After defeating Yuwen Huaji, the Grand Commandant of the Great Sui Imperial Guards, and Du Fuwei, the "Universe in the Sleeve," with a single palm strike, news of "Hero An," the "Fierce Bear," single-handedly crushing the Sea Sand Gang's fleet of nearly ten thousand men and sending all ten massive ships to the bottom of the sea in an instant spread throughout the Central Plains martial world like wildfire.
And so!
The rumor that "it is better to encounter the Evil King than collide with the Fierce Bear! When the Evil King smiles, blood flows like water. When the Fierce Bear rages, heaven collapses and the earth splits!" was exaggerated even further.
From that point on, no one dared casually question Hero An's status as the world's fourth Grandmaster.
However, very few people could say what this "Hero An, the Fierce Bear" actually looked like. Some said she was a little girl, some said she was a beautiful young woman with a handsome face and a secret to preserve her youth, some said she was a fierce-looking, hunched old woman, and some even said she was a middle-aged man.
In any case, even the several thousand Sea Sand Gang members who had escaped with their lives back then had all offered different accounts, and no one could convince anyone else.
Since the Dongming Faction was said to have an extremely close relationship with Hero An, perhaps even some kind of marriage connection, the forces that had originally planned to move against the Dongming Faction all became wary and restrained. Conversely, some forces that had been on good terms with the Dongming Faction began preparing to pay visits under all sorts of pretexts. The Li Clan was one such example.
Wasn't that so?
Although they did not know that Annie was