"Fellow Daoist Ding, I am Wu Qiuse. This is our first meeting—please forgive the intrusion..."
After entering the residence, Wu Qiuse took the initiative to greet Ding Baisheng the moment he saw him.
After all, Ding Baisheng was a genuine Dao Seed Realm expert, an existence on the same level as Wu Qiuse.
From any perspective, Wu Qiuse had to treat him with due solemnity.
This was entirely different in nature from recognizing Li Yun's potential and admiring him because of it.
After all, no matter how great Li Yun's potential was, his achievements still lay in the future—and who could say for certain what the future held?
How many prodigies who had once shaken the world had fallen prematurely for all sorts of reasons? That was perfectly normal. Compared to that, they were far less intimidating than a ready-made Dao Seed Realm expert.
Otherwise, Li Yun would not have needed to choose to leave Eastern Cloud Prefecture back then, nor would he have left Mysterious Moon Kingdom outright.
Potential was potential, the future was the future, and strength was strength. They could not simply be lumped together.
By the same token, Wu Qiuse's strength was plain for all to see. But since Wu Qiuse had not come looking for trouble, Ding Baisheng could not possibly greet him with a hostile face any longer.
Once the two sat down and began talking, the atmosphere instead quickly grew harmonious.
Even Wu Nanfeng, whose heart was full of gloom, temporarily cast aside his tangled thoughts. He put on the act of a well-behaved child and listened carefully as the two Dao Seed Realm big shots chatted freely.
A world-shaking battle that could have erupted at any moment silently dissolved into nothing amid this conversation.
As the saying went, the martial world was