"Something's off!"
"Why was he so fixated on the title 'Ancestor Shou'?"
Inside Zero's mind, the alarm's beeping had never stopped.
Xu Xiaoshou was adept at putting on mystifying airs, concealing his true intentions beneath seemingly absurd words and actions, only to unleash them later.
Dao Qiongchang had already summed up most of that back in his day.
Now, after emerging from the Time Realm, this fellow had first provoked the Four Ancestors, including Zero, who had been quite friendly with him—surely that had been a joke. Xu Xiaoshou would not truly target Zero; Zero could still analyze that much.
Then, imitating the Godslayer Official Sui Yin had impersonated, he had guided the mortals of the Five Domains away while demanding that every cultivator address him as "Ancestor Shou" before they could enter the Apricot Realm.
Up to that point, there had actually been nothing alarming. Zero had not even grown wary.
But after Xu Xiaoshou had brought everyone in, he had demanded face-to-face that Sheng Xin call him "Ancestor Shou." That was deeply thought-provoking.
"Was it merely his twisted sense of humor?"
"Absolutely not!"
Sui Yin had used Ran Ming's mouth to guide high-level cultivators of the Five Domains into the Relics of the Gods in order to conceal his identity.
What Xu Xiaoshou was doing now, however, had to be for the sake of a name—the "name" of the Name Ancestor and the Way of Fame! "Using the self-name spoken from others' mouths as an anchor, employing a Dao similar to that of 'others' to hold onto the 'self'?"
Dao Qiongchang had sealed his Ancestor status precisely through such a method. Naturally, Zero's first instinct was to deduce this possibility.
"Yet the Way of Fame's upper limit is the Name Ancestor."
"The Name Ancestor has already fallen into