Jiang Fan’s eyes flickered slightly and he said, "What if I told you, senior."
"The Ancient Token was never lost?"
What?
The Red-faced Elder suddenly stood up, his eyes vibrating with an inescapable shock.
But he quickly cald down. "How do you know?"
That Ancient Token had already been taken by the Demon Mirage’s avatar.
The True Word Venerable and Venerate Xinnie both saw it with their own eyes.
Could it still be false?
Jiang Fan said, "Doesn’t the senior want to know the na of the first on the Heavenly Ascending Ancient Road?"
Hmm?
The Red-faced Elder looked surprised. "Is it you again?"
Jiang Fan cupped his hands and said, "Indeed, it’s the junior."
Hey!
The Red-faced Elder circled around Jiang Fan, looking at him up and down in disbelief.
"Did you see a ghost?"
"Why is it always you everywhere?"
"The one who provided the long-lost Phoenix Feather Nine Flas Fan is you; the one who moved the Connecting Sky Black Pillar is also you; and the first on the Heavenly Ascending Ancient Road is you too!"
"Where did you pop out from?"
Jiang Fan muttered in his heart, obviously from my mother’s womb.
Could it be I jumped out of a stone?
"Senior, that Venerate at the end of the Heavenly Ascending Ancient Road also told that the Ancient Token is our Central Earth’s opportunity to change fate."
"So, I didn’t let the Ancient Token get snatched away."
The Red-faced Elder’s face showed a hint of excitent.
Jiang Fan being able to reveal what the Venerate at the end of the Heavenly Ascending Ancient Road had said indicated that he wasn’t lying.
"Quick, let see the Token!"
Jiang Fan thought for a mont and secretly contacted the Little Qilin.
Having it take out the Ancient Token and bury the Heavenly Thunder Stone underground to hide it.
He still needed to be cautious against the elder in front of him.
Quickly.
The Little Qilin ca over with a simple, light-yellow Token in its mouth.
The Red-faced Elder snatched it up and scrutinized it in his palm, his old eyes full of joy:
"It’s truly the Ancient Token!"
"But what did the Demon Mirage’s avatar take?"
Jiang Fan said honestly, "A handful of mory Silver Sand."
"I sensed sothing was wrong ahead of ti and put the real Token into my Space Storage Device, leaving the fake on my person."
"The Demon Mirage’s avatar took the fake and didn’t have ti to examine it closely before being entangled by the Venerate."
"I don’t know what happened afterward."
After being rescued by Fairy Yun Shang, he had fled; he wasn’t clear about the subsequent battle situation.
Learning that the Demon Mirage’s avatar took the mory Silver Sand.
The Red-faced Elder was stunned for a while, then couldn’t help but burst into laughter:
"No wonder, no wonder after the Demon Mirage’s avatar left, it desperately tried to breach the barrier and return."
"So, you tricked him, kid!"
"It laid out such a big sche and was willing to send the Heavenly Ascending Ancient Road to the Central Earth Realm just for the Ancient Token."
"By every calculation, it didn’t anticipate that in our Central Earth World, there would be such a cunning fellow intercepting the Ancient Token."
"Hahaha!"
"If it were , I’d probably be angrier than he is."
Jiang Fan was speechless: "Senior, are you praising or criticizing ?"
The Red-faced Elder looked at Jiang Fan again and found him much more pleasing to the eye.
"You’re a little black rchant, harsh on your own people, but even harsher on outsiders."
"I’ll let this slide."
Jiang Fan had been waiting for this statent.
He was instantly relieved, as if granted amnesty.
Seeing that the Red-faced Elder was in a good mood, his eyes spun, and he lanted:
"It’s just a pity about my box of mory Silver Sand."
"That was my only treasure."
"For the Central Earth World, I’ve sacrificed too much."
Ha!
The Red-faced Elder, experienced and shrewd, imdiately realized that the little black rchant Jiang Fan was looking for so compensation.
"Stop pretending to be poor!"
"To seize the Netherworld Ghost Fire from so many masters, how could you not have so treasures on you?"
