After a moment's surprise, Ou Jin nodded. "That counts too. What I said just now was a little one-sided. No wonder the Huang lad's strength has grown so quickly. Tempering yourself between life and death really is deadly business. Being a candidate for Demon Hall Master isn't easy either. Apart from the one who succeeds, the others are almost certain to die."
"Huang Xiao will be the one who succeeds," Demon Phoenix declared.
"Ha ha!" Ou Jin laughed. "It would be wonderful if Huang Xiao claimed the Hall Master's Seat. After all, we know each other. When the Thousand-Year Period comes, surely he wouldn't take his blade to an old man like me?"
"Old Man Ou, you have a knack for forging, but your strength is simply too pitiful to look at. Even the Thousand-Year Period would have nothing to do with you," Demon Phoenix said, unable to resist taking him down a peg.
The Demon Hall's Thousand-Year Period had always targeted experts. Ou Jin was only in the Peerless Realm, so by rights, he was indeed not among those marked for extermination. Huang Xiao, however, did not see it that way. Ou Jin's identity was somewhat sensitive, unlike that of an ordinary Peerless Realm practitioner. How could Huang Xiao say for certain what would happen during the Thousand-Year Period?
By then, he did not even know where he himself would be.
Of course Huang Xiao wanted to become the Demon Hall Master, but he knew full well how difficult it would be.
Even the Demon Hall Master sometimes had no control over his own actions. His own patriarch, for instance, had been constrained by the Pang Family.
So even if he became Hall Master and said he wanted to spare Ou Jin, what if someone beneath him refused to