Touya Akira, at the competition venue, also turned to look at Xu Yue upon hearing this.
Xu Yue had already announced to him through his record in the professional qualifying tournament that the title Greatest Academy Student of All Time was no empty boast!
So Touya Akira had little trouble accepting that Xu Yue had become such a prominent figure in online Go.
After all, Touya Akira did not have any concrete grasp of Sai and Yue's actual strength.
There simply were not many professional players online.
"Ah, having one of my doubts resolved means this trip has already been worthwhile."
"Indeed. After coming here and hearing some rumors from the professional qualifying venue, I had vaguely suspected as much, but I never thought it was true."
"Then who exactly is Sai?"
"..."
Hearing the conversation between the players who had faced Sai and Yue, the other professional players present finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Just as they thought—how could a bunch of amateurs understand true Go masters?
So it turned out that one of the two powerhouses dominating online Go was an academy student currently taking the professional qualifying exam.
Perhaps he already possessed professional-level ability, but at most, he was merely a newcomer among professional players!
Besides, whether he could keep winning all the way through and claim the final victory was still uncertain.
Too many Go masters had suffered from mentality problems, winning consecutively early on only to lose repeatedly later.
In that case, Sai, who was only a tiny bit stronger than this top academy student, was at most an ordinary professional Go master. He had been praised far too extravagantly. They could generously call him a sixth dan—seventh dan at most.
Hmm, supposedly he had beaten Kisei Ichiryū, but Kisei Ichiryū was famously casual.