Chapter 100: I, Hong Yuan, Have No Habit of Feeding My Enemies Experience
Thirty li north of Qingxu County, snow blanketed the woods around a secluded mountain hollow.
Screee!
A piercing cry tore through the air as a magnificent black eagle circled overhead, beat its wings, and swooped down.
A gray figure shot out of the hollow, racing nimbly along the slippery, muddy mountain path beneath its layer of snow. In a flash, he reached a broken cliff and whistled.
The black eagle cried again and flapped over.
The gray figure was a powerfully built middle-aged man with a square face and broad mouth. His hair was disheveled, his temples slightly graying, as though he had not groomed himself in a long time.
He looked exhausted, his eyes riddled with bloodshot veins.
His name was Guo Xiaochuan, the Guo Family's third-ranking figure after Guo Zhen and Guo Wei.
Originally a member of a collateral branch, he had risen to prominence after the two recognized his outstanding abilities and promoted him. His loyalty to them was absolute.
Hatred filled his bloodshot eyes. He stroked the feathers of the eagle perched on his shoulder, removed a bamboo tube from its claw, and crushed it with a crack, leaving a wad of paper in his palm.
Guo Xiaochuan pulled a fat, squeaking mountain rat from his robes and fed it to the black eagle, then sprang back toward the hollow.
A large stretch of black pine forest grew there. A hundred zhang into the woods, a spacious cave lay beneath a tangled covering of vines.
Candlelight flickered inside the cave, where dozens of people hid. Some silently chewed cold, tough strips of meat; others wiped their weapons. Each carried a fierce air and reeked of killing intent.
They were the remnants of the