Duan Xuan bit the flesh on either side of his lips.
It was one thing for the gossip to land on his own head, but how had this fire spread to him too?
"Ah, yes, yes, Senior Brothers and Junior Brothers, you're right. Black Wolf Guest fights with his brain. I'm absolutely no match for him!"
"Brother Duan, there's really no need to be so modest. You killed Jiang Meng, that seven-crown brute who defeated Chu Feng. Your real combat ability already surpasses us martial brothers. You can surely last seventy-five moves against Black Wolf Guest!" Zhang Chen said with a chuckle.
His words drew the attention of the four young women, including Chen Jingyun and Chen Jingshu.
Although the twin sisters had remained at the martial arts hall these past few months, they had actually rarely seen Duan Xuan fight.
Still, since he had preserved the martial arts hall's honor, they were willing to believe he could exchange a few moves with Black Wolf Guest.
"With the year-end approaching, the merchants in the county will organize another hunting trip into the mountains.
"Black Wolf Guest haunts the deep mountains. We might even catch sight of him!" Zhang Chen recalled the grand Hunting event held by the merchant association every year and could not help feeling somewhat dejected.
He had taken part in it both last year and the year before. Though he had not won any ranking or reward from the merchant association, he had trained in the deep mountains and caught plenty of valuable prey.
Exchanged for silver, they had brought in no small sum.
Did ordinary martial artists not rely on meat and silver to stabilize their own vitality and blood?
Yet this year, he had entered Dark Force, so he could no longer take part in