I Am Loaded With Passive Skills

Chapter 3707: Chapter 1799: Friends_3

Xu Xiaoshou stared at him, silent for a long time, finally speaking in a slow voice:

"Regardless of whether it’s genuine or false affection, when I was at the Innate stage, his name was known, and he always treated me as an equal."

"I sought freedom, he granted freedom, I wished to establish my own sect, he was willing to lift the restrictions..."

"I can do that too." Yue Gongli said sincerely.

Xu Xiaoshou seemed oblivious, continuing his own thoughts, "To this day, I do not know what he was thinking back then, whether it was genuine or false. But the words he spoke, the promises he made, are all realized now, without exception."

Hua and Yue, both were momentarily stunned.

They were both influential figures, holding high positions, and they both somewhat understood what Xu Xiaoshou was trying to convey:

It might have been a lie.

But a lifetime of lies ceases to be lies, they become the unbreakable "promise."

"Can you do it?" Xu Xiaoshou asked the two, a single sentence directed at them.

Hua Changdeng remained silent.

The White Cave, that was around the time of first seeing "Xiao Shi Tan Ji" in the Eighth Palace.

Back then, as he observed Xu Xiaoshou from the Land of Screen and Candles, it was like a deity from the sky looking at the earth, this boy was insignificant.

Yue Gongli stayed silent.

When he first entered the Shengshen Continent, Xu Xiaoshou had already shown his prowess, had already begun to distinguish himself, but still failed to catch his eye.

Otherwise, during the Divine Relics event.

He wouldn’t have struck so easily, with an ant-crushing method, commanding the Transformation Division Chief Nian to conduct a covert attack on Xu Xiaoshou, intending to easily eliminate him.

He should have used all his skills— to hunt a rabbit, even a lion uses full strength, it would have been insufficient even to use the three corpses as a sacrifice!

Reflecting on Xu Xiaoshou’s seemingly sincere yet subtly sarcastic "praise," Yue Gongli understood the implication:

From the beginning, to the end.

Even to this very moment.

In Yue Gongli’s heart, Xu Xiaoshou was still not someone of equal standing.

And the truth was exactly so.

Yue Gongli introspected, finding that no matter how humble he behaved, he always treated Xu Xiaoshou from the perspective of someone of a higher status, even if he respectfully addressed him as "Lord Shou."

But...

Always holding high status, always being so, is it my fault?

If someone of the same status were to come, they would also not treat you as an equal, being born as a successor of the Holy Emperor is not the same as later becoming the first-in-command Saint Servant, can it be?

Yue Gongli opened his mouth, knowing Xu Xiaoshou was no longer the same as before, wanting to say something.

"Stop."

Xu Xiaoshou stretched out his hand to stop him, curling his lips, saying again: "Moon Fox, you know if Hallmaster Dao were in your position, facing my ’friendship fee,’ how would he respond?"

Yue Gongli’s pupils suddenly enlarged.

He suddenly realized that there might truly be an exception?

Xu Xiaoshou smiled: "During the Divine Relics event, he was under my control, like you wanting to dissolve past grievances with a single smile, I demanded a friendship fee from him, which was a colossal secret, even bigger than yours. Yet to this day, he is still under my control because of this, but he gave it back then, could he not foresee today?"

He was Hallmaster Dao...

Hua Changdeng had a look of shock on his face, this story, he had never heard from Yue Gongli’s mouth.𝚏𝕣𝐞𝗲𝐰𝕖𝐛𝐧𝕠𝕧𝚎𝚕.𝐜𝚘𝗺

Indeed, the fox might not even know.

Yue Gongli gritted his teeth slightly, what did Xu Xiaoshou mean by this?

Was he implying that compared to Hallmaster Dao, his own magnanimity was insufficient, or that he was weaker by half a pace?

Xu Xiaoshou looked at him with a smile: "In the same position, under the same circumstances, if I threw the same question to Hallmaster Dao, asking if he was willing to join me in Mournful, how do you think he would respond?"

Without waiting for Yue Gongli to reply, he answered himself, firm and resolute:

"He would agree without hesitation, even slap the Brother Hua beside you, precisely calculating it would be blocked, just to sacrifice life for a petty man, giving me enough face, protect me away from Wurao, and join me in Mournful."

"And this is the gap between you and Elder Dao the Flamboyant, which you can never surpass in a lifetime..."

He enunciated each word:

"A difference like that between clouds and mud."