Time flowed like water, and three days passed in the blink of an eye.
News that the Fighting Association's convoy had been attacked, and that Commissioner Carly and the prodigious student Wan Huo had both perished, hit the city's major factions like oil poured onto a blazing fire, stirring a thousand waves.
The death of a Martial Corrosion Realm powerhouse was far more shocking than any ordinary clash, especially when the victim was a commissioner of the Fighting Association, the very symbol of the Sun Radiance Alliance's authority.
Who knew how many years had passed since anything like this had last happened?
For a time, every rustle of wind and cry of a crane set the city on edge. Speculation and rumors spread endlessly, and even the normally bustling streets grew quieter, the air heavy with the oppressive stillness before a mountain storm.
By comparison, the ripples caused by Wan Huo's death seemed insignificant beneath the vast shadow of Carly's demise-at least in the eyes of most onlookers.
For the Heavy Peak Martial Hall, however, it was a crippling blow. A peerless prodigy who had condensed Special Yuan Gang and secured an elite quota had broken his wings in the wilderness before he could truly take flight. The radiant halo this had bestowed on the Heavy Peak Martial Hall instantly dimmed, even taking on an ominous pall.
Yet one person's sorrow was another's joy. While the Heavy Peak Martial Hall reeled from the blow, the Iron Bone Martial Hall showed signs of renewed life.
The excitement surrounding the fighting tournament had yet to fade completely. Everyone in the city knew that among the younger generation, aside from Mangya, who hailed from a wilderness settlement and had already been taken away by the association, only Wan Huo and Li Wei of