The Heavenly Tiger Swordsman
Damage to Self-Confidence

“Hey, are you aware of what happened last night?"

“I realized it, it was really amazing. A bluish light shone brightly across the city, how beautiful even if I could only see for a short time."

“True, is there anything that happened last night until that beautiful light can appear in our city?"

Talks among the townspeople were heating up almost all over the city streets. They are busy, but that doesn't prevent them from talking about something they find so hard to forget.

On the streets of the city, the iron masked man heard all the talk. Unlike the city dwellers who mostly only pay attention to how beautiful the light is, the masked man has his own thoughts about the same thing.

“From what I heard from my subordinates, the origin of the light was from the Treasure Lantern. Does this have anything to do with that young man?" The masked man wondered, of course, he understood what the omens were until such a light could appear.

The rise in the level of a swordsman who managed to form a martial soul, it was known to masked men because not once twice the warriors in the empire managed to do the same.

“Not possible, right?" The masked man with his head that somehow felt pain, because it was unacceptable to think that the young man who had dealt with him could reach the level of a Soul swordsman ahead of him.

Being able to reach the Peak stage Soul Formation level alone was already a miracle for the young swordsman, now that the same young man had likely risen the level of a certain masked man did not feel it was all reasonable.

“Damn it, I must report the genius of this young man to the empire." The masked man before continuing his steps.

The masked man's head grew even more painful with every single step he took, being so curious about who Hao Zhao was and what Hao Zhao's relationship with the Treasure Lantern seemed to have quite a close bond.

“Don't tell me Gang Dalan's incident had something to do with that young man too?" The masked man who felt his conjecture regarding it was really quite reasonable.

The youth with abnormal strength out of nowhere suddenly appeared in the city of Dahan Gugur, along with that the city lord and his guards were found to have lost their lives. Now there is a possibility of a rate increase from the same young man, if all of those things are connected clearly it is not impossible to see the common thread.

“Does the Gang family in this city have anything of great value in their hands? Until the young man slaughtered the Dalan Gang as well as his guards to get something related to his current level rise?" Masked man with every wild conjecture.

The sound of teeth snapping could be heard from behind the mask of the man, before saying, “If all my guesses are correct .. don't expect you to escape the Iron Mask is also imperial."

***

“Haachuuu!"

Hao Zhao rubbed a few times his nose which for some reason suddenly felt itchy. Scratching his head in confusion, Hao Zhao said, “Who is talking about me?"

Hao Zhao himself was in the Treasure Lantern that morning, where the atmosphere of the Treasure Lantern seemed to be so crowded that it was several times more crowded than usual.

Many of the townspeople looked around the Treasure Lantern building out of curiosity, as to what had happened until the majestic Treasure Lantern now appeared to be destroyed on its top floor. Where the curiosity of the residents of the city is what most affects the crowded Treasure Lantern that morning.

“I didn't expect my rate increase would do this much damage to the Treasure Lantern building," Hao Zhao muttered, it was still hard to believe what she saw related to the porcelain porch on the floor where her room was also the room Yue Yie was in.

Yue Yie just stepped over to Hao Zhao after finishing explaining to the builders she paid to renovate the floor, related to what if Yue Yie wanted as the end result of her renovation.

Hao Zhao realized Yue Yie was approaching him immediately saying, “What's wrong with your face?"

Yue Yie although her face was covered in a thin cloth still could Hao Zhao notice the change in Yue Yie's expression from the usual one, where at the moment Yue Yie looked quite moody no matter what the cause.

“It's okay Young Master Zhao, maybe it's just because I'm too tired." Yue Yie said that with the glare of my eyes, like being able to close at any time those eyes to fall asleep.

“Oh, what happened last night? I'm sorry for that, because I didn't think all this would happen." Hao Zhao felt quite guilty.

“Young Master Zhao, please don't think about it. More important than that, what exactly happened last night until all this could happen?" Yue Yie who was already so curious, related to what Hao Zhao did that it could even destroy the entire top floor of the Treasure Lantern.

The building of Treasure Lanterns does not stand with cheap or ordinary materials as the construction material, even in the pairing of protective formations on each floor making attacks from top-level warriors alone should not have too much effect on the building.

Now that one of the floors had collapsed just because of Hao Zhao, of course Yue Yie wondered how could Hao Zhao do it all.

Hao Zhao was naturally aware of Yue Yie's curiosity, where soon Hao Zhao explained about him successfully leveling up.

“A ... what?" Yue Yie heard Hao Zhao's explanation was obviously hard to believe, how not if the person who said that was the young man that Yue Yie guessed must have been only a year or two older than her.

Yue Yie was only eighteen years old, at this age she could be said to be extremely genius and could compete with other talented young generations who came from even large sects.

Because of this Yue Yie had always been confident regarding her talent in martial arts, until the arrival of Hao Zhao that Yue Yie knew of his teacher was at the Peak stage Soul Formation level made Yue Yie slowly change.

From that moment on Yue Yie began to feel discouraged looking at herself, not daring to also say she was a genius because there was a monster genius like Hao Zhao among the youths of her generation.

Now the monster genius that managed to make Yue Yie feel small turned out to have risen a level equivalent to most great warriors in the martial world, somehow having to look at himself in a way how else Yue Yie.

“Is my talent only equivalent to an ant when compared to Young Master Zhao?" yue Yie muttered with her mind that suddenly felt empty.

Hao Zhao only looked at Yue Yie fixedly when Yue Yie suddenly looked so not okay, raising her hand immediately Hao Zhao pinned it towards Yue Yie's forehead before saying, “Do you get sick?"

Yue Yie simply shook her head in silence as a form of reply, not understanding anymore what to behave in the presence of Hao Zhao who had so successfully damaged her confidence as a young swordsman.