Junior Sister

Faced with Chen Yuanye's blunt words, the martial artist Chen Yuanye did not refute him. Instead, he sighed.

"Indeed. I suffered a complete defeat!"

"I never imagined that three 'Six-Guans' demons would appear in Chen Family Fortress at the same time... But as a 'Seven-Guans' expert, I should still have been able to handle them."

Lin Yu raised an eyebrow in surprise.

This guy was actually quite skilled.

According to Senior Sister Shen Bingmiao's information, the demons and martial artists of the Prison Mountain Realm were rated by "Guans."

At first, this had merely been the difficulty rating assigned to bounties in the various towns of the Prison Mountain Realm. A demon-hunting bounty worth "one guan" was called a "One-Guan" demon.

A martial artist who could complete a "One-Guan" mission alone was naturally a martial artist with "One-Guan" strength.

The highest rating was "Twelve-Guans."

Thus, although a "Seven-Guans" martial artist seemed to be only one guan above a "Six-Guans" demon, they were actually two levels stronger.

That was because a "Seven-Guans" martial artist was, by definition, someone capable of defeating a "Seven-Guans" demon one-on-one.

So...

Three "Six-Guans" demons managing to bring down a "Seven-Guans" martial artist meant that something was definitely amiss. Lin Yu knew that much.

Sure enough, the twist came.

"At the beginning of the fight, I was ambushed, but I still quickly gained the upper hand. What I never expected was... the demon kidnapped my blood relatives and used them to threaten me. That was far beyond the intelligence a 'Six-Guans' demon should possess."

Even after wasting away for a year in this underground cavern, deep beneath the pool, Chen Yuanye still clenched his teeth in fury.

"But even so, I still defeated those three demons and rescued several of my relatives. What I never expected was..."