"Young Master Mu... so you were the one who killed Mu Kui's son..."
Huang Jing looked at Lu Hao with mixed feelings. He had never expected the person he had been searching for to be this kid.
"Mu Kui?"
"The commander you mentioned. Three days ago, Mu Kui brought a group of Earth Cave martial artists and tried to enter the Meat Grinder. I stopped them and only let those below Rank Six in."
"You can't blame me for that, right? He was swaggering around the Meat Grinder all by himself. Who else was I supposed to kill?"
Lu Hao spoke with a sheepish, guilty look.
"All right, I'm not blaming you. Just don't put yourself in such danger again. If I hadn't arrived in time, you would've died back there.
"And don't stir up trouble in the Meat Grinder again. This time, our major battle with Heavenly Gate City had just ended, so there weren't many people inside, and they all managed to withdraw in time.
"Otherwise, who knows how many martial artists we would've lost because of your stunt..."
Huang Jing's expression was stern.
"Okay, I understand."
Lu Hao wore an expression that said he knew he had been wrong.
Following Huang Jing, Lu Hao made it back to Hope City without incident.
As soon as they arrived, several middle-aged men gathered around, looking at the Rank Six corpse Huang Jing was carrying.
"Grandmaster Huang, what happened over there? What could have made a Rank Six martial artist enter Hope City's sphere of influence regardless of the cost?"
"Nothing major. This kid killed Mu Kui's son three days ago, so Mu Kui sent a group of middle-rank martial artists into the Meat Grinder to hunt him down."
Huang Jing pointed at Lu Hao.
Upon hearing that Lu Hao