Those ordinary humans—you could beat them if you wanted, spread the word if you wanted. But the Ye Family was not something one could casually lay a hand on.
Now that the Ye Family had proposed a closed-door sparring match, with the result kept confidential, it came at exactly the right time. It perfectly matched Fatty Xia's original intention of handling this matter quietly, so naturally, he wanted to make it happen.
Tong Lie had no objection to this. He would never think that defeating the current descendants of the Ye Family meant he had defeated the Ye Shaoqiu of the past.
Therefore, such empty fame was useless to him. What he truly wanted was to uncover the secrets of the Cheng Jun Divine Sword and the mysteries of the Divine Thought Sword Technique.
Thus, the two sides hit it off at once. The very next day after Fatty Xia received the Ye Family's message, he brought Tong Lie to their door for a sparring match, entering through the Ye Family's side gate.
Before the battle, the Ye Family had driven out every servant. Apart from Ye Mingyang, his father, and his uncle, no one else was present.
In other words, the only true spectators were the two brothers of the previous generation of the Ye Family, along with Fatty Xia.
The venue was a martial training ground within the Ye Family estate. The ground beneath it was entirely forged from Taibai Fine Iron. So long as they did not use power too far beyond the limits, it would be enough to ensure the sparring match concluded smoothly without causing too great a disturbance.
Of course, this battle was utterly conventional from beginning to end—so conventional that the three spectators already knew the outcome before the sparring even began: Tong