Many days flashed by, and the Mount Hua disciples had long since undergone a marked change.
Though the Fuwei Escort Agency covered a large area, its training grounds felt cramped with twenty-odd Mount Hua Sect experts practicing swordplay and martial arts there every day.
The main reason was that the Mount Hua Sect had come from afar as guests—and honored guests whom everyone wanted to curry favor with.
That training ground could certainly have accommodated five or six times their number, but every Mount Hua disciple occupied a great deal of space, and no one dared approach to disturb them.
Before long, those unaware of the circumstances might even have felt as though the guests had taken over the host's home.
Yet no one within the Fuwei Escort Agency minded such a sight.
They wished they could give the entire training ground to the Mount Hua disciples and wait on them to their satisfaction. If they were fortunate enough to receive a word or two of guidance from one of those disciples, it would be a rare opportunity indeed.
When the Mount Hua Sect disciples had first arrived at the Fuwei Escort Agency, some of the later entrants among them had sparred with the agency's strongest fighters and had only been evenly matched.
Those Escort Leaders had also been happy to serve as sparring partners and targets for the Mount Hua disciples.
This was because although the more junior disciples had yet to develop much skill, what they practiced was the Mount Hua Sect's orthodox martial arts. Its techniques were exquisite and its forms rigorous, naturally far beyond the third-rate, unorthodox styles of the martial world.
Since they happened to be evenly matched with those Escort Leaders, sparring with them gave the escorts more experience fighting disciples of famous orthodox