——(POV third person)——

The moment Ye Ling heard the name, She knew who they were up against. Cai ZhenKang is the chief disciple of the blue bulls sect.

He is a powerful person with equally powerful backing and as his actions didn't result in anyone's death, the elders from their sect would brush it off as youngsters being energetic, and Heavenly sword sect elders can't meddle in youngsters affairs so nothing will come out of reporting it as the sects are not in a good relationship, to begin with.

Looking at the ring that Li Huang gave her, Ye Ling was thinking of a plan of action.

'I wish I could just blast him in the face, but if I do that, it would create more problems as I don't have a strong backing like him.' Ye Ling thought as she was forming a plan.

Without any delay, she gave the injured disciple some pills to ease his pain and turned to Cai ZhenKang.

He was looking around the camp and studied the tents. Every disciple who was present at this moment was vigilant.

"Now I get where the 'bull' in your sect's name comes from…" Ye Ling said to open a conversation. Well, at least her understanding of a conversation as what she said could only be interpreted as a provocation.

Everyone was stunned by her words and only Lai Xinyue nodded as she would be blunter given the chance.

Cai ZhenKang was just amused by this as he didn't put any disciple here in his eyes. If he can create a deep hatred it would be the best for his plans so he accepted this provocation with open arms.

"Is that supposed to mean something when it is coming from a little chicken?" He answered back with a snort. To him, this is all a play, but he is also good at playing. The common belief about the blue bulls sect is that they are simple-minded but ZhenKang is one of the exceptionally cunning ones among them.

With these words, he tried to invigorate the prideful disciples to act against him so he can retaliate easily.

Ye Ling who was thinking why she was called a 'little chicken' when all she did was opening a conversation, didn't react fast to Cai ZhenKang's words and he used this chance to talk again.

"Where is Li Huang hiding? Behind another woman?" He said as he tried to humiliate Li Huang. Looking around he found the female disciple with the smallest build to compare her with Li Huang as a joke so he unknowingly walked to Lai Xinyue and pointed at her.

Pointing his finger at Lai Xinyue was all it took for Jin Fen to unsheathe his sword and swing it toward his neck.

To others, it seemed that Jin Fen really respects his senior brother Li Huang and couldn't stop himself as Cai ZhenKang kept on disrespecting him, but we know that he didn't care about that at all…

Cai ZhenKang who was trained for years in the most brute ways of training wasn't one to be played by such an amateur move but he didn't even try to stop the attack or move away.

Instead of putting any defense in front of it, Cai ZhenKang just grinned madly and waited for the sword to hit him.

Ye Ling now understood why Li Huang warned him about Jin Fen but she was too far from the commotion to do anything at this moment.

Jin Fen was happy about his attack and its suddenness until it hit the mark.

When the sword hit Cai ZhenKang's neck, it didn't sound like a sword hitting flesh but sounded like metal hitting metal.

*clang*

Jin Fen who used all his power didn't expect this outcome at all and was shell-shocked. Not only he didn't deal a big injury to ZhenKang, he couldn't even leave a scratch on his neck.

Without hesitation, he backed away and got into a defensive stance.

Cai ZhenKang who had his vanity satisfied laughed wholeheartedly.

"HAHAHA, I use more force on my toothbrush than what you used with your sword, HAHAHA…" he said and rubbed salt in Jin Fen's wound.

'Do you call that brushing your teeth if you use that much power?' was what everyone thought about but didn't voice it out.

——(POV Li Huang, near the temporary camp of the heavenly sword sect)——

"Finally we are back!" I said dramatically.

"You know that it is not that long that we went out?" Hu Anjing said while rolling her eyes.

"True, but I think even a day is—" I couldn't finish my words as a loud *clang* sound was heard from the camp's location.

"Well, good to be back…" I said as I doubled my speed toward the camp as I know that something was happening there, Hu Anjing also increased her speed.

——(POV third person, temporary camp of the heavenly sword sect)——

"But it is good that you have the courage to attack me, now I hope you have the quality to face my retaliation." Cai ZhenKang said as he readied his axe in his hands.

Li Huang who just got here got the gist of events and knew that he has to step in. No, not for Jin Fen. He could die for all he cared, he had to step in because it was a sect matter first and foremost and if Jin Fen continues to be the idiot that he is, he would finish him here without mercy.

Before Cai ZhenKang could make his move, Li Huang come out and let everyone know that he is back. Hu Anjing was also walking behind him.

"Cai ZhenKang, why are you fighting one of our outer disciples if you want to fight me?" Li Huang said and Cai ZhenKang turned to him.

"Little brat of heavenly sword sect, so you decided to show yourself at last?" Cai ZhenKang said mockingly.

"Your voice is so loud that I heard it from miles away and was forced to come here…" Li Huang said matter-of-factly.

"HAHAHA, so you don't plan on running away this time?" Cai ZhenKang asked Li Huang.

"Last time I was out on a mission so I couldn't waste time, now I am free as I can be." Li Huang shook his head and explained calmly.

"Good, good." Cai ZhenKang was genuinely happy. Sure, he liked to defeat Li Huang but he liked fighting strong opponents more so this was a win-win situation for him.

Li Huang nodded to him as he understood Cai ZhenKang's mentality.

Jin Fen who was ignored by both of them, couldn't stay silent anymore and decided to speak.

"And who said I am done fighting?" he said arrogantly.

This made Cai ZhenKang grin like a madman and Li Huang frown.

Li Huang unsheathed his sword in a fraction of a second and after pointing it toward Jin Fen shot some sword Qi his way and put his sword back in its sheathe.

This all happened so fast that the only sign of it happening was the fresh blood and the scar on Jin Fen's right cheek.

…And the tree behind him that fell down soon after.

"I think you are done." Li Huang said without looking at Jin Fen, he was fed up with his haughty attitude.