"Not to ntion anything else, I just know that little Spiritual Pet of yours isn’t simple."
Jiang Fan laughed sheepishly.
It’s really hard to fool the Venerates.
But he was pleasantly surprised when the Red-faced Elder took out the Holy Fire Order from his sleeve and tossed it back to Jiang Fan.
"Here, take it."
Jiang Fan quickly caught it and said sarcastically, "Thank you, senior, for returning it to its rightful owner."
Let the Venerate in front of him not think of it as a reward to brush off Jiang Fan.
The Red-faced Elder naturally understood, laughing angrily: "Little rascal, you really know how to cater to the audience!"
"Do you really think the old master won’t do anything to you?"
"And you even threw sarcasm at !"
Jiang Fan hurriedly said, "The junior wouldn’t dare."
Actually, he sensed from the beginning that the Venerate in front of him had no malicious intent to kill him.
Otherwise, he could have been obliterated with a wave upon being recognized.
Why bother bringing him back for questioning?
The Venerate rely wanted to teach him a lesson.
Now, with the Ancient Token, the elder didn’t even ntion a word of admonition and returned the Holy Fire Order.
The attitude was self-explanatory.
The Red-faced Elder snorted unhappily, "The Great Sage Demon Mirage was even tricked by you, what wouldn’t you dare?"
"I suspect if you et an Ancient Saint, you’d try to trick them too!"
Jiang Fan waved his hands repeatedly, "I wouldn’t dare, I wouldn’t dare."
"The junior holds deep respect and genuine reverence for the Ancient Saints, never neglecting them..."
Whoosh!
Suddenly.
A bolt of thunder struck from the sky, pierced through the ground, and entered the underground palace.
It hit viciously beside Jiang Fan, scorching a fist-sized hole in the solid ground.
Jiang Fan was stunned.
The Red-faced Elder was stunned too.
He stared wide-eyed, "What, what exactly have you done to the Ancient Saint?"
"To actually make the Ancient Saint rember you?"
There are countless people who complain about the Ancient Saints, but who have they ever acknowledged?
I... I’m being wronged!
Jiang Fan opened his mouth, wanting to vent about the Ancient Saint’s series of injustices against him.
But, to avoid getting struck, he held it back.
Just saying, "This, perhaps is the Ancient Saint’s special affection for ."
The Red-faced Elder snapped back to reality.
He didn’t dare to delve deeper into the topic of the Ancient Saints.
Looking at Jiang Fan, who was just at the Second-stage Nascent Soul.
He flicked his fingers.
A wisp of Qi Force entered Jiang Fan’s abdon.
Imdiately, there was a sharp pain drilling through his heart.
It wasn’t a physical pain, but a sensation originating from the Nascent Soul.
Suddenly.
There was a cracking sound, as the outline of the Third Aperture shattered open.
Jiang Fan quickly checked inside himself, and was overjoyed!
Surging with delight, Jiang Fan bowed and thanked the elder, "Thank you, senior!"
"You’re only thankful after getting a benefit," the Red-faced Elder snorted.
"You wouldn’t give up the hawk without the rabbit!"
Saying so.
He tossed the Ancient Token back at Jiang Fan.
"Here, take it."
Jiang Fan was slightly surprised.
"Given the importance of the Ancient Token," he said after so thought.
"Why not give it to soone more promising?"
"With the Ancient Hunt approaching."
"Won’t soone find you and ask for the Ancient Token to hand it over to soone else anyway?"
Who would find him?
Apart from the Red-faced Elder, who knew the Ancient Token was in his possession?
He shook his head, not wanting to think more about it, and focused on the present, saying, "Senior, you really are a good person."
The Red-faced Elder snorted:
"Nonsense, if it were another Venerate, they would have slapped you into a pulp, you little black rchant!"
The next mont, the Red-faced Elder almost cursed.
Jiang Fan added, "Senior, thank you for returning the item to its rightful owner."
This Venerate in front of him better not think of passing it off as a reward for Jiang Fan.
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