"Tiger-Subduing Villa is really overbearing!"
"Overbearing? I'd say they're just throwing their weight around, acting like they can do whatever they want."
"Watch what you say. If they really take away your chance to hunt, let's see where you'll go crying."
"I refuse to believe that, in the vast Falling Mist Mountain Range, Tiger-Subduing Villa can reach its hands everywhere."
Fang Yuan's figure flickered through the woods. He heard hunters' angry muttering, their tempers clearly running short.
Tiger-Subduing Villa was the largest power outside Prefecture City. Its strength was only a hair's breadth below that of the Three Great Families in the city, and it had a great many retainers.
Its influence extended across a wide range of fields, including hunting, gathering herbs, fishing, and animal husbandry. It held considerable authority in all of them.
As the saying went:
Within Prefecture City, the Three Great Families ruled the skies; beyond its walls, the land belonged to Tiger-Subduing Villa.
Though that was an exaggeration, it showed just how deeply Tiger-Subduing Villa's might was ingrained in people's minds.
"Here!"
Fang Yuan soon reached the northeastern region of the Falling Mist Mountain Range.
The woods were rather quiet. Now and then, faint bird calls and insect cries could be heard, while the hot wind stirred the branches and leaves with a rustling sound.
Foundation Establishment cultivators had undergone a transformation of the body. They could go without food, drawing on the spiritual energy of heaven and earth to sustain themselves, and were unaffected by heat or cold.
Boom... Whoosh...
Suddenly, a tremendous crash rang out in the sky, followed by a series of explosive sounds as something tore through the air. White light flashed, and a massive shadow came plunging down.
Fang Yuan looked up.
High above, a Foundation Establishment True Person was