Unsheathed

Chen Ping'an chose to stay in the shrine and practice standing meditation. He remained from late night all the way until sunrise the next morning.

Chen Ping'an opened his eyes.

The two halves of the broken jade hairpin were still on the ground. However, Chen Ping'an didn't touch them from the beginning to the end.

Chen Ping'an stood up and leaped onto the wall before taking his leave from the shrine.

He left the two halves of the jade hairpin — an immortal tool that had lost its spiritual energy — on the ground just like that.

He made his way to Green Cottage Town.

He didn't go to the Old Dragon Cave, a place not guarded by its owner anymore, to search for leftover treasures.

This was naturally because he didn't trust the scholar.

Moreover, the Sea Turning Primordial Lord had already become the scholar's servant, so where exactly had she been when the scholar had returned to the shrine by himself just then? What had she been doing? The answer was extremely evident.

Even if it wasn't necessarily the truth.

Chen Ping'an would also make decisions and act according to the worst-case scenarios in his mind.

However, he suddenly changed his route and started to travel in another direction.