More Important Than Anyone Imagined

"Was that boy using our Xiao Household's Gale Step just now?"

"But our Xiao Household's Gale Step can't support close-quarters fighting at all. How could he... That boy seemed to have pulled it off."

Uncle Ming kept his eyes fixed on the platform without blinking. There was an odd catch in his voice, as though he were swallowing hard.

"That boy was indeed using our Xiao Household's Gale Step," Uncle Hua said, picking up the thread. He had watched closely, and his eyes had never left the platform either.

Everyone there to watch had their eyes trained on the platform. Among the Lineage's younger members gathered around it, quite a few had reached the External Force level.

Some of the Lineage's young women had also slipped over for a look.

They covered their mouths in shock, hardly able to believe what they had seen.

A quick-witted few caught on and hurried toward the residences in a fluster.

"Why are you running?" one of the women who had come with them called after a fleeing companion.

The woman answered urgently as she ran:

"I'm going to tell my lady. This man might truly be extraordinary. How could she let such a talent slip away?"

The woman who had asked caught on at once. She slapped her thigh with an "Oh!" and took off too, racing toward her own lady's residence.

"But our Xiao Household's Gale Step simply can't be used for close-quarters fighting the way that boy used it. If it could, our Gale Step would rise several levels."

Uncle Tian still could not believe it. Doubt colored his voice.

Uncle Ming let out a long sigh, his breath almost forming a white column.

"Tian, you may not know this, but when our ancestors first created Gale Step, they didn't intend