"Today, we settle both superiority and victory!"
Feng Ping solemnly cupped his hands and performed the greeting of an ancient martial artist.
Opposite him, an old martial arts master with a face full of flesh wore an expression like his balls ached, yet he still gritted his teeth and cupped his hands. "Hong Xing of the Eight Punishment Fist requests Master Feng's guidance!"
Hong Xing had long known that some hotheaded fool was challenging the various martial arts schools, and that he struck dirty and viciously, making people lose a great deal of face.
More importantly... official forces of Great Xin seemed to be standing behind this man, reducing every scheme to use official power against him to bubbles.
As for resorting to underhanded methods?
It wasn't as though no one had tried to ambush Feng Ping. The most famous incident was when he had been blocked in a dead-end alley by over a hundred knife-wielding thugs.
Yet that battle ended with Feng Ping utterly unscathed, while over a hundred knife men lay strewn across the ground with broken hands and legs!
That battle made Feng Ping famous. Photos of him fighting in blood-soaked clothes even trended online, and dumbass netizens crowned him the "Blood-Cloaked Martial God" of a generation!
It was from that moment that Hong Xing knew he definitely could not beat him. Absolutely not.
This time, when Feng Ping came knocking, and Hong Xing saw the many spectators around them holding cameras and phones, he never considered playing dirty. He couldn't afford to, either.
He only wanted to perform a set of his ancestral Eight Punishment Fist, last a few moves longer than the others in his trade, and earn himself the honor of a glorious defeat. That would be enough to make it worthwhile.
"My Eight