"Ha ha, kid, are you pulling my leg?"
Shouye was so furious his beard flew up. It was the first time he had ever seen such an outrageously boastful junior.
Even a young hero like Fu Xing became tight-lipped at the mention of Ghost Beasts.
And you were telling him that you had fought a Ghost Beast, battled it, and even sealed it?
What nonsense!
"It's true."
Xu Xiaoshou's expression instead turned strange. "Senior, does that mean you don't believe me?"
Shouye's eyes bulged with rage. "Do you take me for a fool?!"
"If you don't believe me, there's nothing I can do."
Xu Xiaoshou shrugged indifferently. "But surely you're not going to mistake me and my friend for Ghost Beast hosts, right?"
"That wouldn't just be a deviation in your understanding of things. Even your subjective awareness would have some problems."
Fu Xing stood there dumbfounded.
It took him quite a while to realize that Xu Xiaoshou was indirectly admitting that Senior Shouye was an idiot...
Th-this... this audacity...
Brother Shou, you really are my brother!
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Shouye's reaction was even slower. He had done too much fighting and killing, so anything requiring his mind to take a turn had naturally become unfamiliar.
But even so, he could see that the kid before him had quite the temper.
What confidence!
You dared to talk back to me? Shouye sneered. "You said you fought a Ghost Beast? What did it look like? What cultivation did it possess? And by what means did you fight it?"
"A battle of wills?" he mocked.
Xin Gugu, listening from the side, was consumed by worry.
Xu Xiaoshou...
He had bitten off more than he could chew this time!
The old man before them was no ordinary person. How