Actually, anyone with sharp eyes could have seen it long ago: Lin Xiaolong was deliberately running around the people of the Greater Dongyin Empire, leading Noda Shuhei to kill them.
As a divine envoy of the Dongyin Sun Shrine, Noda Shuhei couldn't even catch up to him, let alone touch a single hair on his head.
It wasn't that the guy refused to fight him; it was simply that his strength was vastly inferior.
Chapter 458