"Ten years?"
Xu Xiaoshou's answer was exceptionally decisive.
He raised one finger. Surprisingly, he did not fool around or bring up some third option. He simply chose from the two answers Lei Xier had given him.
"I choose the second."
"But I won't need ten years. One year—perhaps not even a full year—will be enough!"
With that, Xu Xiaoshou turned and left without looking back.
He did not need to explain himself, nor did he need to care what choice Lei Xier would make afterward.
Even Ba Zunan believed in him. What reason did he have not to believe in himself? Even if Lei Xier later chose, like Five Declines of Heaven and Man, to lurk within the darkness, it was simple—he would just kill Five Declines of Heaven and Man.
With his current "Holy Emperor Lv.0"...
Xu Xiaoshou would not claim to be invincible beneath the demi-saint realm, but if a Taixu took one of his whip kicks, they would have to lose half their life, right? Not to mention that a real battle was never turn-based, with one strike from you and one from me.
He could completely unleash all sorts of trump cards, strike from the shadows, and kill someone with a single underhanded blow! Once I entered the Throne realm, my combat power had been multiplying by the hundreds. This was only the beginning!
Xu Xiaoshou sneered as he looked toward the system's red interface.
"Passive Value: 2,072,266."
After spending five hundred thousand Passive Value, he still had over two million left.
If he reserved some for the Dao-Nurturing Field mechanics, Xu Xiaoshou felt that he could still upgrade two more skills.
What should I get?
"Sword Mastery!"
Without needing further thought, Xu Xiaoshou set his sights on Sword Mastery, the mastery-type passive skill, as his