"Why not?" Xu Tong asked in return. "The reason you haven't done this isn't that you can't, but that you don't dare!"
"In all things, you must first have courage. Only then can you succeed."
Li Yifei bowed. "Perhaps that is what sets you apart, Senior!"
"We truly cannot hope to catch even the dust in your wake. For Junyi to follow you would indeed be an immense blessing!"
"Whether he can follow me still depends on his talent," Xu Tong said. "No need to see us off. Farewell!"
"Very well! Take care, Senior!" Li Yifei was exceedingly respectful.
After Xu Tong and Huang Fei left, Li Yifei went back inside before saying, "I was wondering why you called him Senior when he looks so young."
"There really is an unfathomable aura about him. That isn't something a mere decade or two of training could produce."
Li Junyi smiled. "My first master was someone like that too. He only developed that sort of aura after living for several hundred years."
"Xu Tong is no ordinary man. He absolutely cannot be what he appears to be on the surface."
Li Yifei furrowed his brow. "But I don't understand. Why did he lose to Huang Fei? It's not as though he's never fought anyone at the Innate Grandmaster level."
"There's only one possibility: he didn't want to win." Li Junyi felt this was the only explanation.
"How could that little bit of qi Huang Fei has possibly compare to Xu Tong's?"
Li Yifei wholeheartedly agreed. "You have a point. Otherwise, there really is no way to explain it."
"Now you need to work hard. Before he returns, you must reach at least the Saint Martial level."
"That goes without saying," Li Junyi said. "Becoming a mid-tier martial artist isn't my ultimate goal.