Sword Among Us

The built and tanned leader was Abu, a famous underground boxer in Thailand. He had inborn advantage when it came to Arm Strength and Affinity. Since he had been training his fists and legs for a long time, his Arm Strength had reached an astonishing 220, and his Affinity was 219. One iron punch that had no technique whatsoever could deal more than eight thousand damage, and if he attacked with full power, some of the body fortifications of normal Life and Death martial artists had a difficult time withstanding it.

His name as Thailand’s best boxer was well deserved.

The reason he came over was because of an invitation to challenge Happy’s position as the strongest in China. On top of that, since the pay-to-view battle replay system had become popular all over the world, he clearly knew about the profit he might get from winning against Happy.

Even though the profit he gained from Thailand’s boxing studios was pretty good, even if he opened his boxing studio for a hundred years, he would never be able to gain the profit he could get from having one successful and popular battle replay.

For his challenge, Abu brought his most outstanding disciples from the boxing studio as well as some boxing friends from Vietnam whose strength was about the same as his.

The people who had been killed earlier were his disciples as well as some of his friends’ disciples!

Even though he felt his heart clench in pain and was seething in rage, it did not affect his priorities.

When he heard Rampaging Dragon treat him in such a dismissive manner, he quickly placated his men before he answered in a deep voice.

“Alright! Since you want to brush us off with normal members, then we will fight Mu Clan to the last person! I’d like to see just how many people you can lose.”

The arrogant words made the Mu Clan members livid.

“You haven’t even fought us yet, and you’re already spewing so much nonsense.” Rampaging Dragon rolled his eyes. He was not provoked at all, and neither did he fall into the trap.

“They came from far away. Be a gentleman,” he said to the person he had chosen for the fight.

He ordered it in an apparent seriousness, and it caused the people on Abu’s side to seethe with anger again. Their eyes filled with red, and they really wanted to tear Rampaging Dragon to shreds.

All-powerful Medicinal Stone chose to keep a rather low profile and answered with a very troubled expression. “But I don’t fight against others often…”

Silence fell, and Abu nearly fell to his knees in his anger.

“A’lang, you go!”

Just to be on the safe side, Abu ordered his eldest disciple to go up and fight.

Even though his eldest disciple’s Arm Strength had yet to reach the 200s, he had rich experience in fighting, and he had already inherited Abu’s brutality in fights. If they used the standards of the Chinese martial artists to measure his power, he could be around the fifties on Dragon Rank.

There might be quite a number of elites from Mu Clan who were on Dragon Rank, but he had information about everyone, and he did not have any impression about the ugly middle-aged man who did not seem to have woken up completely. He should not be someone who was especially powerful.

Abu believed that it was Mu Clan’s way to test their strength before they sent elites for the subsequent fights. Hence, he decided not to fight at all but instead sent his disciple take his place to deal with the unfamiliar person.

“Yes, master!”

Alang was a young, thin, and tanned youngster who had been following Abu the whole time. He had a fiery temper, and he had wanted to charge out to fight against Mu Clan multiple times.

In the beginning, their people had been shot to death. Then, Rampaging Dragon had repeatedly looked down on them, so he had already accumulated an endless amount of anger as well as killing intent in his chest. When he heard his master order him to attack, a savage smile instantly formed on his thin and dark face.

Abu did not find this strange.

Thai boxing placed a great emphasis on killing intent. A’lang’s killing intent would

 only increase his battle power.

The youth clenched his fists, and his bones started cracking. He bared his teeth and walked toward the training ground surrounded by the rows of logs through the path opened up by the people in the center.

All-powerful Medicinal Stone said nothing.

He followed behind A’lang in great resignation, which made it seem like he was an innocent bystander caught up in an unfamiliar situation. He shook his head, but he did not say anything that would diminish his might. He quietly drew his weapon and followed behind A’lang like a slob while looking to be very dissatisfied with his task.

The Mu Clan members might have known that they had All-powerful Medicinal Stone among them, but they only knew that he was pretty good at thieving and had good lightness skills, but compared to the dangerous-looking man in front of him, he looked like an egg going up against a stone.

Was Rampaging Dragon’s decision really the right one?

But while they were skeptical, they could not question or refute Rampaging Dragon’s decision.

When they saw All-powerful Medicinal Stone and A’lang, who were two people with completely different temperaments, standing across each other on the training ground, they held their breaths and prepared to watch the battle attentively.

Even though A’lang wanted to immediately kill his opponent, he forced himself to hold back his urge to attack. Since he was in an official environment, he did not want to give the Mu Clan members a chance to slander his people. He wrapped his fist in his palm and stated his identity in a cold and ghastly manner.

“A’lang, Thai boxer. Please grant me your instructions.”

All-powerful Medicinal Stone wrapped his fist in his palm as well. “Chinese player, Marvelous-handed Sect.”

“Marvelous-handed Sect?” Abu frowned while standing before him.

Someone beside him “kindly” explained things to him. “Oh, he’s a thief, though you could probably call him a robber as well.”

The person who spoke was Rampaging Dragon. He cast an indifferent glance at Abu and his group, and when he found their faces had turned red with rage, he looked away as if he had not noticed it. He stared at the training ground instead.

“Since this is a friendly international match, let’s stop at an appropriate moment and not go overboard,” All-powerful Medicinal Stone suggested.

When A’lang heard this, his gaze darkened, and he retorted loudly. “This is a fight between martial artists, and only through life and death can we see who is stronger. What’s the point of holding back? If you’re a man, you’ll fight me to the death!”

“Then if neither of us dies, what happens? Are we going to keep fighting?” All-powerful Medicinal Stone asked in a very strange tone.

“Don’t worry, if I can’t win against you within one hundred moves, I’ll willingly admit defeat!” A’lang was feeling a little impatient.

Once he said those words, Abu suddenly felt that the situation was progressing rather badly for them.

Right when he was about to interrupt, he heard All-powerful Medicinal Stone answer loudly. “Alright!”

He suddenly became very high-spirited, and Abu as well as his group felt uneasy, as if they had been tricked.

*****

Happy and Silver Wolf were protected by a group of Mu Clan members while they stood quietly behind the crowd. They did not show themselves from the start.

Rampaging Dragon’s control over the situation as well as his various methods made Happy and Silver Wolf feel relaxed. When they saw that the group of southwesterners did not manage to swallow their anger and were at a disadvantage in many areas, they gave each other knowing smiles.

Up until then, the aggressiveness of the southwesterners had been reduced slightly, and as of right then, they had also been successfully provoked. All-powerful Medicinal Stone had even lured his opponent to make a one-hundred move promise. A’lang’s arrogance and pride had already guaranteed that he would lose the fight!

All-powerful Medicinal Stone was skilled in many ingenious lightness skills, and each of them had already reached Grandmaster Realm. With all sorts of lightness skills complementing each other and working together, his proficiency in lightness skills had already reached transcendence.

His Body Movement had also surpassed two hundred, and it was completely impossible for normal people to catch up to him. It was something in which even Happy had to admit defeat to him.

Happy and Silver Wolf could already guess the ending to All-powerful Medicinal Stone’s fight against a young disciple.

In fact, Happy could already predict the regretful and angry expression A’lang would have when All-powerful Medicinal Stone dragged out the fight past one hundred moves, and he might even want to slap himself for running his own mouth like that.

“After A’lang, Abu and the other boxing masters will definitely come forth personally. At that time, let me handle them.” Silver Wolf softly asked Happy for permission to fight.

Happy nodded. “Okay. Since they’re willing to become cannon fodder, we don’t need to show them any respect.”

When he said that, a cold and fierce killing intent was revealed.