Yang Qing visibly froze for a moment when he saw the Bone Jade Thumb Ring.
Yun Niang smiled radiantly. "What, have you forgotten it already?"
Yang Qing took the ring in his hand, gently slid the pad of his finger along its inner surface, then examined it closely.
That utterly familiar mark appeared before his eyes.
This was the very ring Yang Qing had obtained before.
One of the tokens of the Twelve Holy Envoys.
But this ring had clearly been taken away before the Life-and-Death Gate opened. Why was it now in Yun Niang's hands?
From the look of things, Yun Niang knew their origins in considerable detail, yet they knew nothing about her.
At that thought, Yang Qing could not help tightening his grip on the ring.
"Don't you want to know how this ring came back?"
Seeing Yang Qing somewhat lost in thought, Yun Niang once again wore that incomparably radiant smile.
Yang Qing shook his head slightly. "Recovering something you've lost is certainly gratifying, but it's of no use to us right now."
Yang Qing did not want to learn the truth behind this because he had remembered Qin Yue dissolving into a cloud of bloody mist.
If the return of this Bone Jade Thumb Ring meant that all the tokens that had vanished earlier had returned as well, could Qin Yue also come back?
That was plainly impossible.
Besides, Yang Qing did not believe all those tokens had returned. Perhaps this ring alone had been retrieved.
Someone had already marked out every road. All they could do now was follow the path laid out for them.
Recovering the Bone Jade Thumb Ring gave Yang Qing no cause for joy. In fact, he was even beginning to understand why it had been returned to him.
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