Shan Ren had a list on hand.
It recorded information gathered by the subordinates he had sent to towns and villages across Orre on Trainers who were either strong or showed great potential.
That guy had kept it from Baimu all along. It was only after the staff he had sent to receive the visitors from Silicon Beryllium City secretly recorded the matches a couple of days ago, only to be caught red-handed, that he finally came clean.
Baimu was heartbroken.
He had something like this and hadn't shared it with his good brother? That was simply outrageous!
Brothers were supposed to be united as one, yet Shan Ren was playing mind games with him!
Shan Ren, however, insisted that among the information gathered so far, any Trainers capable of going toe-to-toe with Baimu were either already in their seventies or eighties and semi-retired, or their whereabouts were unknown, most likely because they had gone traveling.
The only exception was Batlthas, the master of Battle Mountain, whose movements were obvious. He could be found in Silicon Beryllium City without any effort at all.
"I was worried you'd go after Trainers who weren't strong enough, crush their confidence, and make them too afraid to enter the upcoming Orre League Conference."
Shan Ren's reasoning made Baimu furious, yet he could not find much to refute.
After all, if Baimu knew which powerful Trainers Orre had, he would definitely go challenge them. As for whether their resolve as Trainers would shatter—that was absolutely not part of his consideration.
Any Trainer who became so dejected after losing a single battle that they gave up altogether would inevitably encounter the same setback someday, even if they escaped it this time. It was only a matter of sooner or later.
Shan Ren clearly did not see