"I lost!"
"I lost completely."
"I never imagined the gap between us would be this huge."
"Could it be that my strength isn't enough?"
"I can clearly defeat peak Emperor Lord Realm experts, so why couldn't I block that one sword of yours?"
Gu Minglou looked at Chen Changan, puzzled. He remembered Chen Changan saying that dealing with Emperor Dao Realm experts would be difficult for him. In other words, his strength should also be at the peak of Emperor Lord Realm.
If so, then even if he couldn't win, he should at least have been able to put up a fight.
Or had the peak Emperor Lord Realm expert he defeated back then been so weak that it had given him the illusion he could match the strength of someone at the peak of Emperor Lord Realm?
"I think I didn't explain myself clearly, and you misunderstood."
"When I said 'deal with,' I meant kill, not defeat."
At those words, Gu Minglou's heart jolted.
Kill an Emperor Dao Realm expert?
Still, killing and defeating were indeed two different things. Some people might be able to defeat an Emperor Dao Realm expert, but to kill one, they needed overwhelming strength.
"So just now, did you actually use your full strength?" Gu Minglou asked with a frown.
"It was only a spar. There was no need to go for the kill, right?" Chen Changan said with a faint smile.
Gu Minglou might have been a stubborn, single-minded hothead, but he wasn't a fool.
Chen Changan hadn't said it outright, but his meaning was clear. If he had used his full strength, Gu Minglou would be dead!
It was only a spar, so Chen Changan had chosen not to go all out.
"So this is how enormous the gap is between me