"Fame?"
Beyond the Time Realm Rift, in the starry sky, atop the crown of the Great World Locust Tree's phantom, that blurred human face spoke with hesitation.
At the Devil Ancestor's abrupt utterance of this single word, the Medicine Ancestor's first reaction was that it could not be as simple as its literal meaning suggested.
The battle at Lingyu Mountain had been fully observed by the three Ancestors.
Though the Time Realm Rift and the Central Region were separated by far more than a hundred thousand miles, the three of Them had yet to completely permeate the Holy Spirit Continent.
Yet each had contingencies in place, and each could keep watch over the frontal battlefield.
"Correct, fame..."
The Devil Ancestor's voice from the coffin beneath the tower had likewise taken on an unusual note.
When It had seen Xu Xiaoshou on the River of Time earlier, It had thought that after passing through generation upon generation, the opportunity of fame had surely fallen to that youth.
Who would have thought Ba Zunan's Dao of Sword Thought had advanced another step, and that he had also borrowed the power of fame—using it with such mastery.
Judging from this alone, in attainments in the Way of Fame, did Ba Zunan seem to surpass Xu Xiaoshou?
"Was my judgment wrong?"
The Devil Ancestor rarely doubted Itself.
Yet based on Its sole direct encounter with Xu Xiaoshou—that is, when Yue Gongqi had struck from afar—
that youth's grasp of fame had indeed only amounted to "a slight understanding or two." He was nowhere near "scaling the peak and reaching the summit."
So the opportunity of fame had not fallen to Xu Xiaoshou, but to Ba Zunan? Xu Xiaoshou's earlier grandstanding across the Five Domains, fishing for praise and peddling his name, had merely been