Inside the bamboo forest.

The individual in the conical bamboo hat wore ordinary rough cloth clothes, height not that tall. However, he gave off a type of feeling as if he was as tall as a great mountain peak.

On his back were two rectangular cloth strips, one long one short, a deep and cold aura was released from them. These should be two bladed weapons, just that they were wrapped under cloth, impossible to see clearly.

“What did you seek me out so urgently for?”

The bamboo hat was raised slightly, the face underneath actually also hidden under a black towel, only a pair of eyes with a bit of ridiculing cold radiance flashing past, his tone full of arrogance. “If it is for your son, then there is no need for you to say anything… In the end, this matter is because you wanted to climb higher, it has nothing to do with me.”

After a slight pause, he added with a bit of ridicule, “It was also your luck that I just happened to have some matters to tend to, or else even if you sought me out so urgently, you wouldn’t have a chance to meet me so quickly.”

“Ma Hongjun underestimated him. With the other party’s strength, there should be no way he miscalculated.”[1]

Xu Ningshen who seemed to have aged considerably since a few days ago, becoming much more thin and pallid, gave this person a look, saying with a...