"Hehe, you mean Void Island?"
On the other end of the communication bead, Ba Zunan chuckled twice. Clearly, he did not hold Xu Xiaoshou's careless words against him and simply laid things out plainly.
"Yes!"
Xu Xiaoshou hurriedly gathered his thoughts and returned to the matter at hand. "With the defenses redeployed to the Royal City, there must be gaps in the guards over at the Yunlun Mountain Range right now. Isn't Void Island about to descend upon the Yunlun Mountain Range? This is an opportunity!"
Ba Zunan said, "Who told you Void Island would descend upon the Yunlun Mountain Range?"
Xu Xiaoshou was stunned for a moment. "It isn't?"
"There is no certainty in this matter. Until that moment arrives, even I do not know where Void Island will ultimately land," Ba Zunan said.
Xu Xiaoshou did not understand. "Then why has the Holy Spirit Hall gone to such great lengths to deploy defenses at the Yunlun Mountain Range? What are they after?"
Ba Zunan said, "It is merely more likely that Void Island will descend there."
Xu Xiaoshou said, "..."
He hesitated for quite a while before offering another constructive suggestion. "Then while the Yunlun Mountain Range is unguarded at such a critical time, why not directly summon Void Island there? Wouldn't that settle everything once and for all?"
Ba Zunan said, "Do you take me for a god?"
Xu Xiaoshou said, "..."
Weren't you?
Hadn't you always acted as though there was nothing you could not do?
And now you were saying you couldn't? He began to question it, and their exchange began to speed up.
Xu Xiaoshou said, "Do the Black-and-White Branches not all revere you?"
Ba Zunan said, "But Void Island does not revere me."
Xu Xiaoshou said, "Then what are you waiting for? Where