"This—"
Ji Yuan looked at the scrawny old man before him and, for a moment, had no idea what to say.
Become his disciple?
It had all happened too suddenly.
Xu Youxia had crushed that stone, and Partridge Whistle had appeared out of thin air.
Then he had slapped a Spirit Transformation Peak Stage swordsman to death and shattered a rift in the Void with another slap. Barely a moment had passed from start to finish.
Ji Yuan had not even recovered from the shock of seeing everyone frozen in the Void before this mighty Void Realm expert stood before him, shoved the Partridge Armor into his arms, and said he wanted to take him as a disciple.
It had happened too fast for him to process.
Ji Yuan opened his mouth, but swallowed the words on the tip of his tongue.
It was not that he did not want to become his disciple.
Having a Void Realm expert at his back was something countless people would not even dare dream of.
But he had never met Partridge Whistle before.
All the man knew about him was that he was "at the Golden Body Mystic Bone Realm Peak and the Nascent Soul Late Stage, and had come from the Cangluo Continent." Even if Ji Yuan had obtained the Partridge Armor by chance, was this not a little hasty?
Besides, he had too many secrets—the Ninefold Profound Yang Technique and Lingtai Square-Inch Mountain. Either one alone would shake the world if revealed.
Becoming a Void Realm expert's disciple would give him protection, but it also meant his secrets could be laid bare before his master at any moment.
That made him hesitate.
While Ji Yuan wavered, Xu Youxia somehow managed to fly over.
Blood still seeped from the sword wounds across