Today's fourth update: Chapter 2124! 4/4!
The scene completely dissipated. Xu Kun narrowed his eyes and found himself standing atop a Corpse Mountain Blood Sea.
However, Xu Kun merely curled his lip at it.
A voice came from afar. "It seems my choice back then was not wrong."
Xu Kun looked up and saw a blood-tinged skeleton seated upon a dilapidated throne.
Two clusters of ghostly fire seemed to flicker within its eye sockets.
And before it, two swords were embedded in the ground.
He had reached the final trial this easily?
The master of the relic's test—Xu Kun only wanted to laugh at that.
"What was your choice?" Xu Kun asked.
The skeleton answered, "Are you willing to inherit my path?"
"No." Xu Kun answered bluntly.
Skeleton: ...
No, brother, you...
"Then what are you doing here?"
Xu Kun tapped his glabella. "Didn't you invite me here as a guest?"
Skeleton: ...
It really wanted to complain. That was the mark it had left to choose its own successor, alright?
"Of course, entrusted by another, I must see the task through. I came here to bring some things back for someone else."
"What things?"
Xu Kun gestured with his lips. "Those two swords in front of you."
"You want these two swords?"
"It's not that I want them. I'm taking them back for others."
The skeleton fell silent again, making Xu Kun suspect that it had crashed.
"Do you know the origins of these two swords?"
"Of course. Yuantu and Abi, tied to Old Ancestor Minghe's Asura Path inheritance, right?"
"You are not tempted?"
"Not tempted!"
"You are lying!" the skeleton shouted.
Xu Kun: ...
"If I'm lying, may my son be born without an asshole." Xu Kun was speechless.
"Do you know..."
"Enough with the 'do you