"The handover between successive holders of the Thirteen Seats of the Abyss has always been this way."
Seemingly noticing Xu Taiping's confusion, Ni Zhao offered him an explanation in a perfectly calm tone.
Xu Taiping nodded, then pointed at the wooden box resting in his hand and asked:
"I just need to open this wooden box?"
Ni Zhao nodded expressionlessly.
"Only cultivators who have inherited second-stage or higher Qi and Blood Body Tempering Power can open this wooden box, so when you open it, you must raise your Qi and Blood Body Tempering Power to the Immaculate Realm."
Hearing this, Xu Taiping reached out and tried.
He found that the wooden box in his hand indeed could not be opened, just as Ni Zhao had said.
He first thanked Ni Zhao, then raised his Qi and Blood Body Tempering Power to the Immaculate Realm before reaching out to open the wooden box.
"Click..."
As though the wooden box could sense Xu Taiping's Qi and Blood Power, its lid sprang open automatically at the lightest touch of his finger.
At once, the objects inside the wooden box appeared before Xu Taiping's eyes-
A Bronze Ring, a slender-necked jade pot flawless from top to bottom, and a scroll.
The first thing Xu Taiping noticed was the Bronze Ring.
It was identical to the Bronze Ring Ni Zhao had entrusted Mister Da to give him.
Noticing Xu Taiping's gaze, Ni Zhao introduced it in a calm voice:
"This Bronze Ring is also called the Torch Dragon Ring. It is a Xiantian Divine Artifact containing extraordinarily powerful Power of Time."
"The Divine Ability within the ring, as you saw when you used it inside the Scroll of Time, can make the Power of Time accelerate, reverse, or stop."
"But the difference is that, in