A strike imbued with the righteous grandeur of Taixu power erupted with a boom before anyone could react.
For Shouye, this counted as a fierce release after being suppressed to the very limit.
From accidentally catching the scent of a Ghost Beast at the gates of Tiansang City's City Lord's Manor, to Xu Xiaoshou's unexpected appearance, Shouye had let Xin Gugu go...
From the accidental incident in the City Lord's Manor's rear garden—that Flower Sea—where Shouye sensed the Ghost Beast's power, to Xu Xiaoshou's unexpected appearance, Shouye had been deceived by honeyed words and believed Xu Xiaoshou was the great hero who had slain the Ghost Beast...
From Yanmang's emergence in White Cavern, when Shouye detected it at once and then unexpectedly encountered Xu Xiaoshou again, he had finally developed the intention to recruit him, even offering up ownership of the famed sword Yanmang for it...
From Sword-Severing Prairie in White Cavern, where Shouye had experienced the terrifying damage Saint Slave Wuxiu—the Xu Xiaoshou who had rejected his olive branch—had inflicted upon everyone's minds and bodies...
From the moment the White Cavern World shattered, when Shouye once again caught Xu Xiaoshou's true body and had been just a hair away from arresting him, only for Xu Xiaoshou, who had grown so quickly, to escape through Vanishing Art, teleportation, and other skills...
There had been too many accidents! Too many coincidences! After all this, Shouye could no longer remember how many times Xu Xiaoshou had toyed with him.
He understood that their positions differed, and that perhaps he would never again be able to truly take the genius Xu Xiaoshou of his heart under his wing.
So now! When Xu Xiaoshou once again tried to become someone else and even dared to beguile Sword Immortal Rao and the hundred or so