"Have you heard?
That Dark Force brute Jiang Meng, who had shut himself away all over the place and moved from the southern county seat to the northern one,
was defeated by a disciple of Mountain-Breaking Stance Martial Academy!"
"Served him right. He went around committing evil everywhere. A few days ago, he came to our martial academy
and crippled a junior brother at the middle stage of Dark Force with one blow."
"Absolutely served him right. I heard he didn't even spare women.
The one guarding Xianghong Martial Academy was the beautiful, buxom Seventh Junior Sister. How many martial academy disciples had drooled over her?
Yet that bastard crushed her throat with one hand, shattering that female disciple's chest cavity and hip bone.
She wouldn't even be able to marry for the rest of her life."
"Jiang Meng got what he deserved. The yamen won't say anything either—this is the price one must pay for challenging a martial academy.
Say, was it Lin Hu who made the move, or Liu Mingze?"
"No, brother, are you stupid or what...? Those two went to take the Martial Arts Examination. They won't be back until today.
It was another disciple from Mountain-Breaking Stance Martial Academy. I think his name was Duan Xuan.
Right, right, right—it was Duan Xuan!"
"Hiss, there was actually such a ruthless man? How come I've never heard of him?
Could he be an old disciple who used to hold an outside post?"
"Apparently not. They said he joined the martial academy at the same time as Lin Hu and Liu Mingze, and was their senior brother."
"So he was their senior brother. Then it wasn't strange..."
Chen Feng's group returned from Yellow Snake County's inner city. Along the way, his mouth nearly curved crooked from smiling.
This was