The Magistrate of Anping County

Anping County.

The wind of early autumn blew in from the end of Willow Alley, carrying the smell of burning straw from the fields.

Ye An crouched before a freshly heaped grave. Farther up the slope stood an older one, the two graves side by side, one old and one new.

After Stone had taken his revenge, Black Crow had set his sights on him and brought him back to the Heaven Overturning Cult. Stone had never had the chance to go home and tell his father about it.

Father and son, once separated by life and death, had probably met again by now.

Ye An stood. Dry earth still clung to his hands.

Two wooden swords stood planted before Stone's grave.

Ye An did not know much about such things, but he remembered how he and Stone had played on the mountain as children, both declaring that they would become great heroes.

He set the two wooden swords in a cross before the grave, one in front of the other. Ye An would walk the rest of the road for them.

During this time, Ye An had returned to neither the Four Symbols Sect nor the Demon Suppressing Guard. He had stayed in Anping County.

He spent time with his family without falling behind in his martial arts training.

He had told no one he was coming to Anping County. Only his family knew.

The name Ye An had made for himself in Cangwu Prefectural City had spread far enough that nearly every household in Anping County knew a martial arts prodigy had come out of Willow Alley.

Now he was the Chief Disciple of the Four Symbols Sect's Black Tortoise Hall, with cultivation beyond Meridian Opening.

Someone who had undergone Third Body Tempering was already a big figure