Hearing Blade Ghost speak for the first time in a long while, Xu Taiping immediately grew interested and replied:
"Senior, I don't have any Soulfire Stones on hand. Can I still enter your blade domain?"
Blade Ghost chuckled and said:
"To tell you the truth, when you blocked that Heavenly Tribulation Eye and received the Heavenly Dao Gift, This Old Man got a share of the spoils too. It helped This Old Man unlock both the tenth and eleventh layers of my blade domain in one go."
"I also benefited from that Pure Domain Buddha Lotus. This Old Man drew in some of Buddhism's pure domain power and repaired my damaged divine soul a little more."
Blade Ghost immediately added:
"But don't worry. Whether it was the divine power bestowed by the Heavenly Dao Gift or the pure domain power of that Pure Domain Buddha Lotus, This Old Man only took what you hadn't managed to absorb. I didn't compete with you for any of it."
Had they only just met, Blade Ghost's words would certainly have made Xu Taiping uneasy.
But by now, he and Blade Ghost had become people who relied on one another. Xu Taiping therefore wasn't worried that Blade Ghost's recovery of his divine soul and cultivation would endanger him. Instead, he felt rather happy for him.
And just as Blade Ghost said, Xu Taiping himself could sense that Blade Ghost had never seized even a trace of either the Heavenly Dao Gift he had received after his breakthrough or the pure domain spiritual power within that Pure Domain Buddha Lotus.
Unable to conceal his excitement, Blade Ghost continued:
"The nourishment of these two powers has been of tremendous benefit to repairing my blade domain and divine soul. Now, not only can I bring you into