[At those words, the "big shot," who had been about to leave this battlefield, stopped dead.]
[The being shrouded in mist abruptly cast a gaze upon Zero.]
[It seemed intensely scrutinizing!]
[The atmosphere fell into an eerie silence. After an unknown stretch of time,]
[The "big shot" finally spoke leisurely, sounding the Great Dao's Voice:]
["What do you mean by that, fellow Daoist?"]
[Zero merely scoffed, a trace of disdain suffusing the Great Dao's Voice, unconcerned by the other party's increasingly icy gaze:]
["What do you think I mean?"]
[In a flash, their positions seemed to reverse completely!]
[Originally, Zero had been asking questions, and the big shot had refused to answer.]
[Now the big shot was asking questions, and Zero refused to answer...]
["If you put it that way, fellow Daoist..."]
[The big shot's features remained obscured by the mist, with only the Great Dao's Voice continuing to ring out:]
["Then I don't seem to understand either!"]
["What I asked Fellow Daoist Chen Fan for wasn't [Golden Talent: The Only Player], but [Purple Talent: Equivalent Exchange]."]
["What does that have to do with this?"]
[Zero said nothing, merely chuckling twice, seemingly even more disdainful. Dao Resonance rose again, like the Nine Hells:]
["But if you really wanted Chen Fan's [Golden Talent: The Only Player]..."]
["Would he actually give it to you?"]
["You must be joking, fellow Daoist. What would be the point of my asking for [Purple Talent: Equivalent Exchange], then?"]
[The "big shot" likewise chuckled, unconcerned by Zero's disdain, and posed a probing question through the Great Dao's Voice.]
["The point?"]
[Zero murmured through the Great Dao's Voice as though speaking to himself, his Dao Resonance becoming calm again:]
["You're the one doing this, yet you turn around and ask me what the point is."]
["Isn't that absurd?"]