Hai Yue, the old man's evaluation of them, Axing completely pretended not to hear, not offering any opinion. He couldn't give any opinion anyway, since he was also among those criticized. However, the old man's claim of having seen those enemies piqued Axing's interest. He needed to know how long those people had existed to deduce the scale of their threat. But he quickly dismissed this notion, as the trembling feeling in his heart hadn't entirely disappeared.
Although the old man used extremely clever means to soothe Axing's soul-deep fear, it was merely soothing and couldn't make those feelings completely disappear. At the thought of those enemies, Axing involuntarily associated it with another layer of completely inexplicable things.
