"Chen Xinqiao!"
"Her? How could it be her?"
Zhang Yuan froze in astonishment for a moment. The scattered clues he had gathered suddenly threaded together in his mind, piecing together the whole truth.
Chen Xinqiao was the reincarnation of a remnant soul belonging to a great Outer Dao cultivator. After obtaining the Nine-Vault Golden Li Furnace and the Heavenly Radiance Illuminating the World True Scripture, he had happened to meet Chen Qinkuai and thus come to know Chen Xinqiao.
Everything had seemed coincidental, but in truth, his encounter with Chen Xinqiao had been inevitable.
Or rather, anyone carrying the Nine-Vault Golden Li Furnace and the Heavenly Radiance Illuminating the World True Scripture would encounter Chen Xinqiao-and kill her.
Then there was the True Lord of the Eastern Ya Cui Clan collecting those two objects.
From this, he could deduce that Chen Xinqiao's previous incarnation was bound by karma to the Outer Dao cultivator who had left the great tomb in Jianning City. Chen Xinqiao might even have been that very cultivator!
The lords above intended to use his hand to kill that great Outer Dao cultivator once and for all. They would not tolerate even a sliver of her remnant soul existing as Chen Xinqiao.
He had figured out the truth.
Yet Zhang Yuan's gaze remained dark.
Even knowing the truth, he still had only two choices before him: kill Chen Xinqiao himself and pass the trial, or spare her, fail the trial, and perish, his Dao extinguished.
And with Deng Qiuzhi confronting him, he did not even have time to think or hesitate!
Deng Qiuzhi sneered. Sensing that Zhang Yuan's third trial had arrived-the Dusty Bonds Trial, which required him to sever his worldly ties to attain the Dao-he suddenly understood True Lord Yuheng Wanzhuan's arrangements.
No wonder he