Shi Hao, however, remained completely unmoved.
Compete in a show of power?
Back then, he had almost been possessed by a Heaven Building Ladder expert. Having experienced such an ordeal, would he take a recently Ascended "minor character" seriously?
Of course, fearless as he was, he also clearly recognized that he was still hundreds of steps behind reaching a Saintly Position. He definitely couldn't give the opposition any leverage or a chance to strike.
"Lord Shi Long, your words are quite biased," Shi Hao shook his head. "Shi Ze is of the Stone Clan, am I not as well? So, even though Shi Ze lost, it doesn't affect the Stone Clan in the slightest. Instead, it was I who replaced him."
This!
Shi Long was momentarily at a loss for words. He blamed Shi Hao for not understanding the big picture, and Shi Hao countered with an even bigger picture perspective—after all, it was all within the Stone Clan, so what difference did it make who it specifically fell upon?
