"Who's this guy? Why can he be treated so courteously by the Young Sword King?”

"He looks like only a teenager. Is he also one of the prominent young generation in the empire like Young Sword King?"

"It's weird. Even if this boy is a friend of his, they don't need to arrange the meeting place here lest they want us to know about it."

The crowd exchanged their views vehemently, wondering about the origin of Lin Xun. Some people with clear minds vaguely felt something strange.

However, both Lin Xun and Shie Yutang calmly turned a blind eye to everything around them because they already knew the purpose of the meeting.

"This is a battle challenge. Three days later, at Wu (Chinese unit of time, almost 12:00 in the noon). in the Mist City’s Arena, Huang Jianxiong's elder brother, Huang Jianchen will be waiting for you there."

Shie Yutang handed Lin Xun a letter of challenge stamped with beautiful moiré and turned around to leave.

From beginning to end, he did not utter a word of nonsense. He maintained an indifferent attitude and never showed a trace of emotion.

But Lin Xun knew that Shie Yutang had already shown his DISREGARD!

Lin Xun saw him leave, without revealing any emotion either. He gently opened the challenge letter with his fingers; there was only a single sentence "A battle sets all grievances!"

The handwriting was sharp like a sword. It was so forceful that it seemed to fly out of the paper.

Words could describe a person indeed. Just by handwriting, Lin knew that this sentence came from Shie Yutang. The fierce and unparalleled atmosphere perfectly fitted his temperament.

Lin Xun narrowed his eyes for a moment and then put the challenge letter away. Only then did he realize that all the people around him were whispering and looking at him with some strange expressions.

"A challenge letter! It turns out that Young Sword King came here to send this letter; this guy is not his friend.”

"I'm curious about who this fellow had offended to make Shie Yutang come out in person. It's unusual."

"Didn't you hear that? Three days later, at Arena, Huang Jianchen!"

"Huang Jianchen? Who's this guy?

"It's certainly not any ordinary person, otherwise Young Sword King wouldn’t come out personally."

"Interesting! It’s so interesting! Three days later, we must go to the Arena to see the battle.”

There was an excited discussion that Shie Yutang, a well-known young generation figure, suddenly appeared in the Mist City and sent a challenge to an unknown teenager in public!

This event left much imaginary space. So it was easy to attract public attention.

Lin Xun frowned. He vaguely guessed the intention of Shie Yutang.

"Childe, Supervisor Chu Feng request the pleasure of seeing you."

At this time, a maid ran out of the Commune of Spiritual Tattooists and took Lin Xun to the second floor.

"Brother, Shie Yutang is really vicious."

Chu Feng said angrily as soon as he saw Lin Xun.

"You’ve noticed it too?"

Lin Xun asked with laughter smile.

"As long as one is not blind, he/she will know Shie Yutang’s intentions. He is here just to send a challenge letter but flaunted so much in public. So he was obviously telling the whole Mist City that you, Lin Xun, will fight in the Arena in three days."

Chu Feng sneered, "This is killing through adulation of people! This action will push you to the core of every discussion, make you fall down hard on the day of battle, and disgrace you completely in Mist City.”

Lin Xun agreed and responded, "But Shie Yutang’s action proves that he has enough confidence in Huang Jianchen so much so that he firmly believes I will be defeated in this battle."

Chu Feng patted his thigh. "That's it! Arena is the first-class battle place in Mist City, and it can accommodate tens of thousands of people to watch the battle. If you lose, your failure will be known by everyone in Mist City in merely one day. So Shie Yutang must have evil intentions. Damn it!”

However, Lin Xun gave a light smile, "Since he wants to make the whole city know about the battle, I'll play along with him this time. Nevertheless, I'm curious about my opponent Huang Jianchen."

Chu Feng was startled; he frowned while thinking and then shook his head. "I’ve not heard of this name, but I think he should also be a powerful figure in the Forbidden City."

Lin Xun frowned and said, "Brother, help me find out more details of this Huang Jianchen. Only when I know my opponent well enough can I have a confident battle."

Chu Feng nodded at once and shouldered this investigation.

...

As Chu Feng had analyzed, it was not long before this event caused a great disturbance in Mist City.

Shie Yutang, an eminent figure on behalf of the young generation, sent challenge letter to a youngster in public today.

This was absolutely a sensation. As was known, Shie Yutang was not only a talented person, but also in the direct line of Shie family’s descent, which was one of the seven high-class aristocratic families in the empire.

