Apart from a trace of warmth toward the Great Sun Sword Son and the Great Sun Patriarch, Yang Gu Heavenly Being possessed an indescribable cold cruelty toward everyone else, enough to make one's heart instinctively turn cold.
It was as though a terrifying Fierce Beast bred within a blazing sun stood before them, ready to choose someone and devour them at any moment.
"Reporting to Senior,"
Ming Guangzi's heart tightened. He said respectfully, "This junior, Ming Guang... Ming Guang, the previous Great Sun Sword Son, was defeated by Jiang... by the Great Sun Sword Son."
The instant he directly spoke the Great Sun Sword Son's name, he keenly sensed a thread of killing intent.
"The previous Great Sun Sword Son?"
"Then why are you still alive?"
Yang Gu Heavenly Being was baffled and deeply puzzled. "I saw the Sword Son. If Dao Integration Cultivators had not joined forces to besiege him, he might even have beaten the Artifact Sect's Inheritance Disciple and those two Inheritance Disciples, Truefire and Mystic Water, to death. How could you possibly still be alive?"
"And even setting that aside, your strength is so weak... the gap is simply far too great!"
"Do you think you can engage him in sword combat?"
He frowned.
Sword cultivators thirsted for killing, yet did not thirst for killing.
Their thirst for killing was aimed at the strong.
Their lack of thirst for killing was aimed at the weak. Sword cultivators were unwilling to slaughter too many, because their swords were unwilling; they felt insulted by it.
And the young man before him was far weaker than an Immortal Cult Inheritance Disciple. He could not stir any killing intent in the heart of an inheritance sword cultivator and had not reached even the minimum standard.
"Because I used an unfair