Xu Xiaoshou had ambitions.
But when a person was still insignificant, openly admitting their ambitions brought no good at all. At most, it earned them a "reaching too high" and immediate suppression.
Now, things were different.
When Frost Lord, a Ghost Beast at the level of a demi-saint, truly bowed at his feet and swore that he would devote his life to Chen Tan alone, never again obeying anyone else—not even Divine Prison Azure Stone or Ba Zunan—
Xu Xiaoshou found it hard to put his current feelings into words.
I'm finally going to make it...
After enduring for so long, Xu Xiaoshou had cautiously tended his own little schemes amid the chaotic grand game. Now, he felt that there were finally signs of seeing daylight after all that suffering.
First Pavilion Under Heaven had been an attempt. There, he had first come to know Mr. Siren, and had also received Mo Mo and Xin Gugu's help.
The latter two represented, respectively, the Black Lineage faction of Void Island's Inner Island. Leaving everything else aside, the four words "Sealing-Heaven Saint Emperor" alone represented everything.
Behind Xin Gugu stood Greed God and Grey Palace of the Xu Moon, a colossal force Xu Xiaoshou wanted to contact but did not yet quite dare to approach.
Even if most of these allies had been formed by borrowing Ba Zunan's influence.
But Ba Zunan was using Xu Xiaoshou; when had Xu Xiaoshou not been using Ba Zunan? Whenever he encountered a major upheaval and was about to lose control of the situation, all he had to do was bring Ba Zunan out, and every faction's attention would shift away.
Not to mention anything else—when First Pavilion Under Heaven had first appeared, how many rounds of investigation had it faced? Xu Xiaoshou knew perfectly well!