"It was a fortunate coincidence, and I was only protecting myself. You're giving me too much credit, Brother Xu."
Qin Fang shook his head calmly.
Xu Meng's expression turned solemn. "That's not how it is... Sigh, I promised Master Zhou I'd take good care of you, but I never imagined that the moment you arrived, you'd be caught in such danger. Instead, you ended up saving my life... I won't forget a kindness this great. I'll remember it, Brother, and repay you someday."
His expression was sincere. Clearly, he had taken this kindness to heart.
Qin Fang said no more and changed the subject. "Did you catch up with those knife-wielders?"
Xu Meng was stunned for a moment. Then a few murderous glints appeared in his eyes. "I killed them all."
After all, Xu Meng was a genuine Bright Force expert. Those knife-wielders knew a few moves, but when they faced a Bright Force martial artist bent on killing them, they were simply outmatched.
Earlier, Xu Meng had been cornered because Deng Chuan had ambushed him. Deng Chuan was also a Bright Force martial artist, and their cultivation levels were evenly matched. With the advantage of striking first, Deng Chuan had forced him steadily onto the back foot.
Even so, the others hadn't dared to swarm him and hack away with their knives... The gap between them was just too great.
If the knife-wielders had really rushed him all at once, they might instead have disrupted Deng Chuan's rhythm and given Xu Meng a chance to seize the initiative.
Now that Deng Chuan was dead, the rest had been scared witless by Qin Fang and were thinking only of escaping... How could they possibly be a match for Xu Meng?
He'd caught up with every last one of them and