Good heavens.
He was really tough!
The four from City Lord's Manor were shaken by Xu Xiaoshou's resolve.
This guy was acting far too much like a normal person.
Even though everyone had believed just moments ago that Xu Xiaoshou was unquestionably a Ghost Beast host, his resounding decisiveness made them doubt it inwardly.
Perhaps Shouye had really made a mistake?
Shouye's expression shifted unpredictably.
Xu Xiaoshou's words made sense.
He truly had no way to refute them.
Tonight, his string of interrogations toward this fellow had indeed, without even Shouye himself realizing it, been colored by far too much subjective emotion.
That isn't right. I normally wouldn't act like this!
Why had I changed tonight? Where had the problem arisen?
Shouye was perplexed.
It was one thing that he had been at fault first.
But throughout this entire chain of questions, not a single one of Xu Xiaoshou's answers had been improper.
Before his final refusal, he had even displayed strength sufficient to slay a Throne.
And not just one kind of it! Under such circumstances,
everyone had no choice but to believe that, for a spirit cultivator with such a willingness to perish together with jade and stone, cooperating with the interrogation to this extent was truly already the limit.
Xu Xiaoshou had indeed done exceedingly well.
If they demanded more, they likely would not be able to wring any other result from him.
"'Berserk Giant'?"
Shouye murmured, surprisingly not growing angry.
He understood as well.
If Xu Xiaoshou truly was a Ghost Beast host, and after being questioned to this extent tonight, he still remained watertight,
then there was no point in persisting further.
On one side was a disguise backed by a perfect plan; on the other was only fragmentary intelligence. In a clash between the