Senior Brother Wei was greatly alarmed and shouted, "You brat, what... what are you doing?"
Zhang Xiaohua turned around and grinned, revealing a row of white teeth, looking utterly innocent. "Senior Brother, aren't you asking something you already know? Can't you see? I'm breaking the formation. I'm going to force my way up Yi Xiang Peak!!"
Zhang Xiaohua did not say much, nor did he speak loudly, yet to Senior Brother Wei and the others, his words were like rolling thunder.
"Force his way up Yi Xiang Peak"?
Th-this young man wasn't joking, was he!!!
Ever since Senior Brother Wei—oh, no, ever since the Ruijin Hall disciples around him had come of age, they had never heard the phrase "force one's way up Yi Xiang Peak"! Even after becoming guards assigned to protect Yi Xiang Peak, they had never imagined that anyone would dare force their way up it!
At once, one disciple beside him burst out laughing. "Junior Brother, y-you don't have a fever and start babbling nonsense, do you?"
As soon as he said that, the others also laughed. The surprise on their faces lessened somewhat, while the mockery in their eyes grew thicker.
Zhang Xiaohua ignored them. Disdain flowed from his eyes as he gripped the long sword in his right hand and hacked once more at the formation protecting the peak. This protective formation was somewhat beyond Zhang Xiaohua's expectations. Meng and Zhang Ping'er had not explained it clearly before; Zhang Xiaohua had thought that only the foot of Yi Xiang Peak was protected by a formation. He had also walked some distance upward from the Medicinal Garden within Lihuo Hall without encountering any formation, and Meng, Xi Mujun, and the inner disciples all came down freely. Thus, Zhang Xiaohua had not known that formations guarded