Sword Among Us

Panda Novel

Once the people from Dragon Tiger Sect left, Happy no longer had any distractions. He used the movements and speed of Cloud Treading Steps to move around the Great Wolf. His Black Tiger Fist worked together with Green Jade Shrouded in Heavenly Silks, and he threw fist after fist! He made the Great Wolf, who had great defenses, feel dizzy, and in less than five minutes, the battle ended.

“So tough!”

“If we were in your place, we would need a lot of time before we could take it down.” Eastern Green Gate and his friends surrounded the Great Wolf, and he could not help but gasp in amazement while a myriad of emotions stirred in him.

“Hurry up and skin it.” Happy brought out a shortsword in a familiar motion and sliced off the Great Wolf’s claws. “Also, this is good stuff. You can use it as a material to make weapons.”

The trio nodded. They had witnessed Great Wolves using their claws to fight against armed players before. Quite a large number of bronze weapons had been sent flying as well, which made it clear just how hard the Great Wolves’ claws were!

“What about this?”

Azure Wolf lifted the item in his hands for Happy to see. It looked like a rope, but was glossy and sleek. It was semi-transparent.

“That’s a wolf tendon. It is a material to make longbows. It can also be used to make Hundred-linked Chains and whips…”

“Happy, why do you seem to know everything? You’re good at your martial arts as well. How did you do it?”

Eastern Green Gate squatted down next to Happy.

Happy smiled.

“I usually pay attention to many things, and some of them are things my classmates told me.”

“Classmates? You’re still studying?” The trio had rather surprised expressions.

“Yup, in the University of South China, Hunan.”

“… What the heck? And here I am, calling a student my senior brother for so long. I…”

“Haha, I’ve always thought that he was around thirty years old. I mean, this brat is always so level-headed when he speaks and acts. He looks like a person who has been a wandering martial artist for a long time, you know?”

“Me too…”

The trio felt incredibly depressed, and their gazes were full of resentment when they looked at Happy.

*****

The moment the people from Dragon Tiger Sect walked out of the forest in a mighty manner, the spies sent from Heaven Domination Sect and the players who followed behind them immediately came forward to check out the situation. Many people had already gotten to know the situation in the forest and what happened inside.

Most of those people were friends of the players who were killed by Heaven Domination Sect or were the victims’ sect brothers. They were intimidated by Heaven Domination Sect’s force and had intended to join Dragon Tiger Sect to enter the forest and find a chance to seek revenge.

Once they learned that most of the people who ambushed their friends had died in Happy’s hands, they were first stunned, then became so astonished that they were rendered speechless for a long time.

“What should we do now then?”

They were shocked by the drastic change in the forest and Happy’s strength, but they also felt a strange sense of disappointment. However, they did not know whether it was because they were unable to witness the furious fight between Dragon Tiger Sect and Heaven Domination Sect, or whether it was because they had not been able to avenge their friends.

“That’s all there is to Heaven Domination Sect.”

When he saw that the people were shocked by this unexpected news, Long Meng took the chance to step forward and mock Heaven Domination Sect. “Haha! I wonder which sect it was who had been so arrogant and said that Dragon Tiger Sect were cowards and could not even handle Happy? They don’t know that our sect master is a forthright person, both wise and mighty!”

Once he said this, he raised his hands toward the sky and swept his gaze over the players around him. “Our sect master chose to respect Noble Sword User Happy for his generous and magnanimous act of not killing all our sect members when we lost to him in our fight. Then, he swore an oath that he would not become Happy’s enemy. What is this? This is the act of a gentleman, a true man! But look at what Heaven Domination Sect did…

“Hmph! They first gathered their people to ambush innocent players who had no connection to them. They occupied the Great Wolf’s spawn point and tried to kill the Noble Sword User, and they actually mobilized more than fifty Gate Realm players to attack him in an encirclement… Haha! You actually tried to rely on such dirty methods! And you want to surpass Dragon Tiger Sect with that sort of strength?!”

The more Long Meng spoke, the more agitated he became, and his voice became louder as well. His enraged words easily resonated with the players around him.

