The sword radiance covering his body gradually gathered into golden sword light, spreading outward little by little.
"You clearly possess a Heavenly Spirit Bone, yet you live like a good-for-nothing. What right do you have to lecture me?"
The disdain in Zhou Tong's eyes as he looked at Zhao Qian gradually turned to wariness.
"Senior Brother Zhou, there's actually something I've never told anyone."
Zhao Qian smiled, then murmured as he stretched out a hand and loosened his muscles and bones:
"After I was found to possess a Heavenly Spirit Bone, I saw that none of you wanted to play with me, so I deliberately stopped cultivating to make myself just like everyone else.
"One year passed like that, then three, then five."
"Gradually, even I forgot that I possessed a Heavenly Spirit Bone. Then, one day, I discovered that even if I started working hard at cultivation, I could no longer regain that feeling of unobstructed thought I'd had when cultivating as a child."
"And so I became the good-for-nothing you called me, mocked every day. Day after day, year after year, I began to see myself as a good-for-nothing too."
Hearing this, Zhou Tong gave a cold laugh.
"Judging by this display, have you remembered today that you possess a Heavenly Spirit Bone?"
Zhao Qian shook his head at those words and said:
"That's right."
As he spoke, he formed a sword finger, then raised his arm without expression.
Boom!
The instant he raised his arm, a beam of golden sword light formed from countless streaks of sword radiance shot skyward from Zhao Qian's body.
From afar, it looked like a golden pillar of light connecting heaven and earth.
At the same time, a sword intent filled with the power to pierce through anything swept across Five Elders