"Stop arguing."
The head of the Third Tower suddenly interrupted the two.
"Huihai is right. After the Sumeru Realm became a Demon Domain, there could never be another Zhang Tianze in this world. Even our Faceless Tower would struggle to match the fortune the Zhang family poured into him."
The white-haired head paused here, then looked at the illusory image in the center of the hall with a trace of sympathy and continued, "What's more, this Xu Taiping could never have had mortal bone to begin with."
"Why are you so certain, Head?" Third Seat Zhu Ling was deeply puzzled.
Speaking in absolutes was a grave taboo in their Faceless Tower.
The white-haired head did not answer. Instead, he reached out and grasped at the air, making the Spirit Mirror above the hall rewind the scene in the illusory image before them to the moment Xu Taiping had been afflicted with the Nine Abysses Bone-Shattering Curse.
Only then did he point at the rings of rainbow light spreading out around Xu Taiping in the image and say:
"If he had mortal bone, these nine spirit rings would not have appeared on his body after he was afflicted with the Nine Nether Bone-Shattering Curse. They appear only when spirit bone shatters."
With that, he withdrew his gaze, looked at the Third Seat and the Second Seat in turn, and said:
"In short, Xu Taiping does have spirit bone. It is simply of a lower grade."
Hearing this, the Second Seat, the warrior monk Huihai, immediately grinned and said:
"In other words, from today onward, this Golden Scale Champion is finished."
"What a pity."
Inside the Nine Prefectures' great hall, Liu Chuxuan looked up and heaved a long sigh after listening to the explanations of A Meng and Patriarch Wuya of