Liang Youshan in Danger, Han Debiao Seeks Help

Deep within the Azure Spirit Mountain Range, thunderous explosions that echoed through the heavens rang out intermittently from a dense bamboo forest, while flames soared skyward.

In an open clearing, large numbers of green bamboo stalks had been snapped cleanly in half.

Han Debiao and Liang Youshan stood close together, their faces slightly pale and their clothes stained with quite a bit of brown blood.

Three men and one woman surrounded them tightly. Their leader was a tall, thin old man in a green robe. His features were regular, he wore a long beard, and he was a late-stage Golden Core cultivator.

"Fellow Daoist Chen, I already told you: your Azure Mist Valley people were killed by Golden Wolf Society cultivators. It had nothing to do with us."

Han Debiao said with a frown, his tone grave.

He and Liang Youshan had formed a Monster Hunting Squad and made their living hunting demon beasts. Their lives were decent enough, but over time, friction with other monster hunting squads was unavoidable. Disputes over prey happened often. Without a Nascent Soul Cultivator backing him, Han Debiao could only do his best to avoid conflicts with other monster hunting squads.

His idea was sound, but the other monster hunting squads did not see things that way. Conflicts still broke out from time to time.

Not long ago, while Han Debiao was leading his Monster Hunting Squad in hunting demon beasts, they encountered Golden Wolf Society cultivators slaughtering Azure Mist Valley cultivators. Following the principle that less trouble was better than more, he had ignored it. Yet the people of Azure Mist Valley believed that they had joined forces with the Golden Wolf Society cultivators to wipe out the Azure Mist Valley cultivators.

Han Debiao felt they had been wronged, but the Azure Mist