Chapter 337: Chapter 276: The Relics of Lin Hua’s Legend

According to Liou Wenxin, the number on the back of a Token represented its owner’s number in the Lin Hua Army. The smaller the number, the earlier they had joined.

The number on the back of Su Ze’s Token was "27," but since Mr. Ke’s was facing outwards, Su Ze couldn’t see the number on its back.

However, he didn’t use his upgraded Perception Tentacles to look at the number on the back of the Token. ’Mr. Ke is clearly very protective of these things. Who knows if this would offend him.’

After a moment’s thought, Su Ze took the number "27" Token from his Storage Pendant.

At first, Su Ze hadn’t paid much mind to the Token. But it had played a crucial role during his last trial with the Divine Dice, demonstrating a hardness that far surpassed a third-order wondrous object. Only then did he begin to take it seriously.

However, despite studying it repeatedly, Su Ze hadn’t discovered any special properties besides its incredible hardness.

’I might as well take it out and ask Mr. Ke about it,’ he thought. ’He’ll probably be interested in this.’

Sure enough, the moment Su Ze took out the Token, Mr. Ke, who had been dozing with his eyes closed, suddenly opened them. He slowly turned his head to look, and in the next instant, he struggled up from his chair and staggered toward Su Ze.

Chen Suifeng was startled by Mr. Ke’s actions. ’What on earth could make Mr. Ke react like this?’

His gaze fell upon the Token in Su Ze’s hand. He looked surprised at first, but then a look of realization dawned on his face. He quickly moved to support Mr. Ke, helping the old man over to Su Ze.

Mr. Ke’s eyes remained glued to the Token in Su Ze’s hand. Seeing this, Su Ze offered the Token to Mr. Ke with both hands.

He hadn’t expected Mr. Ke to have such a strong reaction to the Token.

With trembling hands, Mr. Ke accepted the Token. His fingers traced the birch leaf pattern on its surface before he flipped it over. His cloudy eyes stared intently at the number "27" as he murmured, "It really is... her!"

"Mr. Ke, please calm down. Sit and take your time," Chen Suifeng said, bringing a chair over and helping the old man sit back down.

Mr. Ke didn’t speak aloud. Instead, he used Spiritual Transmission to ask, "Young man, where did you get this Token?"

Su Ze recounted how he had found the Storage Pendant at the bottom of the Thousand Heroes Tomb. He then took the pendant from around his neck and placed it before Mr. Ke.

The pendant had originally been a Storage Ear Pendant, but Su Ze had modified it.

Mr. Ke examined the pendant carefully, then sighed and sent a Spiritual Transmission. "Yes, this is the token of affection the Marshal gave her all those years ago."

’Marshal? A token of affection?’

Su Ze and Chen Suifeng exchanged a glance.

Chen Suifeng knew that the only person Ke Xiuyuan would ever call "Marshal" was the great commander of the Lin Hua Army, Lin Hua’s Legend himself!

A thought struck him, and he exclaimed, "Mr. Ke, are you saying this is the token of affection that Lin Hua’s Legend gave to General Qiu?"

"I and a group of my old comrades-in-arms witnessed their wedding on the battlefield. How could I possibly be mistaken?" Mr. Ke stated. "And then there’s this Token. General Qiu Tingyun was the 27th member of the Lin Hua Army."

Su Ze looked bewildered. He felt like he understood parts of it, but not the whole picture.

’So the Storage Ear Pendant I found in the Thousand Heroes Tomb was actually a token of affection that Lin Hua’s Legend gave to the woman he loved?’

’And this woman he loved was also an early member of the Lin Hua Army—a female general?’

Su Ze turned to look at the group photo behind him. He saw the valiant-looking woman standing beside Lin Hua’s Legend... ’This must be the General Qiu Tingyun Mr. Ke mentioned.’

’So this Storage Ear Pendant and the Token inside it have such an incredible history!’

But... Su Ze took a closer look at the other group photos. General Qiu Tingyun’s figure didn’t appear in any of the later ones. In the photos without her, Lin Hua’s Legend’s expression always seemed particularly grim.

Seeing Su Ze’s confused expression, Chen Suifeng explained, "Lin Hua’s Legend and General Qiu Tingyun were married on the battlefield. They had a son and a daughter. General Qiu Tingyun threw herself back into the fighting immediately after giving birth. She eventually went missing during a mission, and her fate remains unknown.

"Lin Hua’s Legend never gave up the search for General Qiu, but he never found any clues. He raised their children by himself and never remarried."

"Then the Lin Family of today..."

"Correct." Chen Suifeng nodded. "The current Lin Family is descended directly from the son of Lin Hua’s Legend and General Qiu."

’So the Token and Storage Ear Pendant I found are relics of the Lin Family’s ancestors...’ A thought occurred to Su Ze. ’The Lin Family must really want these two items back.’

Mr. Ke, who had been silent and lost in thought, finally sent another Spiritual Transmission. "Let the three people outside come in."

Chen Suifeng also knew these two items were of immense significance to the Lin Family. He opened the door and called in Lin Tiannan, Lin Yutong, and Lin Luo, who were waiting in the courtyard.

When they saw the number 27 Token, all three members of the Lin Family lost their composure, their faces a mixture of shock and elation.

Su Ze was a bit baffled. ’Even if the Token has great sentimental value, is it really cause for this much excitement?’

"Mr. Ke, are you certain this Token is authentic?" Lin Tiannan asked eagerly.

Mr. Ke replied via Spiritual Transmission, "At its peak, the Lin Hua Army numbered in the hundreds of thousands, and every soldier had their own identification Token. But only the tokens of the first one hundred members were forged from the sixth-order ores, Earth Core Iron and Frozen Soul Silver. They cannot be faked."

This was the first Su Ze had heard of it. ’So the Token was forged from two types of sixth-order metals! No wonder it’s indestructible!’