"Senior Blade Ghost's aura now was nowhere near Kang Cangzi's, but it was stronger than the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage's when he challenged Dong Cangzi."
"Compared with Dong Cangzi's, it seemed only a sliver stronger."
Back at the Pine and Bamboo Residence in the Bamboo Sea Grotto-Heaven, Xu Taiping was still recalling Senior Blade Ghost's aura from moments before.
Beside him, Old Daoist Huang was carving a talisman slip. After hearing Xu Taiping's words, he suddenly raised his head and said in astonishment:
"When the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage challenged Dong Cangzi, he was a quasi-half-immortal. Senior Blade Ghost's aura has actually surpassed his?"
He immediately added:
"And he isn't even a quasi-half-immortal yet!"
Xu Taiping let out a long breath and said with a wry smile:
"The fact that he survived with only a wisp of remnant soul shows just how powerful he was in battle back then."
Blade Ghost's strength came as no surprise to him.
Old Daoist Huang chuckled and said:
"The stronger Senior Blade Ghost is, the safer our coming trip to the Taixuan Ghost Domain will be."
Just then, Old Daoist Huang seemed to remember something and asked Xu Taiping:
"Taiping, how has Lady Jade Mother been lately?"
Xu Taiping shook his head and said:
"Ever since she helped us deal with Dong Cangzi that time, she's been asleep. Now she doesn't even wake when she needs spirit marrow stones."
"She only draws on the power of the spirit marrow stones inside the stone gourd by instinct."
Old Daoist Huang sighed and said:
"We really shouldn't have let her act that time."
In his view, it must have been because she had acted then that Jade Mother's Incarnation Xiaoyu, who should originally have awakened her spiritual intelligence within two or three years, had remained asleep all this