Rui knew that it would come down to this.
He had a sneaking suspicion that the old man was going down this line of reasoning when he began talking about a numeric advantage.
"I do not possess any knowledge of what you seek, elder Master," Rui narrowed his eyes. "Please continue with the briefing."
The old man didn't believe Rui for a bit.
Rui possessed immense power in the Kandrian Empire until relatively recently. It was extremely difficult for anybody to believe that he had absolutely no idea as to what the manner through which mass Martial Artists were created, was.
And his suspicions were correct.
However, not for reasons that he thought they were.
After all, he didn't just know what was responsible for the breakthroughs to the Apprentice Realm; he was the cause of all these breakthroughs.