Chapter Twelve: Fists Striking Every Quarter

“Wow, you obedient grandson, how dare you lay a hand on your grandfather? Let me beat you till you go home and find your mother!” Wang Ping’s fist came crashing down. Mo Fan shouted and quickly shifted his footing to dodge the incoming blow.

“What?”

Everyone was stunned. What kind of beating was that, making someone ‘go find their mother’? It was obviously a trick; the boy was just dodging, pretending to be weak.

The few burly men from Shén Mù Village exchanged sly glances, then shouted loudly to Wang Ping, “Young Master Wang Ping, this is the very Mo Fan our village wants to capture!”

At those words, all eyes turned toward Mo Fan. Ning Hongluan was also taken aback, a flicker of disbelief shining in her gaze.

“It’s him!” Ning Wuyu’s eyes widened, unwilling to believe it. After all, before this, he had only seen a boy covered in poisonous sores.

“Mo Fan? The boy from Shén Mù Village who killed someone and terrified the Chen family’s youngster to only mutter ‘poisonous hands’?”

“I heard he’s covered in poisonous sores that will kill anyone who touches them instantly. But now, he looks perfectly fine and quite handsome.”

“Could it be the Poison Detoxification Disease?” Among the crowd, a man leaning on his sword looked on with curiosity.

He had heard many rumors about this boy. Since yesterday, people had been arriving at the Wailing Peak one after another, and the topic of discussion was always this very boy.

The man furrowed his brow, unable to see anything unusual about Mo Fan. He seemed ordinary, even useless—he hadn’t even managed to open the basic Wilderness Domain.

So why would the village chief of Shén Mù Village issue a warrant to capture and hunt down someone so utterly ordinary? What dark secret lay beneath?

The man watched the battlefield silently, detecting no abnormalities.

“It’s you!” Wang Ping stopped attacking, looking down on Mo Fan with disdain, utterly indifferent.

“Yes, it’s me. You finally remembered, didn’t you, grandson!” Mo Fan said with a carefree, world-weary grin.

“You!” Wang Ping pointed at Mo Fan, his eyes blazing with anger, wishing he could crush the boy with a single punch and then demand whatever it was he sought from Shén Mù Village.

But now was not the time; to kill this kid, he didn’t even need to lift a finger. One of his underlings could dispatch him multiple times over. What mattered now was whether Shén Mù Village would keep their promise.

“Does the Ghost Hand Divine Doctor agree to my terms? Are you authorized to decide?” Wang Ping looked uncertainly at the burly men from Shén Mù Village.

“Of course. If you capture or kill this boy and hand over his corpse to us, the Divine Doctor will present the promised elixir with both hands,” the lead man from Shén Mù Village said.

Wang Ping pondered for a moment, then clenched his fists. “Fine. I doubt you dare stir up trouble, or I will raze Shén Mù Village to the ground.”

As he finished speaking, Wang Ping waved his hand, and over a dozen Wang family disciples swarmed forward, tightly surrounding Mo Fan.

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