Bai Fei remained expressionless and did not respond. Xiao Yue continued, "You have always regarded Xiao Hua as the goal you had to surpass in your cultivation. Although... you knew in your heart that your current cultivation had already far surpassed his! Yet before you saw him, you always felt that... he had firmly pressed you down by a head! Before him, you could never hold your head high! In truth, you went to every conceivable length to return to Xiaoyu Continent. Avoiding the experts of the Heavenly Alliance was one reason, and avoiding the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi aberration was another, but your true purpose... I fear only you yourself know it! You wanted to prove with your own strength that you... were the master of the Heavenly Dao, that you had already trampled Xiao Hua beneath your feet!"
At that moment, Bai Fei spoke. "That is right. On Yilin Continent, Bai could likewise avoid the experts of the Heavenly Alliance. Even upon reaching Xiaoyu Continent, the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi aberration remained unavoidable! Bai's greatest wish and most important purpose in returning to Xiaoyu Continent... was to eradicate this inner demon from my heart! Bai wanted to see Xiao Hua's cultivation, to see his progress over these past several hundred years. That Xiao Hua who had once suppressed Bai so thoroughly was no longer an obstacle in Bai's cultivation!!!"
"Master!" Xiao Yue urged gently, "You need not care too much about such things! How many cultivators under heaven possessed an opportunity like yours? You had this heaven-defying spiritual liquid, and you had obtained the ancient immortal artifact, A World Within a Square! On those grounds alone, Xiao Hua was far inferior to you! And beyond that, you possessed the resilience, decisiveness, and indomitable drive that other