"Oh ho, this guy's got quite the temper. Looks like he's got some skill, huh." Xu Zishuai watched Huo Hongyuan ignore him and leave straight away, shaking the water droplets off his leather pouch.
Lu Gang took off his clothes and wrung them dry. "You really don't remember?"
"Remember what?" Xu Zishuai asked in puzzlement.
"That was Huo Hongyuan, Sea Patrol Yaksha Fate, from the Huo Family of Yun Province next to Huang Province. Innate Martial Bone, the Winnowing Basket Water Leopard of the Twenty-Eight Mansions. Junior Brother speared him at the Great Hunting Assembly back then, and you were even egging people on to place bets. He works at the River Conservancy Office now, right?"
"He does work at the River Conservancy Office." Xiang Fangsu nodded.
"Huo? Ho!" Xu Zishuai's eyes flew wide open as he slapped his forehead. "I remember now, my mistake, my mistake! No wonder he looked familiar. I knew I'd seen him before."
"Why does A Shui always make such a huge spectacle?" Ke Wenbin looked up at the water pillar. "And what does holding it inside the water pillar mean?"
The setting sun pierced through the water pillar, scattering rippling light like leaping gold.
Rather than a pillar, it was more accurately a tower—a tower reaching the heavens. Its footprint was so vast it was nearly impossible to measure, enough to make one wonder whether people across half a province could see it.
Yet even more shocking was the prize for first place—the Profound Yellow Token.
The Great Hunting Assembly was open to anyone under thirty-five, regardless of cultivation, gender, or place of origin.
By past convention, aside from exceptional cases, youths of that age would at most have just entered Hunting Tiger. Offering a strand of Heaven and Earth Long Qi as the