A Battle of Words (Everything's Great on the Mountain Except the Water's Been Cut Off...)

It had to be said that Fan Qinghui was somewhat stunned by Fang Zheng's utterly blunt remarks. After all, she had mastered the Sword Heart Clarity Technique and had her own attainments when it came to charm. Ordinarily, young men would not refute what she said. Even if they did, few would be so merciless.

"But if you act this way, Young Master Fang, aren't you afraid of bringing disaster upon yourself?"

"Everything I have done has been reasonable and lawful. What disaster could there be?"

Fang Zheng chuckled and lifted his teacup again.

"Could it be that Miss Fan does not understand the law?"

Fang Zheng was referring to the criminal code of Great Han. Since this was not an ordinary world but rather a High Martial World, the authorities generally supported martial artists in upholding justice. Of course, Great Han also had strict legal regulations. For example, every target placed on a wanted list came with an upper limit.

Those guilty of the most heinous crimes were generally marked "dead or alive." The implication was that they wanted to see the person alive, or their corpse if dead. Alive was better, but dead was acceptable too. Criminals like that would usually be sentenced to death even if captured, so if you killed them directly, you could even save the authorities some trouble. Therefore, for such criminals, the authorities generally only required you to bring back a head so they could confirm the identity.

But aside from that, things were different. Great Han's criminal code even divided bounties into first, second, and third grades. For third-grade targets, they only needed to be alive. But first- and second-grade targets came with stricter requirements, such as not being injured or not causing any deaths.

For example, if a thief stole someone's