Xu Taiping frowned at her words.
"You seem to have misunderstood. I happened to pick up this half of a gold lock."
As he spoke, he took a step back and rested his hand on the hilt of the blade at his waist.
"You're lying!"
The girl in yellow snorted, then took an identical half of a gold lock from her sleeve and continued, her voice trembling slightly:
"This is called a Soul Pursuit Lock. Whenever disciples of our Pure Yang Sword Sect venture out, we carry one half and leave the other with a trusted fellow disciple. If we die, that disciple can use the other half of the Soul Pursuit Lock to find the killer!"
As she spoke, she tossed out the half of the Soul Pursuit Lock she had taken from Xu Taiping.
Sure enough, the Soul Pursuit Lock began circling Xu Taiping and the stone pillar behind him.
At the sight, understanding dawned on Xu Taiping.
No wonder I couldn't remember where this gold lock came from. It followed me here on its own.
But now it seemed that the gold lock was not actually following him, but Senior A Meng behind him.
After all, he was the one who had killed the man.
"Senior Brother Sun, Senior Brother Zhao, I've found the killer who murdered Senior Brother Chen Sheng!"
Just as Xu Taiping was considering how to explain that Chen Sheng had succumbed to demonic corruption and had therefore been put down by A Meng of their own Pure Yang Sword Sect to cleanse its ranks, the girl suddenly waved to two Pure Yang Sword Sect disciples approaching them.
These two were also around seventeen or eighteen, but looked far more mature than the girl.
Upon hearing her words, both Pure Yang Sword Sect disciples'