To the ascension path of a man who was already half a step into supremacy and had just looked at Wang Chen's face with the specific expression of someone who has found the thing they were looking for.
Wang Chen breathed once.
Carefully.
And began, with the full, focused application of everything the afternoon and the Thief Saint's lineage and a mortal-level cultivator's very good reasons for caution had given him, to think very quickly about what came next.
Key to my ascension path.
The words refused to assemble themselves into a single, clean meaning.
