"Lord Fang Can, a crowd of onlookers has already gathered outside the Martial Hall."
"We hope you'll stay home and rest today. Please don't go out."
The hall masters tried to persuade him. After all, even ants could bring down an elephant.
Yesterday, Fang Can had already been pushed to his limit by a series of fights against more than thirty Heart Manifestation Warriors.
Now warriors from all the surrounding regions were rushing here. Some of them were surely treacherous sorts who might band together to surround him. The risks were considerable.
"No matter." Fang Can greeted the morning sun and stretched his newly recovered body. "I just made a breakthrough, so this is the perfect chance to test my mettle."
As he spoke, Fang Can strode out under everyone's worried gazes, shoved open the tightly shut doors, and roared at the clamoring crowd, "I am Fang Can! If you don't value your life, come and fight me!"
"Boom!"
Almost the instant he roared, five figures that had been hiding among the crowd leaped into the air. Each wielded a different weapon, and all of them swung at Fang Can.
The ground exploded beneath their feet, sending chunks of stone flying. They pierced the air and injured several onlookers.
Then the five powerful warriors unleashed their Heart Manifestations together, bearing down on Fang Can. A moment's distraction could leave him hacked apart by their blades.
But what made them falter was that their full-force Heart Manifestations struck him like waves against a rock, leaving not the slightest ripple.
"How is this possible?" The warriors who had never encountered such a thing before were horrified.
They had never seen this happen since awakening their Heart Manifestations. Unless the man in front of them had no heart at all.
This was Fang