Chapter 697 - 380: Déjà Vu (Part 3)

Why had He Tou said that their only chance to save the world would come when it fell into chaos, completely consumed by natural disasters?

"Enough!"

Life Crane’s sudden roar cut He Tou off. He then turned to glare at Yang An with an icy gaze.

’Why is he looking at me? It’s not like I’m the one who made him angry.’

Yang An averted his gaze and lowered his head slightly, like a student who’d been caught sleeping in class by a piece of chalk thrown by the teacher. A bad feeling suddenly welled up inside him.

"The Command Tokens from the Great Virtue Temple and the Golden Soul Sect are in your possession, aren’t they?"

Life Crane asked coldly.

"Master, you wish to stop the Four Domains from entering the Central Continent. I understand the stakes, so after I destroyed the Great Virtue Temple and killed Non-Birth, I secured the Command Tokens to prevent them from falling into the wrong hands. I was just about to present them to you."

As if he had long been prepared for this, Yang An took the two Command Tokens from his robes, offering them to Life Crane with both hands.

’I knew I couldn’t hide it from him.’ Back in Nirvana City, when he received the summons from Life Crane, he had already devised a plan.

If Life Crane hadn’t brought it up, he would have kept the Command Tokens and waited for the right opportunity. However, since there was no chance to collect the rest of them, he might as well just hand them over.

When Yang An first obtained the Command Tokens, he had considered giving them to the Workshop Master, whose goal was also to acquire the one belonging to the Golden Soul Sect. In the end, however, Yang An decided against it.

All the Command Tokens were needed to enter the Central Continent, and Life Crane was trying to stop anyone from doing so. No matter how he looked at it, the half-token from the Golden Thread Pavilion was crucial. Ultimately, he would still need to get that half-token from Life Crane.

’If he did that, and the Command Tokens he’d obtained appeared in the Workshop Master’s hands, that old bastard Life Crane would definitely get suspicious.’

’The old man is like a ferocious cat. If you want to keep him happy and calm, you have to pet him with the grain. Go against it, and there’s no telling what he might do.’

Besides, after learning that the old man’s Cultivation Level was already at the Immortal Platform, Yang An felt the Workshop Master’s chances of entering the Central Continent were dwindling. So, in the end, he chose not to take the risk.

But to Yang An’s surprise, after he presented the two Command Tokens, Life Crane didn’t take them. Instead, he tossed something from his own hand, and it landed in Yang An’s.

As an information box appeared before his eyes, Yang An was stunned to find an additional Command Token in his hand. It was the very one owned by the Golden Thread Pavilion—the Command Token named "Left Ear"!

The moment the "Left Ear" and "Right Ear" Command Tokens touched, it was as if countless veins and arteries extended from them, fusing the two tokens completely. In the end, they formed a small, delicate human face that gave Yang An a sense of déjà vu.

’This face... why does it look so familiar?’

Yang An’s gaze lingered on the half-palm-sized token. The face it had formed had no eyes; its sockets were hollow. The other Command Token, the one that looked like hair, hadn’t fused with it.

Judging purely by its features, the face appeared to be that of a woman—a young woman, at that.

The more Yang An stared, the more certain he became that he had seen it somewhere before. Countless faces he had known flashed through his mind as he compared them one by one to the token.

Then, the blurry face of someone he hadn’t seen in a very long time surfaced in his memory. When he looked back at the Command Token in his hand, it was as if a bolt of lightning had struck his heart, leaving thunder rumbling in its wake.

He remembered.

That face... was Pan Yu’s!