"Bai... Grandmaster... what are you planning to do now?"
Chu Xingchen followed behind Bai Xuanling. Seeing the murderous ferocity surging through her, he promptly changed how he addressed her and asked with a thoroughly meek expression.
Bai Xuanling's steps were calm and measured, as though she had already shaken off the influence of her killing intent. Even her voice sounded much as it usually did:
"I have no plans for now. The way those two Heavenly Demons escaped was rather unusual and needs studying. Still, those two will probably have to vanish without a trace for several hundred years."
"Even if my sword strike didn't kill them, it should have taken most of their bodies. My sword intent will keep shredding what remains, too."
Chu Xingchen nodded lightly.
For now, he could only abandon his attempt to persuade Bai Xuanling to become his disciple.
The reason the system refused to acknowledge it still needed investigating. Whether it was because Bai Xuanling had only said the words without truly believing she had taken him as her master, or because her cultivation far surpassed his and the system therefore refused to accept her, remained to be studied.
Chu Xingchen could certainly tell her outright-as long as you sincerely take me as your master, I'll have a supreme heart method suited to you, and I can even upgrade your traits. A mere mental barrier would be nothing.
What proof did he have? The proof was that he was the Child of the Heavenly Mandate.
Chu Xingchen could naturally talk it up into something miraculous, but with the conditions unclear, even Bai Xuanling's willing cooperation probably wouldn't make it easy.
If, after all that, the condition turned out to be cultivation, wouldn't it all have been sheer nonsense?
Bai Xuanling would definitely think he