Overlord Blade Martial Hall

Chen Xuan dragged the flatbed cart and quickly left home under his mother's watchful gaze, heading in the direction he had long since chosen.

The evening glow gradually spilled across the sky.

The day was drawing to an end, and Chen Xuan could not help quickening his pace.

At the same time, information about Overlord Blade Martial Hall surfaced in his mind.

Overlord Blade Martial Hall was one of Green Mountain City's four great martial halls, as well as a peak second-rate force within the city.

In Green Mountain City, the greatest force was undoubtedly the City Lord's Mansion. Below it came the four great martial halls, including Overlord Blade Martial Hall, followed by the two gangs, Fierce Mountain Hall and White Horse Hall.

As a first-rate force, the City Lord's Mansion was unquestionably the strongest. According to the information revealed by Chen Xuan's Conceptual Ability, it even possessed martial arts experts in the Viscera Refining Realm.

The four great martial halls were somewhat weaker than the City Lord's Mansion, but their hall masters were nearly all experts of the Bone Refining Realm.

That was precisely why the four great martial halls could suppress the two gangs.

If a martial hall disciple could complete their training, they could even easily become a gang boss in one of the two gangs, managing nearly a hundred skilled fighters.

Of course, the martial halls also varied in strength.

Rumor had it that the master of Overlord Blade Martial Hall had suffered grievous injuries years ago and could no longer fight. Among the four great martial halls, Overlord Blade Martial Hall was undoubtedly the weakest.

That was also why the other three great martial halls were located in the Inner City, while Overlord Blade Martial Hall was situated in the Outer City.

Of course, none of that had much to do with Chen Xuan.

For him, as long as the Blood Refining Manual he obtained was no worse than those of the other martial halls, that was enough.

As for everything else, it was not a problem for him. With his Conceptual Ability, he could accomplish things ordinary people could not even imagine.

He strode onward.

Just as evening was about to fall, Chen Xuan finally dragged the flatbed cart to an enormous residence.

Yes, a residence.

If the two-courtyard house he had bought was already fairly large, then the residence before him was more than ten times larger still.

Though its walls were mottled with age and much of the paint beneath its eaves had peeled away, one could still vaguely see the lavishness it had once possessed.

Chen Xuan drew a deep breath, then knocked on the gate.

"Coming!"

"Who is it?"

As Chen Xuan knocked, a loud voice rang out from within the courtyard.

A moment later, the gate opened, and a burly man appeared before Chen Xuan.

"Who are you looking for?"

The burly man paused when he saw the youth before him, then asked in puzzlement.

"I came to see Master Xie. Didn't Master Xie need Tiger Hearts?"

Chen Xuan smiled as he spoke, then directly lifted the covering from atop the flatbed cart.

"This is...?"

The burly man was initially stunned by Chen Xuan's words. Then he saw what Chen Xuan had uncovered, and his pupils suddenly contracted.

"Wait here!"

"I'll report this at once!"

The burly man hurriedly spoke.

He then rushed toward the inner courtyard.

Chen Xuan was in no hurry and simply waited.

Meanwhile.

Inside the inner room.

"Cough, cough, cough!"

Urgent coughing echoed without end. An elderly figure seated in a wheelchair wore a sickly pallor, his right hand holding a tissue over his lips.

When he lowered the tissue, vivid red blood had soaked through it.

"Father!"

Seeing the crimson tissue, the beautiful young woman beside him felt her heart clench and hurried forward.

"I'm fine, Yunhua. It's an old ailment!"

"How was it? Did you sense a deeper level of true meaning this time?"

Xie Qingshan waved his hand, then looked at his daughter with anticipation.

Seeing the expectant look in Xie Qingshan's eyes, Xie Yunhua sighed. In the end, she still shook her head.

"Alas, this is ultimately only a copy I made. It cannot be mentioned in the same breath as a complete True Meaning Diagram. Even with the aid of a Tiger Heart, completing it will still be no easy task."

"But if we try a few more times, you should have a chance."

Seeing Xie Yunhua shake her head, disappointment flickered through Xie Qingshan's heart. Yet he quickly concealed it and began comforting his daughter.

"I know, Father!"

"But Father, is one Tiger Heart really worth handing the Blood Refining Manual over to those people? Not many of them may sincerely wish to join our martial hall."

Listening to Xie Qingshan's reassurance, Xie Yunhua could not help speaking up.

During this period, her father had already agreed to accept twelve people in order to gather Tiger Hearts. It was impossible to tell how many of those twelve harbored ulterior motives or had crooked hearts.

Yet as long as they could provide a Tiger Heart, her father accepted them all without exception. He had even promised that once they reached the peak of Skin Refining, they would have the chance to read the Blood Refining Manual.

Xie Yunhua truly could not understand it.

Tiger Hearts were uncommon and important. They could even serve as one of the main ingredients in the secret medicine used to enter the Blood Refining Realm. Even so, their value was clearly nowhere near comparable to a Blood Refining Manual.

Across all of Green Mountain City, only the City Lord's Mansion, the four great martial halls, and the two gangs possessed Blood Refining Manuals.

Every single one was something that had a price but no market.

No matter how precious a Tiger Heart was, it was worth roughly one hundred taels. The two simply were not on the same level.

"You don't need to concern yourself with that!"

"We don't have much time left. If you can reach Blood Refining Stage Three as soon as possible, we may still have a chance. Otherwise, there will be no time left. By then, this Blood Refining Manual will no longer mean anything."

Xie Qingshan shook his head and spoke softly.

His thoughts drifted far away.

Faced with her father's words,

Xie Yunhua only became more confused. But before she could speak again and ask further, there came a knock at the door.

"Senior Sister, Master, someone outside has brought another Tiger Heart!"

The burly man's voice sounded from beyond the door.

"Bring him in!"

As the voice rang out, Xie Yunhua's confusion receded, and Xie Qingshan spoke at once.

"Yes!"

The burly man answered, then quickly departed.

At the gate.

Chen Xuan waited only a short while.

The burly man had already come back out.

"Master wants you to come in!"

The burly man spoke, his right hand skillfully taking hold of Chen Xuan's flatbed cart.

What made Chen Xuan's pupils contract was that the burly man used only one arm to lift the entire flatbed cart cleanly off the ground.

The giant tiger alone weighed more than five hundred jin, while the flatbed cart itself weighed over a hundred jin. Yet the burly man raised it with such ease.

Clearly, the man's one-armed strength was at least a thousand jin.

With such terrifying strength, any Tyson or boxing champion from Chen Xuan's past life would have been a joke.

Yet here, in nothing more than a small city and a single martial hall, such a person existed.

Perhaps this world's power system was even more terrifying and more powerful than he had expected.

His formal martial training had begun. A new journey had begun.