Xu Tong did not bother saying anything more and asked directly, "What are you basing that judgment on?"
"Do I need a basis?" Old Man Quan countered. "It's very simple. Someone born with vast amounts of spiritual power would be just like that idiot Huang Fei."
"Qi and spiritual power work on the same principle. If you can't cultivate immortality, you have to use a superior cultivation method to fully open your meridians before you can draw on them."
"But if a Cultivator is hiding their strength, there's no need for any of that."
Geng Shu smiled. "So you saw through us long ago, sir. Why didn't you expose us?"
"What would be the point?" Old Man Quan countered. "Whether you're a Cultivator or a Martial Artist, it all comes down to the same thing. Everyone wants to become stronger."
"I don't harbor that much resentment toward Cultivators. Only the weak have time to complain about how strong, how formidable, how impossible to counter Cultivators are."
Xu Tong stood with his arms folded, saying nothing, though his eyes remained fixed on the old man.
Those words sounded very nice, but now Xu Tong suspected the truth might be that this old man was also a Dual Cultivation practitioner.
So far, he had never displayed his own strength.
Xu Tong had secretly asked Geng Shu about it. Even when the old man was giving her pointers, he never demonstrated anything.
They could not sense the old man's cultivation at all, leaving only one possible explanation.
Either his foundations had been damaged and even his talent as a Martial Artist had vanished, or he was a Cultivator. Only a complete Seal would produce this effect.
If it were the former, he should not have been able to see through Xu Tong's sealed