Chapitre 561: Beckoned

"You still remember," spoke the Black Merchant.

"Of course, no one would give a treasure like that brush for so little money, then disappear as if they had fulfilled their goal. You struck me as someone of interest, but I never would have figured out that you'd be someone from the Beyond," I said.

"Oh, how did you come to that conclusion?" he asked

"Your Qi, or lack of it," I said.

"I could be hiding it," he said.

"That would have been a good argument if I wasn't at the Emperor Level, and if you're able to hide it from me while I'm at the Emperor Rank, you're higher level than me. And thus you shouldn't be here…"

"I could be using a treasure, after all, I've given you a heavenly treasure before," he said.

"More reasons to think you're otherworldly, since the brush you've given me, the materials it's made of, I've yet to even encounter them," I said as I continued assembling the shattered fragments of the Keys.