“This sort of sect will never go up high in the social circles!”

“That’s right! They only perform dirty tricks!”

“How can they be heroes when they hurt others behind their backs?”

“I heard that Mighty Tyrant even swore that he would make Heaven Domination Sect the strongest sect in Gusu City. Bah! With his abilities?!”

The loud discussions were like a tidal wave, and soon, it became a session in which the crowd spat on and criticized Heaven Domination Sect.

“… Bastard.”

An angry player was held back by two others in the crowd.

Those three people were spies from Heaven Domination Sect. When they heard others criticize Heaven Domination Sect, they felt their faces burn hotly, and they wanted to immediately charge forward to fight against them, but their rationality won over their anger. One of them quietly removed himself from the crowd and went to the city to deliver the news.

“By the way, Vice Sect Master Long, you said that Happy killed more than forty Heaven Domination Sect members. Is this true? Did you see this personally?”

Long Meng showed extraordinary calm in the face of the unfamiliar player’s question. He answered with a smile. “I didn’t see it with my own eyes, but the people from Heaven Domination Sect have indeed vanished without a trace. Only Happy and three of his friends are in there, and there was no reason for Heaven Domination Sect to run away from the forest after taking the risk of offending all of you by killing your friends. They’re not idiots, after all.”

The people who were originally skeptical did not say anything. They just nodded.

Long Meng then answered a few more questions, some of which were about the requirements to join Dragon Tiger Sect. He looked incredibly amiable.

It seemed like Dragon Tiger Sect’s prestige had increased again.

If Happy were here, he would definitely be awed by how smooth Long Meng was in dealing with people.

But in truth, Long Meng had always been a smart person. Although he had made a really stupid mistake before and caused Dragon Tiger Sect and Happy to become enemies who were like oil and water, once he came to truly know Happy’s strength, Long Meng could still understand his role as the vice sect master of Dragon Tiger Sect. When they ran into Happy in the forest, the first thing he thought of was to avoid a conflict with the fiend that was Happy, and he also thought of a way to rebuild Dragon Tiger Sect’s reputation.

And reality proved that what he did was correct.

With just a few simple words, not only did he manage to bring the players around him to stand on Dragon Tiger Sect’s side and build a uniform front to denounce Heaven Domination Sect, he also indirectly increased Happy’s image in the people’s hearts, which allowed him to explain the reason behind why the sect master of Dragon Tiger Sect chose to avoid him. Now, instead of them avoiding Happy in fear, it now turned into avoiding Happy because they respected him.

Long Meng made something that was originally bad into something good.

Fear meant that they were useless, but respect was a form of magnanimity.

Long Meng believed that once the people around him returned to Gusu City, they would bring the news of Happy fighting back and killing dozens of people from Heaven Domination Sect to the city, shocking it. Long Meng’s truthful confession would also enter the depths of the players’ hearts.

With such a great advertisement, Dragon Tiger Sect’s image would soon be rectified!

On the other hand, Heaven Domination Sect would become the target of mockery and public denunciation.

*****

Bang!

Black light flashed past, and a wooden statue on the main altar in the hall of Heaven Domination Sect was cut into half. The violent power that cut it made shattered pieces fly everywhere.

A huge man was revealed behind the broken wooden statue. He had a sturdy build and tanned skin, which was drenched in sweat. His breathing was calm, and while he listened to the report by the people below him, he did not reveal too much anger.

In a calm voice, he said, “Dragon Tiger Sect doesn’t have any players in Blessed Realm. They are a problem. But tell the sect master not to offend the person called Happy. If he truly has a lightness skill and hidden weapon technique in Grandmaster Realm, then no matter how many people we bring to attack him, as long as they aren’t in Blessed Realm, it’ll be useless. It was pointless for you to come to me as well. I will only be able to do something to him when my Flying Bear Sword Technique reaches the seventh realm.”

“Not even you can do anything about him?”

“I may have an advantage over him in terms of my qi realm, but it doesn’t mean I have an advantage over him in terms of strength. I can’t catch up to him, and I can’t win against him. Am I supposed to go out there and die? Hmph… Forgive me, but I will not do so.”