Two Steps, Shattering Everyone's Faith in Ye Xiwen!

"Ye Xiwen, come out. I have come to take your head!" Mu Shengjie flew above Hidden Star Peak, his tone calm, as though he were discussing something utterly irrelevant. In his heart, he had not come to honor an appointment and battle Ye Xiwen; he had merely come to take his head.

Was that arrogant?

Yet no one felt that way. It simply seemed like the natural order of things, did it not?

One was a Great Saint Paragon, while the other was merely at the Late Stage Half-step Great Saint. Was that not only natural?

Everyone thought so, yet for some reason, a faint unease stirred in their hearts.

A figure flew up from Hidden Star Peak. It was none other than Bai Jiansong. Dressed in white robes with a long sword across his back, his bearing remained as elegant as ever.

Even in the face of the imposing Mu Shengjie, he did not lose ground. Though his strength was inferior to Mu Shengjie's, that was only because he had cultivated for too short a time. While he could not compare to Ye Xiwen's rate of progress, he was no slower than Huang Wuji and the others had been back then. Sooner or later, he would stand shoulder to shoulder with Mu Shengjie, and thus he did not fear him.

"Where is Ye Xiwen?" Mu Shengjie merely glanced at Bai Jiansong and spoke indifferently, paying him no mind. Though Bai Jiansong had once been the strongest among a generation of newcomers, there was still an enormous gap between them. Bai Jiansong was not qualified to speak to him as an equal.

"My apologies, but Junior Brother Ye is still in seclusion. I know why you came, but please wait until he leaves seclusion," Bai Jiansong said neither humbly nor