"Trying to run?"
"Can't beat me, so you want to slip away?"
Xu Xiaoshou's reaction speed was terrifyingly fast now.
Almost the instant Yu Lingdi moved and exploded into spray, he understood his opponent's intent.
—Merge into the Deep Sea, cross space, and head to Jiang Buyi's tribulation site!
"Yu Lingdi has a Subdimensional Door. If he can cut off Night Owl's Saint Tribulation, he can naturally cut off Jiang Buyi's as well."
"And he has Void General Sin... If he really gets over there, it'll be two Saints against two Saints. Things will instead become evenly matched."
"But that shouldn't be!"
"Jiang Buyi and the Holy Spirit Hall were never on the same side. What made Yu Lingdi so certain that helping Jiang Buyi cut off his Saint Tribulation would earn him Jiang Buyi's aid?"
Xu Xiaoshou had long noticed Jiang Buyi's Saint Tribulation in the distance.
But he had never taken it to heart, because beneath Solitary Sound Cliff, in the Deep Sea, he had smeared Jiang Buyi's name.
Things like harboring ulterior motives and coveting the Holy Emperor's throne.
He had even dragged Situ Yongen in as a witness. That mud shouldn't have been so easy to wash off, should it? And even if the Holy Spirit Hall no longer believed the slander, there was no reason for them to cooperate with Jiang Buyi so quickly! When had they ever been in close contact? "Something's definitely fishy!"
Hearing the absolute certainty in Yu Lingdi's tone that Jiang Buyi would help him, Xu Xiaoshou analyzed it at once.
Perhaps Old Jiang already had some weakness in Yu Lingdi's hands.
Maybe all of this had happened while Xu Xiaoshou was absent, breaking through outside the First Hall of Sin.
After all, Jiang Buyi had become entangled with the dual