Chapter Nineteenth: The Struggle in Jianghu

  "Master Han, you really are out of touch with the world, how could you not know about something so big? Even if you were in seclusion, your master should have mentioned it to you." Xiaosuan's tone seemed to be filled with suspicion again.

  Han Li listened and without saying a word, he quickly took out a token from his body and handed it to Xiao Suanpan.

  "Hey, Brother Han, what's going on? Can't I trust you anymore? As soon as I saw you, I felt like we'd met before, haha!" He quickly glanced at the waist card with the corner of his eye, seeing it was real, and hastily put on a smile.

  "Can you tell me now?" Han Li was still concerned about the question he had just asked.

  "Of course, of course."

  "Trouble, I'm afraid I've offended the guy in front of me." Xiaosuan muttered to himself, but his mouth was completely honest and spilled everything out.

  For years, the conflict between Qi Xuan Men and Wild Wolf Gang has been escalating. Both sides have fought over a dozen large and small battles for several rich towns with unclear ownership, resulting in significant losses on both sides. Because the members of the Wild Wolf Gang were trained using a set of training methods similar to those used for horse thieves, they were extremely ruthless in battle, becoming even more frenzied at the sight of blood. In contrast, while the disciples of Qi Xuan Men had higher martial arts skills, they lacked that same level of ruthlessness and tended to hold back during intense fighting, resulting in more casualties on their side. After several consecutive battles, the leaders of Qi Xuan Men could no longer sit still, dispatching most of the inner door disciples to participate in the upcoming series of battles between the two sides. On one hand, they were determined not to lose these territories; on the other hand, they wanted their disciples to experience the cruelty of the Jianghu world and temper themselves through actual combat experience.

  The result was that in the subsequent killings, the Seventh Xuanmen again gained the upper hand, but the number of casualties among the inner door disciples was too high. Many older brothers who went out never came back. Speaking of this, Xiao Suanpan also sighed endlessly.

  Later on, several door masters changed their strategy and let the inner disciples go to perform some unimportant tasks first, go to other places to gain experience, after gaining a certain amount of Jianghu experience, then participate in the battle with the Wild Wolf Gang. As a result, casualties were greatly reduced. So this strategy was formally incorporated into the door rules within these two years, requiring all disciples to go down the mountain for training after leaving the school, and only then can they be granted internal positions.

  In this way, most of the older senior brothers on the mountain were dispatched to the foot of the mountain. Now they are either entangled with the Wild Wolf Gang or have gone to participate in the trial. In the mountains, except for the necessary guardian disciples, only these young and inexperienced disciples who had not yet come out of their apprenticeship remained.

  It wasn't until then that Han Li suddenly realized and understood why the mountain was different from before.

  "Bang!" A loud noise, a soft sword flew into the air.

  Zhao Ziling's left hand pressed against the tiger's mouth on his right hand, which was injured, and he retreated several steps with a pale face, panting heavily.

  He was just under the swift and fierce consecutive knife momentum of Li Shi Xiong, unable to dodge in time, and was forced to use his hand-held soft sword to block it. As a result, he was shocked by the huge force transmitted through the knife, causing him to fly out of his hand-held weapon.

  "Awesome, Brother Li! You're indeed formidable. I, younger brother, concede defeat." Zhao Ziling forced a smile and bowed.

  The surroundings suddenly erupted in waves of cheers.

  "Awesome, Brother Lei! What great kung fu!"

  "Awesome swordsmanship, Brother Lei!"

  "Brother Lei, give me some advice!"

  One by one, the reluctant cries of discontent rose up against their idols and echoed throughout the entire venue.

  Lethal brother put away the long knife, a few strands of faint red flush on his face, just wanted to say something. Suddenly, his face changed, furrowed his brow, as if he remembered something.

  He clenched his fists and said coolly: "I still have some urgent matters to attend to, I'll take my leave first."

  She turned around and floated lightly out of the arena, revealing a handsome and agile lightness skill, disappearing into the pine forest beside the mountain cliff.

  "Hiss! Lethal Brother's knife skills are not only good, but his lightness kung fu is also very impressive!"

  "Exactly!"

  "Exactly!"

  Round after round of applause erupted again.

  Han Li furrowed his brow. This stern brother's kung fu was indeed good, but he seemed to like showing off a bit, probably due to being young and vigorous.

  He turned his head and thought, he couldn't help but smile wryly. He didn't seem to be much older than these people, so why did he always think like an old man? It seemed that practicing those mouthfuls had made him feel completely aged.

  "This junior brother of mine, I still don't know what your name is?" Han Li glanced at the small abacus standing beside him and suddenly asked his name.

  "My name is Jin Dongbao, but Brother Han can just call me Xiao Suanpan." Xiao Suanpan became excited as soon as he heard Han Li ask for his name, apparently thinking that he had found a powerful backer.

  "If you get sick or injured in the future, just look for me and I'll treat you for free." Han Li patted his shoulder, glanced at the crowd that had started arguing again in the arena, and then walked into the nearby pine forest without looking back.

  Jin Dongbao, who was left on the spot, was still staring blankly in a daze, and for a while he didn't know what he meant by what he said.