At that moment, Heaven-Hunting Great Sage, who had been silent and lost in thought, suddenly spoke with excitement written across his face:
"Not only did you know the brand existed, you even knew its exact location. Not only did you know its exact location, you even knew when it would descend!"
"Star Official Taibai's last words have come true!!"
Utterly bewildered, Xu Taiping asked:
"Great Sage, what exactly is going on?"
But Heaven-Hunting Great Sage seemed not to have heard Xu Taiping at all. He simply rested both hands on Xu Taiping's shoulders and kept looking him up and down.
Had he not been able to sense the aura of the man before him, Xu Taiping would have begun to wonder whether he really was Heaven-Hunting Great Sage.
Then, after looking Xu Taiping over and sensing him for a while, Heaven-Hunting Great Sage suddenly frowned in confusion:
"That's not right. Why would it be you? You have no special aura, nor any special root bone. It shouldn't be..."
At this point, Heaven-Hunting Great Sage suddenly froze again. Only after a long while did his eyes widen as he murmured:
"The spirit bones of this world are divided into four grades."
"First grade, heavenly spirit bone. Second grade, golden spirit bone. Third grade, profound spirit bone. Fourth grade, white spirit bone."
"All the rest are mortal bones, fated never to cultivate."
After murmuring this to himself, his eyes filled with excitement, and he repeated over and over:
"Not a lack of fate, but an inability! A prohibition!"
"So that conjecture back then was right."
"Mortal bone! Mortal bone! It's mortal bone!"
"It's because of mortal bone."
"Only someone with mortal bone who ascends to a half-immortal seat can immediately discover this brand's existence and remain free of its restraints!!"
Although Heaven-Hunting