Swordsman!
This thin middle-aged man, dressed like a traveling doctor, had come because he was the reincarnation of the Swordsman.
As Su Yi's thoughts turned, he noticed the Black Dog's fur standing on end, its tense appearance as though facing great enemies. He casually tapped the wine table with a finger.
An invisible force immediately spread out, calming the Black Dog at once and cutting off its sense of the terrifying pressure emanating from the thin middle-aged man.
Su Yi had already spoken. "Is whether I awaken so important to Your Excellency?"
The thin middle-aged man smiled and poured Su Yi a bowl of wine. "If the Swordsman had encountered me, he would either have treated me as mere scenery and strode away, or drawn his sword against me, suppressing me as he did upon the Heaven Sealing Stage. No matter what, he would never have said another word to me."
He tipped back another large bowl of wine and sighed. "As his reincarnation, you truly are different from him."
The Black Dog could not help but feel shocked. This old bastard had actually ascended the Heaven Sealing Stage?
Su Yi had no such sentiments. "Then why has Your Excellency come to see me?"
The thin middle-aged man grabbed a piece of braised beef and chewed it heartily as he spoke. "The ages have passed, seas have turned into mulberry fields, and now an old friend has returned through reincarnation. Naturally, I wished to see with my own eyes just how much that old friend has changed."
Su Yi said, "Only to take a look?"
The thin middle-aged man let out a full belch, set down his wine bowl, and smiled. "I can tell that you wish to weigh the measure of my attainments on the Great Dao."
Su Yi