Xu Xiaoshou? How could it be Xu Xiaoshou? Impossible!!!
Shouye's eyes nearly popped out of their sockets.
He could accept that the ice-element ability containing the power of the Frozen Calamity had come from that sealed Ghost Beast which had walked out of the White Cavern.
But he absolutely could not accept that this sealed Ghost Beast's accomplice...
Xu Xiaoshou? "How could it be Xu Xiaoshou?!"
Shouye broke down.
If Xu Xiaoshou was the sealed Ghost Beast's accomplice...
Then what was he, Shouye? From their first encounter at Tiansang City's City Lord's Manor, to the moment the Flower Sea exploded, to the repeated questioning after the domain shattered, and even the famous sword Yanmang he had given him after entering the White Cavern...
Scene after scene.
Frame after frame.
Like a film fast-forwarding, every image flashed through his mind at the speed of light.
Shouye's entire body trembled.
He felt that, because of how the subsequent events at the City Lord's Manor had unfolded, he had forgotten a crucial piece of information.
"Ghost Beast aura!"
Returning to the very first scene where the two had come into contact.
How had he first set his sights on Xu Xiaoshou?
That was right!
It was because, from one of his friends, he had seemingly smelled a stench incredibly similar to that of a Ghost Beast.
The kind that was almost stinky, yet not quite.
He had been questioning him at the time, but Xu Xiaoshou's appearance had interrupted his train of thought. Then, after Xu Xiaoshou's verbal maneuvering, it seemed everyone had forgotten about it.
And.
Thinking back now, when he had first met Xu Xiaoshou...
It seemed he had also smelled an aura on this fellow...
"The stench of a Ghost Beast!"
Xu Xiaoshou's later explanation had been that he had