With a boom, the red patterns of light flashed and vanished, and the Command Token took shape once more.
Xin Geng put the Command Token away and led Wang Yu straight toward the enormous city.
An hour later.
Inside a tall building in the outer district of Sunlit City.
Wang Yu took all the desiccated demon rat corpses and the fragment of black Jade Pendant with a talisman pasted onto it out of his Storage Bag, placing them on a stone platform before him. At the same time, he recounted what had happened in the Tong Household ruins to an old man with graying temples seated opposite him.
The old man's aura was clearly far stronger than Xin Geng's. He was actually a foundation establishment middle stage cultivator.
Xin Geng stood beside them as well, a smile on his face.
However, when Wang Yu mentioned the Green-Robed Dwarf he had encountered and the strange green flames he could release, which rapidly depleted dharma power, both the old man's and Xin Geng's expressions shifted slightly.
When they finally heard that Wang Yu had slain both the dwarf and the second-tier Yin Corpse Rat, their expressions became even more remarkable.
"Spirit-Slaying Demon Flame."
"It was almost certainly that demonic art. This Green-Robed Dwarf was most likely Jiao Sanchi, an elder of the Mara Sect. Only that scoundrel cultivated such a sinister, venomous art while also knowing something of corpse refinement."
"Jiao Sanchi was vicious and ruthless, but he was no weakling. He had even slain cultivators of his own stage before. To think he fell at your hands, Junior Brother Wang. That truly came as a surprise.
"But Junior Brother Wang, could you take out his magical artifacts and let the two of us have a look?
"It isn't that I