Jiang Wuyou knew his friend Cang Wuyin was strong.However, he genuinely had no idea just how strong Cang Wuyin truly was.“Then I suppose I’ll get to see it this time. How the visible Jianghu differs from the invisible Jianghu.”Despite commanding nearly five hundred men, Shen Tianyuan could not completely hide his unease.He had moved as quickly as possible, but he had still departed later than the First Young Lord. More importantly, there was a considerable difference in numbers. Shen Tianyuan had struggled to gather around five hundred martial artists, while the First Young Lord had managed to mobilize seven hundred.“Shouldn’t we hurry a bit more?”“Didn’t you say the time difference was about half a shijin?”“Yes. If we hurry, we can catch up easily.”Unlike the restless Shen Tianyuan, Cang Wuyin walked at the front of the group with an easy pace. There was no sign that he felt rushed. To anyone unfamiliar with the situation, it might have looked as though he had simply left hom

“Keuk!”“Hheup!”The other stronghold masters of the Eighteen Green Forest Strongholds had joined the battle.But not all seventeen.Only six advanced.They split into pairs and attacked the three martial artists Zhaowen had brought with him. The result was far different from what anyone had expected. The men Zhaowen had dismissed as nothing more than bandit rabble did not fall before the three masters. Instead, they met them head-on and forced all three into a deadlock.Even the three martial artists seemed caught off guard. Their eyes widened as they struggled against opponents they had clearly expected to crush.“Still a bit lacking, huh. Then we just add more.”Sssssk!The Green Forest Great Lord spoke as casually as if he were discussing something insignificant.At his words, Jo Yang-hyeok raised his hand. Once again, six figures leapt from the cliff and charged into the battle.“Keuheuk!”“Such nonsense……!”The situation changed immediately.With three opponents now pressing aga

Cang Wuyin was a seasoned martial artist who had experienced countless battles, so Jo Yang-hyeok’s follow-up slash posed little threat. He bent his body backward with the Iron Plate Bridge technique, allowing the blade to pass over him without touching his body.“Impudent!”Jo Yang-hyeok’s eyes burned with anger after two consecutive attacks had failed to land. Being unable to touch an opponent so much younger than himself was more than a simple failure. To him, it was humiliating.But before he could launch another attack, Cang Wuyin moved.Claaang!His hands were still clasped behind his back as his body leaned so far backward that his head and back nearly touched the ground. At that exact moment, he raised one foot. Jo Yang-hyeok’s blade swept past his upper body, and Cang Wuyin kicked the weapon aside with the tip of his foot.“Khk!”Jo Yang-hyeok let out a suppressed groan.The impact traveling through his blade was already unpleasant, but the internal force carried through that

By a margin no wider than a sheet of paper, Cang Wuyin narrowly avoided the Green Forest Great Lord’s strike. Yet the Green Forest Great Lord knew something was wrong. The insolent young man standing before him still had room to spare. Cang Wuyin’s movements were short and efficient, while his own relied on a weapon that was almost as large as an ordinary man. Every swing of the Horse-Cleaving Saber required a broad movement, and that naturally consumed more stamina. He had also been releasing Blade Force without pause, which placed an even greater burden on his Inner Energy.Ssaeeaek!The instant that thought crossed his mind, the momentum of his blade changed. Instead of continuing to rely on overwhelming force, the Green Forest Great Lord began unfolding his techniques with greater precision. A fierce technique could send an opponent flying if it landed cleanly, but all that power meant nothing if the attack failed to connect. He understood that clearly, which was why he changed hi

“You worked hard, Hero Cang.”“You must have been on edge, right?”“Not at all. I trusted Hero Cang.”Shen Tianyuan approached Cang Wuyin with the escort unit behind him. Even after reaching him, he couldn’t help looking at Cang Wuyin again with undisguised wonder.Shen Tianyuan had believed Cang Wuyin could win. That was why he had been willing to place his bet on him in the first place. Still, he had never imagined the Green Forest Great Lord would be defeated so easily.Gulp!His eyes returned to the corpse lying on the ground.The Green Forest Great Lord had shaken the martial world with his evil reputation. He was someone even the Wolf King had regarded from a lower position. Yet that same man was now nothing more than a cold corpse.Even after seeing it with his own eyes, Shen Tianyuan found the sight difficult to accept.More importantly, he finally understood how lightly everyone had regarded the Eighteen Green Forest Strongholds.‘To think that even the elders of the Heavenly