Yun Xiazi looked around and spotted the traces of how the terrain here had changed.
"Someone suddenly came to ask whether I'd taken a disciple in Outer City. Strange, really. It was a very strange question. Inner City has so many talented people with exceptional aptitude that no one would go to Outer City to take a disciple. For anyone else, it would be impossible. But for me? It could happen. I'm that willful."
"May I ask who you are?" Lin Hui's tone grew a little more guarded.
"What use is an identity?" Yun Xiazi asked in return. "Once you have the strength, status follows. So tell me, how did you perfect and create those sword techniques?"
An ordinary Martial Artist might look at the Seven Section Fast Sword and Nine Section Fast Sword and see that, yes, they had grown considerably stronger after being refined, but their power was still limited.
Yun Xiazi was different. As someone at the pinnacle of Tuyue City's martial arts world, he saw at once how complex and difficult the work behind those two techniques had been. Terrifying, even.
Yun Xiazi knew he could not have refined and optimized two ordinary external martial arts to this degree.
The amount of work involved was simply too vast.
That was why he had willingly waited so long: to meet Lin Hui, their creator, in person.
"I felt some parts didn't quite fit, so I adjusted them bit by bit, following that feeling," Lin Hui answered calmly. Naturally, he could not reveal the Blood Seal. This was the only answer he could give outsiders.
"Feeling? Fair enough. I created my own martial arts back then because something felt wrong to me too." To Lin Hui's surprise, Yun Xiazi accepted the explanation.
Then he looked at the Ruyi