A breakthrough error.
It was not only Situ Yongen who realized it.
Everyone inside and outside the arena, seeing Xu Xiaoshou's state after breaking through to Master, had mostly reached the same conclusion.
After all, ordinary Masters were fundamentally unable to restrain the aura of their Dao Rhythm immediately after a breakthrough.
Much less someone like Xu Xiaoshou, who had returned to simplicity so thoroughly that it looked as though someone had forcibly stripped away every trace of Dao Rhythm from his body.
To achieve this meant that Xu Xiaoshou had not returned to simplicity at all. He had only received the bad news of "returning and reverting," without attaining the higher state of "simplicity and truth."
The Scruffy Uncle dropped beside Xu Xiaoshou in a flash and asked gravely, "Did something go wrong with your breakthrough?"
He was using voice transmission.
Xu Xiaoshou was rather confused when he heard that.
What did he mean? But in an instant, he understood.
This breakthrough to Master, because the Passive System had swallowed his Dao Rhythm aura and one million, had created the false impression that he had forcibly broken through.
Coupled with his previous reactions to the "price-hike frenzy," this had led outsiders to misunderstand...
Xu Xiaoshou immediately wanted to reply that there was no problem, to put the uncle, Storyteller, and the others at ease.
But then he reconsidered.
He was currently using Xu Xiaoshou's identity.
There was also a Young Master Xu at the trade fair.
The East Heavenly King City trial could not be entered with Master-level cultivation.
Elder Sang's request, Ba Zunan's mission...
And so on, and so forth!
So many things!
Whether he could blaze another path at the very end amid this chaotic mix of fish and dragons—a path that none of the masterminds behind