This identity was enough to attract the attention of the major forces in Mist City. It was a hot news for such a dazzling figure to condescend himself as an intermediary and send out a challenge letter personally.

Soon, news about Lin’s identity came out. But most people only knew that Lin Xun was a teenage who had the qualifications to participate in Province Test. What was more, just a few days ago, he had caused a great uproar by defeating Qi Yunxiao and Yuan Shu in front of Mist College.

Only the powerful forces in Mist City knew clearly that Lin Xun had killed many practitioners on a rainy night. He was extremely strong and his origin was quite mysterious. He was an absolutely hard nut to crack.

When they learned Shie Yutang's challenge letter was pointed at Lin Xun, these powerful forces were immediately attracted. Nobody would regard this as a trivial matter.

Lin Xun's opponent, Huang Jianchen, was a descendant of the Huang clan, one of the Imperial Forbidden City's aristocratic families. However, there was little information about Huang Jianchen.

But the more mysterious the thing was, the more attractive it would be. For most people in Mist City, whether it was Lin Xun or Huang Jianchen, both were far less famous than Young Sword King Shie Yutang. Even so, Shie Yutang participated in this matter. His unreasonable action made many people smell a conspiracy behind this event.

In short, as soon as the news spread throughout Mist City, it garnered great attention. Some people rushed to buy tickets, hoping to see the unusual duel in person.

In less than an hour, three-day later tickets were sold out from the Arena, which reflected this event’s high recognition and popularity.

...

In an elegant room of a restaurant.

Wen Mingxiu, Qi Yunxiao, Yuan Shu and others disciples of Mist City’s aristocratic forces excitedly gathered together.

"As soon as I heard the news, I notified you. I want to know if you would go and view this battle."

Qi Yunxiao's eyes swept through the crowd with joy.

"Of course we will go."

"We dare not provoke Lin, but how can we miss this opportunity to watch him be defeated and fooled in public?"

"We don’t know the strength of Huang Jianchen, but since Shie Yutang stood out to build momentum for Huang Jianchen, it proves that in Shie Yutang’s view, Lin Xun isn’t the opponent of Huang!"

"Ha-ha. You’re right. Lin Xun will now suffer the repercussions of his actions."

Others also responded with excitement. The forces behind them had suffered great losses by Lin, but they dare not retaliate because of Lin’s special identity.

Now, it was up to them to see how Lin Xun made a fool of himself. They were pleased to see this drama.

Only Wen Mingxiu appeared calm and said, "It's not that easy to bully Lin Xun. I'm curious that if Lin Xun wins in the end, how will Young Sword King deal with it?"

Everyone was stunned at this assumption.

"Anyway, just wait and see. The good show will come three days later. This time, the old guys in our forces also can't sit still. They’ll watch this fight personally like us."

Qi Yunxiao said with gleaming eyes, "I heard that even the governor of Southwestern Province Liu Wujun, the great practitioner Yao Tuohai, the president of Mist College Wei Lingzhen, and the leader of Ziling Army Du Dongtu are all concerned about this matter, but I don’t know whether they would go and watch it in person."

People laughed as they all knew about it. They heard that in today's market, tickets for the Arena match in three days had all been sold out. In the black market, the price of tickets had surged to a terrible number!

It could be imagined how spectacular the scene in the Arena would be at the beginning of this fight.

"It's imperative to know more details of Huang Jianchen. This fellow is not famous in the Forbidden City and seems to be low-key. But since Shie Yutang endorses for him, he must be a shocking character."

Wen Mingxiu murmured.

Others nodded their heads. They had all met Huang Jianxiong. Although he had been crippled by Lin, his original fighting power ranks the first-class in the Human-gang Spirit Realm.

As Huang Jianxiong's elder brother, Huang Jianchen certainly couldn’t be a lousy character.

Such discussions and conversations were now taking place everywhere in Mist City. Whatever they were about, they imperceptibly made Lin Xun a household name.

Of course, if he was defeated in the battle three days later, he was doomed to be disgraced and become a notorious loser in Mist City!

This was the strategy of "praise first and disgrace later". It was a decent strategy as even if it was noticed, it wouldn’t affect Shie Yutang's reputation at all.

Green-tea Pavilion

When she heard the news from Granny Wind, Liu Qingyan could not stop biting her cherry-red lips. A strand of inexplicable anger rose in her heart. She said, "Childe Shie is bullying Lin this way."

Chains of Dark Prison ahead.