Vanishing, teleportation, sword summoning...
He had used the explosive source seed to deceive the eye, Situ Yongen as a hidden hostage, and unleashed a sword strike long planned...
This sword must also have accumulated all manner of power while in the vanished state...
That arm deserved to be severed!
It had been severed beautifully—a ringing alarm bell! Number Two was utterly stunned by Xu Xiaoshou's sword.
He finally understood why, in the past, every operation the Holy Spirit Hall had launched against Saint Slave Xu Xiaoshou had ended in failure.
This person was far too deceptive!
Young, with a low cultivation level.
Yet he possessed conspicuous highlights—his excessively powerful physique, the extraordinarily high grade of the famous sword he wielded, and so on and so forth.
Those highlights made people wary of him.
But no one would treat him as an opponent of the same level from their very first encounter, because he was also so weak.
Weak in every sense—weak enough that he could never possibly surpass them!
Yet under Xu Xiaoshou's whirring mind, those weaknesses had been turned from flaws into weapons.
The sharpest weapon—showing weakness to others, using wisdom to win!
"I underestimated him."
Number Two admitted that he had underestimated Xu Xiaoshou, in every possible way.
Just like the battle before him, from the beginning until his arm was severed, Number Two had never truly taken Xu Xiaoshou to heart.
He had probed every one of Xu Xiaoshou's strengths and found that, even combined, they offered no path to victory.
But only now did Number Two realize the true brilliance hidden beneath Xu Xiaoshou's illusory highlights.
His way of thinking!
"He possesses the mindset of one who commands the chessboard. He can make use of the entire situation, even his opponent's actions, and turn them into