It was merely waiting for a future moment to be awakened.
When deploying his elite Dark Night operatives, Qin Lan had given special instructions to those heading northwest, commanding them to assist the ancient kingdom of Loulan. In exchange for this, the Chiyou Sword was to remain sealed within the ancient kingdom, awaiting the day when someone bearing a Dark Night token would come to claim it. That person was to be Feiyan, the successor of the Sword Demon.
Upon learning all of this, Feiyan was filled with terror. She had never imagined that more than a decade ago, Qin Lan had already laid out this grand strategy, quietly waiting for her to reach the necessary level of cultivation to retrieve the sword from the ancient kingdom.
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