Panlong Town.
Cultivator's Courtyard.
Shen Ye suddenly lowered his head, his gaze falling on his finger.
Two faint glimmers rose from the grayish-white lizard ring, like two fine threads, continuously displaying ever-changing runes. They were quite beautiful.
-This was the Immortal Kingdom Secret Guardian Ring.
He had only obtained this ring after defeating the lizard.
It guarded the path to heaven!
"What are these two lights?" Shen Ye asked.
The lizard's eyes moved, and it spoke. "The Penglai Mountain Master just did that. She secretly verified your identity, then left an art behind, manifesting it as these two rather distinctive lights, hoping to tell you something."
"What do the two lights represent?" Shen Ye asked.
"They represent your contact with two of the Immortal Kingdom's Three Arts: the Huntian Art and the Heaven-Piercing Art. Through this, the Penglai Mountain Master confirmed that you were a trustworthy inheritor from a later age," the lizard said.
Shen Ye fell silent.
She had been exceedingly cautious.
Not only had she confirmed that he could command a heart demon, that he cultivated the Supreme Emotionless Ascension Scripture, and that he had obtained the transformation rules of those ruins-
-She had also confirmed his connection to the Huntian Art and the Heaven-Piercing Art.
Only at the very end had she taken out that Jade Slip and placed it inside the Alchemy Furnace.
That Alchemy Furnace was probably the sturdiest thing on all of Penglai Immortal Mountain, enough to ensure that the Jade Slip could survive into later ages.
Had any one of these steps been missing, that Mountain Master would probably have kept up her act, never revealing her true attitude.
"So what is that Jade Slip?" Shen Ye asked.
"Part of the Heaven-Piercing Art," the lizard said.
"Part of it?" Shen Ye found that