"So this was the Xu Xiaoshou you had been looking forward to?"
Outside the Time Realm Rift, the Great World Locust Tree's phantom snickered, its canopy rustling as it tilted toward the purple giant eye. "His Way of Space has reached seventy or eighty percent. His Way of Time, fifty or sixty percent. His body, soul, and intent have all undergone Transcendent Dao Transformation—yet they were clearly bestowed by another in an enlightenment initiation. He has only their form and does not know how to wield them. Hua Changdeng's Little Three Talents Sword Formation can seal space but not time; it can restrain swordsmanship but not Transcendent Dao Transformation of body, soul, and intent. The opportunity was handed to him on a silver platter, flaws everywhere, yet Xu Xiaoshou caught none of them. Other than shouting for Ba Zunan's aid, he had no other tricks. Even his vaunted Ancient Sword Way was stretched thin before Hua... Sui Yin, if this is the person you favored, then that giant eye of yours was wasted on you!"
It was not only the Medicine Ancestor. Even the Devil Ancestor, within the coffin beneath the tower, had been amused by Xu Xiaoshou's clownish footwork after his entrance.
Flashing here and there, only to flash straight into Hua Changdeng's net cast over heaven and earth?
As for bananas and eggplants...
That might have worked on the still-green Hua Changdeng.
But no Ancestor God who had truly lived from ancient times until now would take it to heart or be provoked by it! "If the heir of Famous Sword is only this much..."
The Devil Ancestor felt its deduction had been correct. Famous Sword lay not with Xu, but with Ba! Before Xu Xiaoshou emerged, the three Ancestors had even asked through Hua Changdeng who stood