"Y-you actually... destroyed the Fire Qilin Sword!"
Di Shitian turned around with difficulty and managed to force the words from his throat. His hoarse voice made it hard not to suspect that his vocal cords had been damaged. The skin exposed beneath his shattered ice mask was incredibly old.
"Xu Fu, you useless old fool. You look surprised!"
In full view of everyone, Gu Sheng threw away the Fire Qilin Sword, which had carried the Duan Family's legacy for centuries, as casually as if he were tossing out trash. Everyone looked as though they had seen a ghost, shocked both by Gu Sheng's words and by his actions.
Duan Lang was a legendary sword fanatic, one of the Three Poisons of the Sword when the Peerless Sword first appeared. He had even abandoned the far more powerful Peerless Sword for the Fire Qilin Sword. Yet now, he had personally destroyed the Fire Qilin Sword. It was truly inconceivable.
Whispering Wind, Cloudwalker, and Luo Xian were even more stunned. They had been completely shocked by Gu Sheng's words. What had he just said? Xu Fu—Di Shitian was actually Senior Xu Fu?
Luo Xian was utterly terrified. She had openly expressed her genuine dissatisfaction with Di Shitian in front of Xu Fu. Didn't that mean that Di Shitian knew all her thoughts? Judging by how he had dealt with Duan Lang earlier, her own fate...
"How... cough, cough... did you know?"
Di Shitian was truly shocked to the extreme this time. Those who knew that Xu Fu and Di Shitian were the same person were basically all dead. He had never told anyone about his division into two identities this time—not even his Direct Disciple, Divine Mother Luo Xian, knew the truth. So how had Duan Lang found out?
"Was it really