"Have you really broken through to the Ninth Stage?" Tong Jiuyang asked, his voice trembling slightly.
Neither he nor Min Yijiang had considered that Huang Xiao might have broken through to the Ninth Stage. Among all the Heavenly Demon Sect Masters through the generations, only the founder had fully mastered the Ninth Stage of the Heavenly Demon Skill. So, however heaven-defying Huang Xiao's talent might be, could anyone dare say he surpassed every other Sect Master?
Thus, when they first saw Huang Xiao, they merely thought his power had improved tremendously. After all, he was so young, and a great increase in strength after seven years apart was only to be expected. This instead made it difficult for them to believe he had broken through to the Ninth Stage. In this respect, neither of them was as straightforward as Hong Yi. Hong Yi had not thought so much about it; he felt that such an enormous improvement in Huang Xiao's power ought to mean he had broken through to the Ninth Stage.
They had pondered too much, always feeling that perhaps no one could break through to the Ninth Stage, and that even Huang Xiao was unlikely to do so.
But the aura Huang Xiao had faintly given off just now told him that they had been utterly mistaken. Sometimes, thinking too much was not necessarily right, nor was it necessarily a good thing.
"By a stroke of luck." Huang Xiao grinned.
Tong Jiuyang and Min Yijiang were both dumbfounded. All of this had completely exceeded their imaginations.
After staring blankly for quite some time, Tong Jiuyang suddenly rose from his chair. In a flash, he stood before Huang Xiao and stared intently at him. "Really?"
"At this point, would I lie to you?" Huang Xiao said with a faint