Thinking again of Xiao Hua's unfathomable methods—the thirty-odd-zhang Phoenix Dharma Body, the wind and lightning around it, the lightning controlled between its phoenix claws, the lightning-escape movement technique that flashed past like a startled swan, the spear that shattered a sword cultivator's defenses in one stroke, the demonic spear that killed with a single thrust—and then there was that flash of golden light, the magic treasure whose shape they had not even seen before it had already taken a life! Any one of these was a divine ability beyond their wildest dreams!
How could their mouths not taste bitter? Thinking of Xiao Hua's indifference when he captured the Azure Crab, how could he not have been indifferent? That thing simply had not been worth his notice! What had Xiao Hua gone off to do? He had surely gone to seek out the Azure Crab's origin. While they had still been thrilled over that bean-sized scrap of Taiyi Azure Light, he had already gone looking for the source of the Taiyi Azure Light. The gap between them... could not be measured in miles!
Unfortunately, they had still underestimated Xiao Hua too greatly. Not to mention that Xiao Hua's strength had revealed less than half of itself—even if they learned that he had taken the Innate Golden Mother, they would likely be so stunned that they could not settle down to cultivate for days! Of course, that was assuming they even knew what the Innate Golden Mother was.
Xiao Hua's thoughts were different. He cultivated as he pondered.
What puzzled him was this: how had that sword-transformation old man been able to draw a flying sword from beneath Jiming Mountain? Had that flying sword been tempered with the Innate Golden Mother? Or had it absorbed Taiyi Azure Light beneath the Innate Golden