"I, I don't know." Looking at the white bones before her, a flicker of surprise passed through the old woman's eyes, but her face wore a pitiful, helpless expression.
"You don't know?" Xiao Wu, who held her captive, let out a sinister cackle.
"That's easy! Our Xiao Clan has learned that soul-bone technique your Hun Clan used back then. Heh heh heh!"
At Xiao Wu's words, the old woman's expression instantly changed.
"I'll talk, I..." Before she could finish, Xiao Wu formed his Dou Qi into a long needle and drove it into her soul form.
"Aah!" The old woman let out a bloodcurdling scream, immediately growing much weaker.
The soul-bone technique Xiao Wu used involved extracting a thread of a Hun Clan Member's soul origin and turning it into a soul guide. That thread of origin could then be used to determine whether someone else had ties to the Hun Clan.
He suspended the wisp of glowing light in his hand in midair and formed several seals. The wisp then turned into a streak of light and shot into the white bones.
As the glow entered them, the bones, which had already become dry and dull, actually turned translucent and luminous, as though they had been nourished.
"Young master! This person did indeed possess the Hun Clan's bloodline!" Seeing this, Xiao Wen finally nodded in confirmation.
"However, this person's strength in life probably wasn't particularly high. At most, they were a Da Dou Shi or Dou Ling, and likely hadn't reached the Dou Wang level."
Xiao Wen spoke after a moment of contemplation.
"I see." Xiao Yan frowned and said nothing more, instead picking up the black iron token in his hand and examining it closely.
"Is there any way to find a means of tracking down the Hun