"Ah-Xue~" Hearing Xiao Jiao'er call out, Qiu Shuang grew curious as well and asked Chun Xue beside her, "I don't quite understand either. Why didn't he start by challenging the weakest? If he won one or two that way, at least he wouldn't lose too miserably and disgrace the Body Sect, right?"
"Li Shixin in that forest is clearly stronger than Zuo Fangming with the snake staff. Even I could tell that."
"Isn't he afraid of getting knocked flat right from the start?"
After thinking for a moment, Chun Xue replied, "I can't see through him either. Perhaps he wants to face an opponent as formidable as Mad Lion while he is at his peak, to see if he can defeat him. If he cannot even win at full strength, then he could never make it through them all."
Listening nearby, Jiang Ruoyun curiously asked, "Feng Gege, is that so?"
Qiu Shuang and the others all turned their gazes toward Lu Feng, wanting to see what insight this close friend of Tang Yuan might offer.
Lu Feng did not answer directly. He first glanced at the first incense stick already lit before Xiao Jiao'er, then swept his gaze across the Martial Arts Arena, toward Tang Yuan and Mad Lion chasing and pulling at each other through the forest.
Seeing that the two were still probing one another and would not use their true moves anytime soon, he slowly answered Jiang Ruoyun's question. "What Old Tang wants is not merely to make it past a few people. Whether for his parents or for proving his own path, he must knock all six of them beneath his fists."
"If he only wanted to vent the anger from their earlier provocation by going straight for Zuo Fangming, then there would be no need