"What could you do?" Huang Xiao countered. "You think you can't defeat him? So you gave up, gave up on avenging your master? Now I'm curious. Just how strong is that man?"
"Beyond anything you or I could imagine," Hong Yi said, shaking his head.
"Who says I don't know? Isn't he just an expert in the Peerless Realm? It's not as though I've never seen Peerless Realm experts before. They're human too. If they could reach the Peerless Realm, why couldn't you or I?" Huang Xiao fired back with a string of questions.
Huang Xiao really had seen experts in the Peerless Realm, whether it was the Jade-Faced Rakshasa he had encountered back then, the Valley Master of Poison God Valley, or even the Valley Master's Granduncle. They were clearly all in the Peerless Realm, though he did not know exactly which level of that realm they had reached.
In any case, Huang Xiao did know something about Peerless Realm experts.
"The Peerless Realm!" Hong Yi sighed. "Brother Huang, you make it sound so easy. In our Beggar Gang, my master had the highest cultivation, yet even he never broke through to the Peerless Realm. What can I do?"
Huang Xiao had not expected Hong Yi to become so dispirited all at once. Still, he thought it over. What would he have done in Hong Yi's place?
Huang Xiao knew something of Zhu Zhentong being the Beggar Gang's strongest expert. After all, the Beggar Gang had declined, with nearly all its experts killed or wounded back then.
That was why Hong Yi felt he would struggle to surpass his master in the future. If even his master could not break through to the Peerless Realm, could he?
Tormented by doubts over gains and losses, especially after his master's death,