When the black "rainfall" truly descended from the heavens and struck Yan Wuse, no matter how unwilling they were to believe it, everyone had to accept that the Heavenly Secrets Divine Envoy had become Xu Xiaoshou's possession.
"He really knows the Heavenly Secrets Art!"
"How does he know everything?"
"The intel was fucking way off! When I took the Black-Gold Bounty, no one told me Xu Xiaoshou had mastered the Heavenly Secrets Art. They only said he had a slight grasp of spiritual arrays."
"But compared to his other abilities, this is hardly worth mentioning... it wouldn't even fit on the Black-Gold Bounty notice!"
"Brother, did you come to the Eastern Region for the bounty too?"
"You too?"
"Me too..."
"Same here."
"Fuck his grandfather, this is supposed to be strength comparable to cutting the Dao? This is taking my life! Who put out this bounty? They're fucking sick!"
Some also suspected that Xu Xiaoshou's sudden ability to skillfully control the Heavenly Secrets Divine Envoy had come from his earlier breakthrough in enlightenment.
But enlightenment could greatly improve one's attainments in a particular path; no one had ever heard of it taking someone from zero to one.
So, at the end of the day, Xu Xiaoshou definitely had a foundation in the Heavenly Secrets Art.
And judging by how deftly he controlled the Heavenly Secrets Divine Envoy now, his original foundation might not even have been inferior to Situ Yongen's!
Following that line of thought, didn't that make Xu Xiaoshou half the number one on the Dao Department Heaven Rankings? Ah, this...
"Swordsmanship, physical arts, spirit cultivation, alchemy, spiritual arrays, the Heavenly Secrets Art, and the art of killing hearts with words... I've summed it up. He's proficient in every field, and each has reached the summit."
"So, is there