"Rest assured, I didn't tamper with anything while treating your Dao Injury!"
Xu Ying's gaze was sharp, and although his voice was not loud, it rang in the Sacred Ancestor's ears like thunder. "Sacred Ancestor, I need you at your peak—to draw out all my potential, push my cultivation and Dao attainment to a higher height, and face the Dao Sovereign!"
The Sacred Ancestor's expression shifted slightly, but he did not examine the place where he had originally been injured. Instead, he smiled and said, "Daoist Xu is indeed upright and aboveboard. I believe you didn't tamper with anything."
Xu Ying changed tack. "However, I did tamper with something."
The Sacred Ancestor let out an "Oh," curiosity appearing on his face.
Xu Ying said, "When I studied your Dao Injury, I wasn't studying the Dao Sovereign's Dao techniques. I was studying you—studying your Nirvana Great Dao. Your Dao Injury contains a struggle between your Nirvana Great Dao and the Dao Sovereign's Dao techniques. It was enough for me to see many secrets."
The Sacred Ancestor did not take it to heart. Smiling, he said, "How much could you possibly have seen from half a year of observation? Just by relying on the Primordial Tribulation Scripture I passed on to you? That was only a fragment I transmitted to you. Don't think you learned much of the true art."
Xu Ying said, "That's why True Lord Daoji and I spent more than three thousand years painstakingly studying it, striving to complete your Primordial Tribulation Scripture."
The Sacred Ancestor was slightly taken aback, and the face on his back turned toward True Lord Daoji.
True Lord Daoji sat on a lingzhi leaf in the distance and saluted from afar.
The Sacred Ancestor smiled without smiling. "With only the two of you, at