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nThis was a new inn.

nXu Xiaoshou chose to stay in this one after he and Mu Zixi left the previous one. He didn’t dare to make any trouble this time.

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nHe had paid more than 10,000 spirit crystals for the explosion. It was the amount he paid because the owner of the inn thought that he was assassinated and didn’t dare charge for the repair of the barrier.

nIn fact, Xu Xiaoshou regretted what he had said to Mu Zixi about setting an example after he heard the amount he had to pay.

nHowever, he had already said it, so he had no choice but to pay up.

nOtherwise, his righteous and majestic image in the eyes of his junior sister would be gone.

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nHe and Mu Zixi agreed to rest for two more days and take the opportunity to practice making magic pills before they took the exam for the badge.

nXu Xiaoshou went back to his room alone again.

nIt was clean.

n‘How nice!’

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nHe felt a bit sentimental.

nHe decided that he wouldn’t use the remaining Passive Points recklessly again. He had saved them for any emergency.

n“Meow!”

nThe little white cat landed on the end of the bed. It sniffed with its nose, showing a joyful expression on its face, even though the cat was at Xu Xiaoshou’s feet.

n“Is your name Greedy the Cat Spirit?”

nXu Xiaoshou looked the cat up and down for a while but failed to find out what was so special about it.

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nApart from its purple eyes, this little white cat was really nothing out of ordinary.

nYet, he was fully aware of the fact that…

nIt was a ghost beast.

nIt was similar to the grey mist figure.

nAlthough he couldn’t tell why the white cat was so weak, a ghost beast was a ghost beast anyhow. Only one creature was born in each sub-dimensional space, so it couldn’t be ordinary.

n“Meow!”

nThe little white cat looked up at him and called out intimately.

n“Greedy…”

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n“How nice.”

nXu Xiaoshou murmured to the cat. He envied this kind of carefree state. If someone could provide him with Life Force every day, let him live a life without worrying about food and drink, and guarantee his safety…

nIt would be the life of a deity.

n‘I can’t have such a life, but a shabby cat can.’

nXu Xiaoshou kicked the cat.

nThe little white cat didn’t get upset. It was aware that its master didn’t use much force to do it. The cat turned over and got on Xu Xiaoshou’s feet again.

n“Ma Ma…”

nThe guy on his chest was unhappy. With a cry, two flashes of red light came out from its body.

nXu Xiaoshou was alerted.

nWas it a killing intent?

nGreedy the Cat Spirit puffed up its hair and leaped behind the bed, shrinking its body in the air.

n“Very sensitive, eh!”

nXu Xiaoshou raised his eyebrows, thinking that its reaction was not slower than his.

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nHe patted Aje, which was a stone at the moment, and explained, “Do not mess around. This is your junior brother whom you can’t kill.”

n“Hmm? Junior Brother?”

nXu Xiaoshou waved his hand to beckon for Greedy the Cat Spirit to come over. He turned the cat around and changed his wording, “This is your junior sister. Take care of it in the future!”

n“Ma Ma…”

n“Meow!”

nXu Xiaoshou was pleased. He caressed the cat with one of his hands and held the stone with another hand, falling in deep thought as he laid quietly on the bed.

n“Ghost Beast…”

nHe thought of Mo Mo. Te lonely and quiet woman was different from both Jiao Tangtang and Xin Gugu.

nThey were all ghost beast host bodies, but one accepted it willingly while the other two resisted it.

n‘Is this some kind of a force?’

nXu Xiaoshou looked at the white cat and narrowed his eyes.

nHe had sensed the liberating power exerted by the grey mist figure.

nIf the Tianxuan Gate hadn’t suppressed it, and Berserk Giant hadn’t intervened, he figured that he might have died there.

nHowever, they were not the only ones in this world.

nCompared to Jiao Tangtang and Xin Gugu, Mo Mo and the grey mist figure were more like lone wolves who developed and acted alone.

nBut the other two were apparently not that type.

n‘Hence, there is a pure ghost beast… In other words, there is an organization for the pure ghost beast host bodies.’

nXu Xiaoshou felt a chill on his scalp.

nOne of them would be able to destroy heaven and earth. What were they attempting to achieve by binding themselves together?

nHe recalled his last conversation with Elder Sang. It seemed that the goal of Saint Servant was the same as that of Mo Mo, who had become a ghost beast host body.

