"Impossible." Chiyou quickly recovered. "Xuan Yuanjun, I've dealt with Longevity Daoist too. His aura was absolutely not that of the Ruthlessness Dao. What you're saying is far too absurd. Even if you're making up lies, shouldn't they at least be plausible?"
"That's because his attainment in the Ruthlessness Dao has already exceeded anything you or I can imagine," Xuan Yuanjun explained.
"You're saying his strength far surpasses ours, so we can't detect it," Chiyou said gravely.
Xuan Yuanjun merely nodded.
"Ridiculous." Chiyou sneered. "Is there anyone in this world whom you and I can't see through? Longevity Daoist was indeed aloof from worldly affairs back then, and his strength was astonishing, but as far as I was concerned, it was only his Longevity and Imperishability Scripture that was troublesome."
"If you merely thought he was troublesome, with your temperament, you would have attacked Longevity Daoist long ago. You were still very interested in his Longevity and Imperishability Scripture, weren't you? Yet why didn't you act?" Xuan Yuanjun said with a smile. "Wasn't it because you knew in your own heart that Longevity Daoist's strength was slightly above yours?"
Chiyou snorted coldly.
Xuan Yuanjun was right. He, too, was deeply wary of Longevity Daoist.
However, Longevity Daoist generally came and went alone. Even though he was on good terms with Xuan Yuanjun and the others, he rarely truly intervened in the affairs of the Jianghu.
Moreover, his own attention at the time had been focused chiefly on defeating Xuan Yuanjun, so he had set Longevity Daoist aside for the moment.
In his view, Longevity Daoist seemed to be a man without much ambition, so he posed little threat to him.
Xuan Yuanjun was different. He was the Righteous Path Leader and commanded immense prestige.
The Righteous Path under his leadership was