Yang Qing's thoughts soon shifted from the token back to the matter at hand—or rather, the person at hand: Bai Chen's kidnapper.
Of everything he had gathered so far, the most important discovery—though still shallow compared to the others—was one he held onto dearly: whoever had kidnapped Bai Chen and his disciple did not seem like a mindless killer, or someone who took life easily.
From the evidence presented, whether it was Wenling or Xie Han, any cultivator intent on keeping their actions secret would have killed them after extracting whatever they needed. Yet both were still alive. Not only that, it even seemed as though Bai Chen's kidnapper had gone to great lengths to preserve their lives, despite having every reason not to. In a certain sense, they had even been rewarded instead.
