"What a terrifying face!"
After the Soul Reading brought forth a pop-up of Hallmaster Dao, Xu Xiaoshou's first reaction was not to look for an "X" to close this thing but to shut down the entire Soul Reading interface.
"What the hell!"
"Taizai Ci's soul, Gold-Eroding Kui's past, the truths behind Bei Huai and the Secret of Ghost Beast, blocked by a Hallmaster Dao?"
"Could it be..."
Could it be that the world is a vast Hallmaster Dao, with even Bei Huai falling prey to it unknowingly—outside the north, inside the path?
"Startled, Passive Points, +1."
Xu Xiaoshou kept telling himself that he was no longer the Xu from Qingyuan Mountain and that God's Ruins were not a place where Hallmaster Dao could come and go as he pleased.
On the contrary, I could use my face, use this cross-world confrontation, to lure him into the game.
Eighth and Elder Dao the Flamboyant were both wary of the trickery of God's Ruins...
