid they seemed ready to drip blood, without the slightest sign of wilting. An oddly shaped object rested atop them.
It appeared to have been cast from gold and studded with red and purple gems, with bizarre patterns engraved across it. Looking closely at those patterns made one dizzy. Neither the patterns nor the arrangement of gems was complete; it seemed to be half, or part, of some object.
"It looks like a token, but someone split it in two." True Monarch Qingyuan Miaodao gave a soft exclamation, recalling the two pieces of escorted cargo mentioned in the mission.
So they had originally been one object, merely divided