I Am Loaded with Passive Skills

Chapter 4136: Chapter 1953: Beatdown

The sound still lingers, but things have changed.

The intent stripping was just an attempt, and when the Night Guardian’s voice truly emerged, Xu Xiaoshou felt somewhat dazed.

"Old man, long time no see..."

The Night Guardian is one of the rare few who truly stands firm.

In my memory, it seems he devoted his entire life to the border, suppressing countless ferocious ghost beasts.

When we first met at the City Lord Mansion in Tiansang City, he mistook me for a ghost beast host body. Looking back now, he wasn’t wrong.

When we met again at the White Cave, he even offered me an olive branch, but unfortunately, our paths diverged, and we couldn’t walk the same road.

Since we parted ways, every encounter afterwards ended with him chasing and me fleeing.

It’s not that Xu Xiaoshou couldn’t defeat the Night Guardian, or couldn’t devise a trap to kill him.

But despite having different positions and paths, he acknowledged the steadfastness of this Red Coat, understanding that some people can and should be killed, and some things can and should be done.

Regarding the Night Guardian, most of the time, he chose to let things slide.

In their humble beginnings, they appreciated each other.

In the final moment under the deep sea beneath Lone Cliff during the Yunlun Mountain Range Imperial City Trial, there wasn’t much Xu Xiaoshou could do; he casually gave a few bottles of elixirs.

He never regarded it as a big deal.

Afterwards, once the Nine Death Thunder Calamity under the deep sea passed, the Night Guardian vanished without a trace, marking the end of their relationship.

Thinking back now, this prolonged tug-of-war, mostly filled with confrontations, and very little communication.

Overall, Xu Xiaoshou didn’t feel he reciprocated much, but judging from the various performances after the Acquired Stage’s Five Decays of Heaven and Man in Abyss Island, he didn’t return it only with nothing.

Perhaps from his perspective, what Xu Xiaoshou insisted on was something he never understood, after all, the Saint Servant bore the name of such a large dark faction, and the people of the Holy Divine Palace could inherently not empathize.

Yet, he chose to respect it.

Unfortunately, this brief camaraderie ended decades earlier with the ghost beast experiments in Bei Huai.

Intent stripping ultimately cannot remedy regrets, just like it could strip away the intent tied to the Love Cangsheng, but Lei Xiaoxiao was long gone.

If he could return to the past, even the mere deep sea, with Xu Xiaoshou’s current strength, wouldn’t have limited him to just gifting a few bottles of elixirs to the Night Guardian?

He could have brought back the person!

Only, the ability to return to the past, Xu Xiaoshou has mastered it.

The karma involving the Night Guardian is too great, changing his fate alone wouldn’t suffice.

Bei Huai, Medicine Ancestor, the Five Decays of Heaven and Man, Ye Xiao, void attendant, Blood World Pearl and Cursed Yin, up to the first generation Six Xu’s Starry Night...

The deceased, the not yet deceased, pulling one thread affects the whole.

Forcibly altering time would lead even the Time Ancestor to collapse, let alone himself?

Xu Xiaoshou, though confident, wasn’t so powerful as to single-handedly change the layout and fate planned by so many, including the Ancestral God.

The past cannot be changed; one must look to the future.

"Since it doesn’t hurt..."

"I will avenge your grudge, no... need to thank me."

...

Pfft—

The white flame of the Dragon Melting Realm was still continuing.

Coming back to his senses, Bei Huai was still hanging by his hand.

Xu Xiaoshou shook his arm, causing the other’s broken body to slide down a bit, yet still trembling and refusing to move.

I really want to kill him with one sword!

Yet it feels too cheap for him.

Bei Huai is not normal; violence and destruction can’t seem to kill his twisted mentality from within, a different method is needed.

"Wake up, it’s time to cultivate."

A shake sent Bei Huai’s broken body flying onto the long street, creating a deep pit.

He twitched and foamed in the pit, his lips quivered, and he actually laughed in the end:

"Xu Xiaoshou, you can’t kill me..."

"Bei Huai, invincible..."

Boom!

Xu Xiaoshou descended from the sky, stepping on his chest with explosive force.

Reaching back, he summoned the Cangku Sword and thrust it into his mouth with a laugh:

"You are indeed hard to kill."

"But I remember, you actually majored in the way of the spirit and soul, the Path of Sorrow, the Seven Emotions and Six Desires, all those weird things, right?"

"The physique, you’ve only trained the superficial aspects. But being beaten by me like this, yet you still can’t bear to leave this body, why?"

The Cangku Sword stirred and twisted in his mouth.

Bei Huai was in so much pain he couldn’t even utter a word, only letting out deep growls.

The vital force pushed outwards, and the Cangku Sword gradually unsheathed.

Xu Xiaoshou paused, pressing his hand down, driving the sword deeper into Bei Huai’s mouth, pinning his head to the ground:

"Because you have no other chances, right?"

Bei Huai stiffened, continuing to spasm.

Xu Xiaoshou could clearly see his boiling soul, understanding he was actually not at peace, weighing and considering, and so he continued:

"Ayao abandoned you, and you’re homeless."

"Either cultivate under my watchful eyes and show me the Vanishing Technique, or call Ayao, but will He help you?"

He paused, ignoring Bei Huai’s response or his fierce resistance.

Xu Xiaoshou pressed his hand on the sword hilt, letting the Cangku Sword sway its waist, dancing gracefully on Bei Huai’s head, saying:

"The Body of Devour is your only way out."

"Ayao’s underhanded tactic inflicted immeasurable harm on you. This chess game, you no longer have the time to keep playing."

"The rest are secondary; only by taking the Body of Devour do you stand a chance for a final struggle, and if I am not mistaken..."

Xu Xiaoshou said, lifting his head to the sky, looking through the Dragon Melting Realm and great array toward the high sky outside the City of the Dead Bodhisattva, seeming to see the mutating Technique Species:

"You’ve calculated it well, if you can exit from Cross Corner Street and return to the five regions, it’ll be like a dragon returning to the sea."

"Ayao is returning to zero, the remaining backups and energy, like the ’pool’ of the previous City of the Living Bodhisattva, you should be able to sense where they are, then swallow them all with the Body of Devour."