"Finished?"
Master Huang and Old Xu looked at each other.
Glasses Chen said it was over, but Jin Gate was still printing kung fu; no word had come to stop.
So...
Glasses Chen had lost?
"Looks like Master Huo is just as skilled with weapons!"
Master Huang exclaimed.
"Weapons? What weapons? They fought barehanded."
As Glasses Chen checked through the herbs he had picked up, he said nonchalantly, "With his skill, even if a successor of the Cassock Demon-Subduing Art came, they'd probably be evenly matched..."
"When you say evenly matched, do you mean with weapons or barehanded?"
Old Xu sharply caught the crucial point.
"Barehanded, naturally. If he needed a weapon just to be evenly matched with the Cassock Demon-Subduing Art, wouldn't that make me look bad..."
Carrying the herbs, Glasses Chen swayed off at an unhurried pace, showing the two of them not the slightest courtesy.
"Evenly matched—meaning a fifty-percent chance of defeating a successor of the Cassock Demon-Subduing Art barehanded... Such real-combat skill..."
Old Xu found it hard to believe. Just how had such martial skill been trained?
He knew Huo Yuanhong's combat method was formidable. Back when Huo Yuanhong had only been at Manifest Strength, he had learned from Old Xu a real-combat combat method comparable to that of a Peak Expert. Later, before Dan Formation, he had learned from Li Jinlin Sword One's combat method, a Martial Immortal-level art.
But what he had learned from Old Xu was no longer of much use. Sword One was, after all, a sword-based combat method; without a sword, its power was bound to be diminished. Added to that, it was someone else's modified version, so it was likely only about on par with the Spear Immortal's combat method.
That had been the comparison of strength he had previously