n‘For power?’

nXu Xiaoshou caressed the cat with a grave expression on his face, but the cat was quite pleased with the treatment.

nEven the masked man, who had astounding Sword Will and Swordsman Cen Qiaofu as his subordinate, was still craving power.

nThose ghost beast host bodies with the most direct and purest source of power still formed an organization secretly, and they didn’t even dare to let others know about them.

n‘For what?’

nThe more Xu Xiaoshou thought about it, the chillier he felt.

nIf those two super-powerful terrorist organizations had anything in common…

nThey were both purged by Divine Hall.

nThe difference was that one of them was pursued by the White Coat, which was specifically responsible for capturing and killing the rebellious humans.

nThe other one was pursued by the Red Coat, which existed to slaughter ghost beasts.

n‘Divine Hall?’

nXu Xiaoshou’s impression of this continent’s first organization was absolute justice and order.

nHe knew nothing else about the organization.

n‘Justice…’

n‘Perhaps, this is the competition for the Dao that the old man talked about!’

nXu Xiaoshou hadn’t believed it before.

nHowever, as his strength improved and knowledge widened, he found that what the old man with a conical hat in the Spirit Palace said the night of the master-disciple ceremony made more and more sense.

nThe reality was rather cruel.

nXu Xiaoshou had learned the different positions of a chess master and a pawn in the Spirit Palace.

nIt was a helpless but realistic situation.

nAt the moment, he was the pawn at the mercy of others, and his own chess master was none other than Elder Sang.

nHe didn’t dare to decline, even though he was reluctant the night of the master-disciple ceremony.

nAfter the ceremony, no matter whether it was absurd acts or messing around, all he did was go astray from the path the old man designed for him.

nIn the end, he found that he could not escape the control of the old man.

nHe had merely veered slightly from the path that he wanted to stay away.

nWhat happened after the deviation?

nAfter he had walked away from the path, he found that Elder Sang had ladened thousands of paths for him.

nHow could he break away?

nNo matter whether it was Infernal Heavens, Tianxuan Gate, or Zhao Shu, or Zhang Xinxiong…

nThe old man seemed able to control people and matters perfectly.

nNo matter how off-path he had been, what he did was always the outcome the old man with a conical hat wanted, judging by the results.

n“Phew.”

nXu Xiaoshou exhaled gently. He was very smart, so he could figure it out clearly.

nYet, he was helpless about it.

nFortunately, Elder Sang had a peculiar and eccentric personality, and he acted in his own style. Moreover, the others couldn’t understand why the old man liked Xu Xiaoshou so much.

nXu Xiaoshou couldn’t even understand it himself.

nThe old man seemed to understand him more than himself, which was terrifying for Xu Xiaoshou.

nHowever, Elder Sang answered his questions clearly after the master-disciple ceremony.

nHe came to the Spirit Palace simply to avoid certain unnecessary calamities.

nSomeone with such strength, intelligence, personality, and acting style could only be his chess master.

n‘Am I a pawn in the eyes of others?’

n“Heh!” Xu Xiaoshou sighed.

nAmong the great powers, was it true that every single one of them was very terrifying?

nDivine Hall, Saint Servant, and the ghost beast organization…

nAnd those horrific entities operating in this world, which Xu Xiaoshou hadn’t come into contact with…

n‘Perhaps as my strength keeps on improving, those people will appear by my side without warning like the white cat on my hand.’

nXu Xiaoshou felt that he had been embroiled in a dangerous situation.

n‘Yet, if I didn’t take in Greedy the Cat Spirit back then, could I withstand Jiao Tangtang and Xin Gugu?’

n‘It seems that I’m still a bit powerless…’

nThe feeling of powerlessness couldn’t be eliminated by Exploding Posture.

nThe feeling stemmed from the world, but it was also like fate and the relentless wheel of history.

nIt rolled over everyone, and no one could escape it.

nXu Xiaoshou lowered his head and saw Greedy the Cat Spirit displaying a joyful expression on its face.

nThe little creature was moaning slightly, taking a pleasurable nap, and enjoying itself.

n‘The competition for the Dao?’

nThe young man didn’t dare to think about it anymore.

nHe was afraid that Elder Sang’s worldview would replace his own knowledge of this world if he thought too much.

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