Hua Changdeng had never seen such a shameless Ancient Sword Arts cultivator.
He had meant to leave Xu Xiaoshou with a final message, yet that fellow had seized upon that instant of softness in his heart and escaped! Before leaving, he had even splashed a bucket of filth onto Qian Shi's Dao Qiongchang.
Hua Changdeng did not know how Xu Xiaoshou had learned the "Heavenly Secrets Thirty-Six Forms: Great God Descent Technique."
Nor had he managed to immediately detect where Xu Xiaoshou had fled after using that technique.
"Guidance, oblivion, memory..."
The traces of these three paths coexisted. At their root, they could be summed up in a single word: intent.
Unfortunately, intent was not Hua Changdeng's forte.
In cultivating the Intent Ghost of the Sword Ghost, he had cultivated only intent's offensive aspect, which was sufficient for frontal combat.
But when it came to intent's trickery and its devious intricacies, he was truly no match for that sneaky little rat who hid its head and showed its tail.
Yet failing to puzzle it out did not matter.
The one thing Hua Changdeng knew was that Dao Qiongchang would not dare stir up trouble so brazenly in the Cloud Mountain Emperor Realm and become his enemy.
Thus, when he surveyed the entire Cloud Mountain Emperor Realm in search of abnormalities and finally found a trace of Ancient Sword Arts near the Yunshan Sacred Hall—
Hua Changdeng knew that little rat must have switched places with him and run to the main hall.
He rushed back without stopping.
Yet after landing, not only were the elders behaving strangely, even that one word—"again"—was baffling.
Even the entrance to the main hall gave him a peculiar feeling...
"Empty... as though something's missing?"
Hua Changdeng did not dwell on it. After forcibly summoning the