Inside the First-Rank Pavilion teahouse.
"After being possessed by the Yin God, Xu Taiping's physique actually... actually surpassed the Great Sage Realm in one leap, and then, then he strangled... strangled that Otherworldly Evil God?!"
As they watched the burly figure gripping the Buddha statue by the throat in the Spirit Mirror, the cultivators in the teahouse erupted in an uproar.
After a moment of silence, Heavenly Lord Shihu finally spoke:
"To say he strangled it to death is something of an exaggeration. More precisely, he must have sealed that Otherworldly Evil God back inside the Buddha statue."
Xiahou You stared unblinkingly at the projection overhead and said:
"But even so, it's still far too incredible."
After a brief daze, Xiahou Qingyuan shook his head with utter seriousness and said:
"Coincidence or luck probably played a greater part."
He had no intention of contradicting her; the sight before him truly lay beyond the bounds of his understanding.
Hearing this, Xiahou You refrained from arguing for once. Instead, she turned to Heavenly Lord Shihu beside her and asked:
"What do you think, Third Uncle?"
Heavenly Lord Shihu frowned and said:
"What Qingyuan said isn't necessarily impossible."
While the three were talking, another sudden uproar swept through the spectating cultivators in the teahouse.
Immediately afterward, a cultivator cried out:
"Has Xu Taiping lost all regard for his life? Why is he still going after that Buddha statue?!"
At this, Xiahou You and the other two all looked up at the Moonshadow Stone projection overhead.
They immediately saw that Xu Taiping was climbing toward the seventh Buddha grotto in that row again.
At the sight, Xiahou Qingyuan could not help rubbing his chin. Utterly baffled, he stared at Xu Taiping in the projection and said:
"What on earth is going through Xu Taiping's