Could such a clumsy provocation really stir Hua Changdeng?
Xu Xiaoshou knew perfectly well that when they had first met in the Cloud Mountain Emperor Realm, perhaps it could have.
But now that Hua Changdeng understood him better, theoretically, it should not have worked.
Yet Xu Xiaoshou still used it.
And the effect was excellent. Hua Changdeng fell for it steadily. Why?—He was merely offering him a step down.
Hua Changdeng had become the head of the Cloud Mountain Emperor Realm. Naturally, he was not stupid.
After perishing and being reborn within the Supreme Slash space, with his understanding, once he familiarized himself with things a little, he should have known what sort of situation he was in.
Leaving aside the Dao-Seizing Tentacle, which itself carried a master-servant contract that made one feel, from the bottom of one's heart, the urge to "take refuge in me, Shou."
The guidance of perfected Way of Will was also ceaselessly making Hua choose a roundabout path of submission, even if, deep down, he had no wish to bow to this junior.
And setting all that aside, could Hua Changdeng fail to realize that if he did not take a certain step down, this Supreme Slash space would become a second Screen-and-Candle Grounds? And this would not be self-imprisonment, where he could leave whenever he wished.
He would be detained, enslaved, with no chance ever to rise again.
Once Xu Xiaoshou became stronger, it was impossible to say what he might do to him through that Dao-Seizing Tentacle.
Those who had already died, then revived once more, generally viewed many things lightly.
But Hua Changdeng was not Dao Qiongchang, nor was he the Devil Ancestor or the Medicine Ancestor. What he cultivated was certainly not the Emotionless Dao.
Far away, there was still a