Great Swordsman
Ch.33 - Introduction

The girl did not even bother to hide her movements and was immediately caught by the eyes of the two Elders. They inevitably felt strange, it seemed like the relationship between Xu Feng and Ding Xiang was a little closer than they had imagined.

What the hell is going on? The two Elders inevitably muttered inwardly and tried to understand it through their respective minds.

Yet no matter how hard they thought, there was no plausible reason they could come across.

“Except if Senior Xu takes pity on him.” The inner two Elders who immediately made their appreciation of Xu Feng even higher. This young man was much softer than they expected.

The location of the ceremony was located in the village square, it was a spacious round area with an open pagoda building in the frontmost corner of the square.

The pagoda is four stories high and is the tallest building in the village. There were already many people sitting on the top floor of the building, overlooking the round area that was now crowded with people.

All of them were representatives from the village that had been invited, Elder Xue Lan sat in the front seat to accompany the guests. On both sides were Gao Gao and the Sixth Elder of Huo Village.

There was a total of more than ten village representatives, all of whom came in a hurry when they received news of the existence of the expert who appeared and declared himself the protector of the Xue Village.

The fight that happened yesterday had also been heard. After all many of them had already looked greedily at Xue Village after a long time and installed some scouts not far from the village to monitor the development of Xue Village. Who knew that when they were busy having fun in their respective villages, the scouts immediately brought bad news.

They could hardly believe it when they heard that information, a controller at the peak of the Third Stage and mastered two techniques. Moreover, the information said that the person in question was still a young man!

The village higher-ups had no choice but to send their respective representatives and travel to Xue Village to ascertain it themselves.

Not long after that Xu Feng's entourage arrived. Their arrival immediately made the originally noisy residents become silent, their eyes all fixed on Xu Feng.

“Protective Greetings!”

Thousands bowed their heads and greeted them, still not knowing why they were being asked to gather in this place. The news of Xu Feng joining the Xue Village had not been spread and was only known to the village elders.

Xu Feng's arrival attracted the interest of every resident and soon they whispered to each other to try to figure out the reason.

“Senior Xu please.”

The elder of Xue Gong paved the way and invited the one who immediately got a light nod from Xu Feng. They then walked through the street in the middle of the square connected to the pagoda building.

“Ughh.” Suddenly all the representatives of each village felt an immense pressure pressing down on them, their chests felt tight and they could barely breathe, it felt like there was a tall mountain standing before them. That pressure grew even more as Xu Feng walked closer.

Their faces immediately turned pale and nearly fainted, when they were no longer able to hold on, the mountain-sized pressure finally disappeared.

“Huff.” They immediately inhaled a deep breath of air, cold sweat covering their faces that were currently so tense.

They were all Elders in their respective villages, they often interacted with their Patriarch and understood what pressure a Third Stage controller was like. But what they had just felt before was different, the pressure was stronger than what they would normally feel from their Patriarch.

The expression of every representative was shocked, the rumors about him reaching the peak of the Third Stage were indeed true! Some representatives were worried, some were just surprised.

“Chairman Gong, some already showed his face.”

“Song Village, Tan Village, Guo Village.” Xue Gong understood Xu Feng's intention and did not let go of the opportunity, he immediately mentioned the names of the villagers from the representatives who showed worried faces.

“Hehehe they wouldn't think you would use that way.”

Huo Tin laughed blankly, he was surprised by Xu Feng's strange methods. He had never thought about this way before.

“How can? They used to be a village that was in close contact with us!” Ding Xiang muttered in disbelief, he had not expected to be stabbed in the back by the fellow villagers his father had once trusted.

Xu Feng shook his head, he had heard too many stories of betrayal like this. As long as the profits were too great, people would not hesitate to leave their comrades in arms. Of course, not everyone is, just most.

“Nona.. You are still thinking childishly.” Xue Gong smiled bitterly, he also understood this cruel reality.

“But.” Ding Xiang wanted to argue further but Xu Feng patted his head gently.

“Nona Ding, what Elder Gong said is true.”

Just then, Ding Xiang immediately fell silent and his body trembled slightly as a result of Xu Feng's actions. This was the first time they had ever made direct contact.

Xu Feng on the other hand was instantly dumbfounded over his reflexes which involuntarily patted the girl's head. He actually did that subconsciously okay!?

“As I expected, they seem to have a closeness.” Inner Xue Gong and Huo Tin, they glanced at each other with question marks engraved on their faces.

What happened was just a small episode that day. Their entourage then arrived at the top floor of the pagoda where Xu Feng could notice the representatives' faces more clearly.

The representatives who attracted his most attention were the people from the three villages that Xue Gong mentioned earlier.

When they realized Xu Feng's gaze, the three representatives were a little nervous. It was fortunate that Xu Feng only stared at them for a moment and then ignored their presence.

“Senior Xu, greetings!” Xue Lan and the Sixth Elder got up and gave their greetings, all the representatives also stood up and greeted. The figure that was at the peak of the Third Stage was merely an object of admiration in their hearts.

Given Xu Feng's age, he definitely had an incredible talent in order to obtain his achievements now, breaking through to the Fourth Level was certain.

They could not help but be amazed to think this young man had the opportunity to break through the shackles that had held many cultivators back.

Breaking through from the Third Stage to the Fourth Stage was almost a hundred times more difficult than breaking through to the Third Stage of the Second Stage. The Third Stage is referred to as the realm that fully reaches the limits of the human body, all aspects of increased physical fitness reach the limits of the mortal human body.

While the Fourth Stage was the realm where one began to actually cultivate qi within the dantian, even though at that realm one could not yet control qi, they could at least already envelop certain body parts or weapons with qi to produce an explosive force boost.

Breaking through to the Fourth Stage of the Third Stage represents the first wall that cultivators need to break, it is the first boundary they will encounter in the mortal realm. Only by setting foot in the Fourth Stage could one truly be called a true cultivator.

It was precisely for that reason why the Fourth Stage was given the nickname as master! Their strength could already rival an army!