South Gong Street. Bright Moon Teahouse.
"Did you hear? I heard our Hall Master Mu was beaten and injured." A middle-aged fat man lifted his teacup to cover his face and whispered to his tea companion.
"Hall Master Mu? Which Hall Master Mu?" His companion looked puzzled.
"Of course it's Hall Master Mu of Still Water Sword Hall, Xifeng Sword God Mu Yubai. Other than him, who else would qualify to be called Hall Master Mu?" The fat man lowered his voice even further, as though he were sharing some secret.
"How could that be?" His companion suddenly raised his voice, then looked at the fat man with a cold laugh. "Old Luo, friends are friends, but you can't go around spouting nonsense. Otherwise, I, Old Wang, won't let it slide. What sort of person is Hall Master Mu? He's the renowned Sword God of the Xifeng Empire, undefeated for decades. I haven't heard of any expert coming to Xifeng Country to challenge him. How could Hall Master Mu lose? Who did he lose to? Who could possibly defeat our Hall Master Mu?"
"Li Mu Yang. I heard it's that child who was accepted into Starry Sky Academy—the one who killed Cui Zhao Ren. He was the one who injured our Hall Master Mu. The third son of the second branch of Big Sister Li's family next door works at Tiandu Prefecture. I heard things got pretty serious that day. Quite a few people died, and when they went to clean up the corpses afterward, some people had even been chopped into minced meat." The fat man pointed at a plate of steamed minced pork on the table. "Just like this. I heard Hall Master Mu's life or death is still unknown, and no one knows whether he'll survive this