"Why did you choose me?" Lin Bai asked.
"Because I feel that you and Ye Jinghong are very alike!" Dugu Yun replied.
"Not just alike—it's as if Ye Jinghong had been reincarnated."
"Lin Bai, after we parted at Famous Sword Manor that day, I investigated you!"
"You were born in Spirit Rhino City of the Divine Martial Nation. When you awakened your martial soul, you were betrayed by your childhood sweetheart, but in the end, you defied the heavens and rose upward. You became the first-place winner of the Four Great Sects Tournament in Spirit Rhino City and joined the Spirit Sword Sect!"
"You were also the top-ranked disciple in the Spirit Sword Sect's outer-sect assessment!"
"On the Cliff of No Return, you fought hundreds of members of the Divine Alliance in a bloody battle!"
"At the East Ridge's Premier Sword Cultivator Tournament, among Feng Yunxiu, Ye Jianqiu, Jian Ruohan, and the eighteen famous swordsmen of Famous Sword Manor, you should have been the most inconspicuous of them all."
"To put it harshly, at the East Ridge's Premier Sword Cultivator Tournament, with a Yellow Rank One martial soul, you should not even have been able to enter Sword Assembly City!"
"But you did it—you entered Sword Assembly City!"
"And you even seized the title of East Ridge's Premier Sword Cultivator!"
"At the time, I couldn't even imagine how someone with a Yellow Rank One martial soul had managed to emerge from this sea of geniuses."
"Lin Bai, do you know what I was thinking when I saw you become East Ridge's Premier Sword Cultivator?"
Dugu Yun looked at Lin Bai and spoke earnestly.
Lin Bai shook his head slightly.
"I was wondering whether your name should actually be Ye Jinghong!"
"Had that legendary sword cultivator who was invincible across Divine