Song Yan had never heard the name Cloud Return Ruins.
But his attention was elsewhere for the moment.
Senior Ao Gui's father-was a member of the Dragon Race who cultivated the Sword Dao?
With these seemingly unrelated words strung together, the first person Song Yan thought of was still Mirage.
Mirage Senior had deep ties to the Sword Sect and had even been its disciple in his youth.
In Jin Returner's Sword Dao Illusion earlier, when he joined the Sword Sect, he had belonged to the same generation as Third-Generation Sect Master Zhong Min.
Presumably, had the elder not neglected the Sword Dao, he would now have been a Sword Dao expert among the Demon Race.
But-
No matter how Song Yan looked at it, he did not seem like Ao Gui's father.
Regardless, Song Yan thanked her.
As he pondered, Ao Gui's finger had already touched Xiao He lightly between the brows, and countless Demon Race characters appeared in Xiao He's mind.
These characters arranged themselves into a Demon Race cultivation method.
The Thunder-Ming Marsh-Traveling Method.
"This is the Thunder Method I cultivated in the past. If you practice it well, you may be able to comprehend a Thunder Method divine ability from it."
"Thank you, Senior!" Xiao He thanked her.
Immediately afterward, brilliant light shone from both the brow and chest of Ao Gui's remains.
Two streaks of light shot through the dark chamber like stars, stopping before Song Yan and Xiao He respectively.
The radiance faded, revealing a scale before Song Yan. It should have been a dragon scale.
It was Song Yan's first time seeing a True Dragon's Heart-Guarding Scale. He drew it into his hand and examined it closely.
It was palm-sized and deep blue-green, with a faint trace of Thunder Breath contained within.
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