"Teacher!"
"You're Teacher, aren't you?!"
Xiuyuan Ke gulped for a while before finally managing to speak. "Ba Zunan would replace me for a hundred generations... I personally witnessed those words come from your mouth, Teacher. Then you must be Teacher, without a doubt!"
Earlier, Xiuyuan Ke had thought the person before him was disguised as his senior brother.
But after seeing the Saint Emperor's Golden Edict, the phenomenon across the Five Domains, and those proclamations that seemed to swallow mountains and rivers, no matter how foolish he was, he had realized the truth.
Someone at this level was not someone his senior brother could become.
Xiuyuan Ke vaguely remembered that, back in Moon-Joining Immortal City, his senior brother had said they might encounter Teacher during this operation. That was why he had decisively joined.
Yet he had never imagined that their meeting would come so quickly.
He had only just arrived at Solitary Sound Cliff when he happened to witness Teacher's immediate declaration to the Five Domains that he had returned.
To a "fanatical worshipper of the Eighth Sword Immortal," this was no different from Lord Ye, who loved dragons, meeting a real dragon, or a devout believer witnessing a divine miracle.
It was simply...
Like a dream, like an illusion!
Ba Zunan, standing to one side, was still bewildered.
Teacher?
When had I taken in some unfamiliar disciple?
Could this guy be Xu Xiaoshou in disguise too?
"It's me..."
Seeing Teacher's confusion, Xiuyuan Ke pointed at himself and declared heavily:
"I, Xiuyuan Ke, am a sword cultivator from Moon-Joining Immortal City!
"My senior brother taught me all nine great sword techniques. He also told me that only after meeting Teacher and receiving your approval would I qualify to cultivate Sword Thought."
This...
Cen Qiaofu and Water Ghost immediately wore