"Exactly!"
Zhao Baiyang lets out a sigh and speaks.
When he first met him in the Wild Mountain Ancient Temple, he thought Pei Xuanjing would be a good opponent, someone who'd accompany him on his future cultivation journey as a Taoist friend.
However, the growth shown by Pei Xuanjing exceeded his expectations. The other man's cultivation advanced by leaps and bounds, ascending rapidly.
Even today, while he still considered Pei Xuanjing as a friend in the path of Tao, he knew that he was no longer a match for him.
In the decades they'd been apart, despite his own power progressing significantly, and even gaining an undefeated strength against the Seventh Level of the Spiritual Realm, the gap between him and Pei Xuanjing was still significant.