"Young Master? Young Master?"
Only after the repeated calls rang in his ears did Xue Qinghe slowly come back to his senses.
"Elder, what is it?"
He looked at Porcupinefish Douluo and asked in confusion.
Porcupinefish Douluo replied, "I've been asking how we should handle things next, but you looked as though you'd lost your soul. Didn't you hear me?"
Ah!
This...!
An embarrassed look immediately appeared on Xue Qinghe's face.
His thoughts had been so tangled just now that he really hadn't heard what Porcupinefish Douluo had said.
"Do you have any good suggestions, Elder?"
"None!"
Faced with Xue Qinghe's question, Porcupinefish Douluo shook his head almost without hesitation. "Qin Xiao is too strong, and his actions are impossible to predict. I'm truly at my wits' end against him."
As he spoke, a bitter smile appeared at the corners of his mouth. "Facing him, I feel as helpless as a little child facing an adult. It's hard to imagine that he's still so young."
"You actually think that highly of him, Elder..."
Xue Qinghe's gaze flickered.
In truth, didn't he feel exactly the same way as Porcupinefish Douluo?
He, Xue Qinghe, considered his intellect, strength, and methods to be among the very best. Yet compared with Qin Xiao, even he felt inferior.
More than once, he had wondered how a monster like Qin Xiao could exist on the Douluo Continent.
"That assessment was already an understatement."
"To be honest, I believe the only people in Spirit Hall who can currently overpower Qin Xiao are His Holiness the Pope and the Great Enshrined."
Porcupinefish Douluo thought for a moment, then added, "Hmm... although the Second Worship's cultivation is higher than Qin Xiao's, he falls far behind in other respects. If the two really fought, I would actually give Qin Xiao