With Yang Rai's decision of continuing the fight in earnest he could tell his attainments were rapidly increasing over the duration of the fight. He could feel that he would be able to push his Artifact world closer to 500 years a year. With that as his determination he continued in earnest.
"Why do you continue to try and fight against us?"
"Yeah we are stronger than you."
"It's simple, I'm not satisfied with my own performance so I will continue to fight until I am."
"You might die at this rate."
"Don't worry I will ask you to stop when the time comes."
"What makes you think we would stop after you pushed us this far?"
"Because I personally give each of you a resource producing boulders."
"Why would we need that?"
"To provide a better array of resources to the troops fighting your battle. They will learn new abilities."
"That sounds good."
The both of them relaxed a little. This angered Yang Rai since they weren't fighting as hard he couldn't improve as fast. And for someone proficient in the dao of time he knew precisely how precious each and every second was. But he came up with an idea.
"If you relax this much I might actually find a way to beat the both of you. Seems like neither of you are elder siblings."
That got them to continue this fight with a substantial amount of vigor. They didn't like not being the Elder Sibling enough to prove they weren't. His battle with them continued for a year.
It was time to end the fight. So Yang Rai spoke once again.
"We should end this fight here. I thank you Elder Brother Huang and Elder Brother Lan for the guidance. The two of you are the only ones I can go all out with."
"So who did better?"
"That is very difficult to answer. You both did incredibly similar things. Sadly if I had to pick a winner. It would be… me."
"What?!"x2
"Simple, neither of you learned a single thing during this battle."
"But we fought you for a year."
"Yes. Now who has more strength between the two of you it's not a large difference that goes to Elder brother Huang."
"Ahahaha, I'm stronger."
"Not really, you may have more strength but it was Elder Sister who I had a difficult time keeping up with. She is certainly faster than you."
"So who is better, sister Lan or myself."
Yang Rai had a real answer but at the same time it wouldn't help if he just told them. Maybe…