"Heroes, brave warriors, please stay for some tea and a meal as a small token of gratitude from our Mountain Forest Village!" Seeing them about to leave, the village chief hurried to persuade them to stay.
Uncle Qi understood the village chief's thoughts perfectly. Smiling, he pointed at Huang Xiao. "This young fellow said he would rest here for the night. With him here, you needn't worry about any more bandits."
With that, their party rode swiftly out of Mountain Forest Village, heading toward Everlasting Spring Mountain.
After they had traveled several li, the young master frowned and asked, "Uncle Qi, we don't know who that fellow is. Besides, with the strength he just displayed, how could he be injured? He was clearly lying. Could he be...?"
"It doesn't seem so, but we can't let our guard down. There seemed to be something strange about that fellow's aura just now. I can't quite make sense of it. Never mind. Our priority now is to reach Everlasting Spring Valley! Hyah!"
The young master pondered briefly. Seeing that Uncle Qi had already pulled several zhang ahead, he squeezed his horse's flanks, shouted "Hyah!" and caught up.
Huang Xiao was now Mountain Forest Village's Benefactor, and the villagers came forward one after another to kowtow and thank him.
"Young Hero Huang, if you don't mind my humble home, would you stay there tonight?" the village chief asked. He had just learned Huang Xiao's surname.
Although Huang Xiao calmly acknowledged the villagers' thanks, the meridians and dantian inside his body were a scene of devastation, turned utterly upside down.
He had been able to kill One-Eyed Wolf and the other bandits so easily only because he had forcibly used Power-Enhancing. Though he had not raised his power to the First-Class level, even that increase