While chatting with Yibao, he watched the arena matches.
In the end, Xuan had come out slightly ahead. Or rather, he had broken through in the heat of battle, wielding Great Dao Laws and taking a step from Martial Deification to Entering the Dao Through Martial Arts, onto the path of immortality.
This sort of breakthrough in the middle of battle was practically a protagonist's template.
So no one could call it cheating. If they had the skill, why didn't they go pull it off themselves?
When Zhuang conceded defeat wholeheartedly, Xuan threw back his head and let out a long roar, venting the joy in his heart. Then, delightedly, he announced on the spot that he was changing his name from "Xuan" to "Zhenwu."
That move nearly made Yibao fall off Wu Chu's shoulder.
Zhenwu?!
He really dared to take that name!
Wu Chu reached out to steady Yibao, his thoughts drifting to the future True Martial Demon-Suppressing Emperor.
But in the myths and legends he knew, the True Martial Emperor was an incarnation of the Black Tortoise! That Black Tortoise was indeed formidable, but there should still be a difference between a black tortoise and the Black Tortoise, right?
There also seemed to be no tale in Primordial World mythology of the Black Tortoise reincarnating as the True Martial Emperor.
Could it simply be a coincidence of names?
Come to think of it, when had the Demon-Suppressing Lord, the True Martial Emperor, become a god?
Wu Chu truly did not know much about him. After all, he was not part of the Investiture of the Gods system, though by the time of Journey to the West, he was already one of the Four Northern Emperors. Wu Chu could only have Yibao search through the excerpts he had read