Seeing Big Brother remain silent, Third Brother and Second Brother looked at him again in unison. Second Brother frowned. "Big Brother, are we just going to let him cultivate here?"
Big Brother shook his head. "He understood Master's Cultivation Notes perfectly. He has some talent for the Sword Dao, so let him keep cultivating. But as for becoming our master..."
"Other than Master, no one can make us submit. Besides, this fellow is just a lowly Warrior at True Martial Realm Ninth Layer Peak..."
Second Brother opened his mouth, then hesitated.
Third Brother was far more blunt. "Big Brother, I think we should throw him out."
"Of course." For once, Big Brother did not contradict Third Brother. "But not yet. Since he understood Master's Cultivation Notes, let's give him more time to grow as strong as he can. That way, he'll have inherited something of Master's legacy."
"I'll follow Big Brother's lead."
"Me too."
The two brothers nodded quickly.
They obeyed their eldest brother without question.
Inside the Sword Grotto.
Buzzz...
A thin mist now covered the thousand-yard radius around Qin Hao.
It was not true mist, but Spiritual Qi made visible.
The Spiritual Qi had grown dense beyond belief.
Heaven and Earth Spiritual Energy was already abundant inside the Sword Grotto. Under Qin Hao's Great Dao Spirit-Seizing Art, the Spiritual Qi gathered at a terrifying rate.
The True Essence within Qin Hao's Dantian was increasing just as rapidly.
But...
Absorbing Heaven and Earth Spiritual Energy and converting it into True Essence had become instinctive to Qin Hao. He devoted little attention to it.
His mind remained focused on "understanding."
"The Sword Pool City Lord said the only way to obtain Ten Thousand Swords Return to the Origin was through understanding, but he never said what I needed to