Hearing Ghostly Whispers

Taken literally, "truth" meant careful, earnest attention.

Combined with "listening," Truth-Listening meant listening closely.

Besides that, Truth-Listening was also the name of a mythical beast.

Of course, Xie An did not believe the talent would turn him into a beast. It should be an ability that enhanced his hearing.

Since it was a talent, it surely would not be as simple as making his hearing sharper. There might well be a great surprise in store.

Killing Su Hongxiu had triggered nothing, but after he killed Hua Qianxiong... he had fulfilled the conditions for evolving his talent.

It seemed talents worked differently from martial arts.

With enough computational power and a few reference samples, martial arts could be extrapolated, evolved, modified, and merged.

Talents, however, could only be acquired and evolved under special conditions...

"Ten Thousand Questions, estimate the blood and qi computational power needed to evolve Qi-Gazing."

[Estimating...]

[Estimate complete: evolving Qi-Gazing requires 2.5 units of blood and qi]

Within reach.

Xie An did not evolve it on the spot.

Expending too much blood and qi at once would leave his body weakened for a while. He did not trust Chen Tieniang.

Xie An left without betraying anything. Once he had gone some distance, he heard faint sobbing behind him. Turning back, he saw Chen Tieniang kneeling on the ground, gathering Hua Qianxiong's remains.

Xie An knew Chen Tieniang had always valued loyalty and affection. Though she had avenged her husband's murder and the slaughter of his household, the enemy had been her own revered master. Grief and fury overwhelmed her, leaving her unable to control herself.

After walking several miles along the mountain path, he approached the spot at the foot of the mountain where he had tethered his horse.

Only then did Xie An find a