The official from Southern Martial Association and his female assistant arrived at the southern border of the Fist clan on foot.Currently, only Hector was there guarding the border as everyone else went for lunch that was just three houses away.Seeing the two people coming, Hector got up, yawned and snapped his fingers before his mouth.As the official and the assistant were walking past him, he recognized the blue and white uniform of the official, but still said, “Stop right there and identify yourself!”“Can’t you see the uniform?” the female assistant annoyedly said. “He’s an official from the southern martial association. Bow your head to him.”Hector turned around and bent, showing his ass to them.“What the hell are you doing, you mongrel!” the female assistant drew her sword and slashed it with a double-handed grip.Hector stood on his hands and deflected the sword with his wooden sandals before striking her chest with a thrusting kick that sent her flying back.The official

Gunnar escorted Joss and Alysse up to the border, though they didn’t share a single word.After how Joss disrespectfully talked with his father, Gunnar didn’t feel any urge to be respectful to them.But then again, he was the one who’s responsible for all this, so he went out of his way to see them off.When they reached the border, Hector snorted, “Already back? I wasn’t expecting you to achieve anything here, though. Why don’t you go back and tell your superior that the Devil Knife clan deserved whatever they got? Didn’t you see the pit of bones? Those bastards ate humans. And that explains all the kidnappings that happened in the past few decades.“So, if you really believe that the Fist clan is behind their murders, then you should actually reward us for our good deeds and for restoring law and order and peace and happiness and love and caring and…” he kept talking, and his words were like slaps in Alysse’s face.Joss, however, was walking away like nothing happened.“This isn’t l

Gunnar was seriously practicing in the underground training hall, which hadn’t been used by anybody other than himself ever since he returned to the clan.He was highly motivated to learn the Flash Fist and Flash Step faster because he wanted to prove to everyone before the wedding that he was a cultivator, not an ordinary cultivator but one who would have had managed to decently grasp at least two of the three Grand Trio techniques.In the past century or so, the Fist clan had three staple movement techniques that its cultivators mostly depended on.The first technique was the Spring Foot technique, which required one to release a pulse of energy through the balls of their feet, helping themselves to bounce off the ground like a spring and propel forward or in any direction at a rapid pace.Among the young ones, Gunnar’s second brother Ivan was known for using this technique excellently.The second technique was the Duck Foot technique, which required one to release energy through th

Bessy and Dahlia were hiding in the bushes.They were only talking with their eyes and slow hand gestures because there was a four-horned deer about eighty feet from them.It was an eight-foot-tall deer, without counting the height of its horns.Dahlia took out her sword and patiently waited for the deer to come closer.However, the deer grazed on the fallen fruits and was going the other way.Bessy gestured to Dahlia that she’d divert the deer, so Dahlia should be ready.Bessy then used a mini-bow to shoot an arrow into the sky.The arrow flew and fell right in front of the deer, making it turn and come rushing straight toward the bushes.With a massive leap, it jumped over the bushes.“So fast,” Dahlia was startled by its speed, but she reacted as fast as she could and thrust her sword up.Her sword pierced the bottom side of the deer, forcing the deer to crash and collapse.Its intestines fell out.It began to convulse and twitch.Dahlia stabbed its throat and gave it a quick death

The Roseclaw clan was best known for selling rabbit and squirrel meat and also for exporting roses to the merchants every month.“Father, look. I caught two fawns,” a sixteen-year-old curly-haired girl brought two fawns in a cage and showed them to her dad and the elders of the clan.“Sasha,” her dad, Gordon, didn’t look too happy. “Did you kill their mothers?”“Yes.”“You should have kept them alive, too,” Gordon voiced his mind. “You do know that our clan has been trying to raise deer, sell their meat and make a business out of them.”“Next time, I’ll try to bring them alive,” Sasha apologized.“The deer that live in the Seven Stellar mountain range all have four horns,” Gordon, a thin man with a long beard, said. “They sell for a great price, but the problem is that these deer are found deep in the mountains. It’s not easy to come across one around the borders, so if we can breed them here, then we can earn a lot of money.”They weren’t planning to sell live deer to outsiders but o