The Heavenly Tiger Swordsman
The Recurrence of the Inner Wound

The two bandits had arrived right before Hao Zhao with an axe ready for them to swing, where not long a smile appeared on the faces of the two feeling they had already won.

“Let's see if you can avoid your death!"

The two spoke in unison as if one thought, already extremely confident Hao Zhao would lay down his life under the swing of their axe.

Slashhh!!!

The bodies of the two bandits were split in two, leaving behind only their smile marks that were still visible even after their deaths.

“Fight alone can not? No need to scream like that, just make my ears hurt." Hao Zhao with his face that did not show much change in expression, even after doing one thing that others might find cruel.

Hao Zhao again put the sword in its scabbard before approaching the little girl who was still closing her eyes not far from there, of course after making sure the two bandits had been completely lifeless.

Hao Zhao immediately directed his hand to gently stroke the little girl's head slowly intending to calm her down, after noticing the anxious expectant face that the little girl kept showing.

The little girl felt a familiar hand touching her head finally opened her eyes. After which a wide smile was clearly relieved, seeing his savior was fine.

"Sir, hiks .. thank you," said the little girl, bowing for a long time with tears that had been soaring.

“There is no need to thank you like that, after all, brother just happened to pass by when he saw you being chased by two bad people earlier," said Hao Zhao who somehow felt itchy mouth after telling brother to call himself.

“But still, if there were no Big Brother I would have been hurt by those two bad guys.... Uh?" The little girl had pointed at the two bandits who had lost their lives, before being surprised at how the condition of the bodies of the two.

It was not at all worth seeing the bodies of the two bandits, making the little girl obviously could not bear to see all these things.

“Don't look, now let brother drive you home." Hao Zhao swiftly closed the little girl's eyes before holding her to himself to take her away from there.

The little girl herself was only allowed to open her eyes after Hao Zhao felt it was safe enough for the little girl to do so.

Where right after the little girl's eyes opened, was immediately surprised the little girl saw Hao Zhao moving as if floating in the air at each step.

“Sister, is your brother a swordsman?"

The little girl in Hao Zhao's sling, looked at Hao Zhao's face full of admiration.

Hao Zhao only nodded slowly, not surprised at all by how the little girl reacted.

A warrior is indeed highly regarded as high existence by everyone on the continent, where every swordsman story is mostly made a reference for ordinary people so that their children or descendants can be one of them.

Being a swordsman means living well, that is what is on the minds of lay people who want to raise their standard of living to be better. Although the threat of his disappearance almost always haunts a swordsman, but his income is large even for low-level warriors, making most of them ignore all the threats.

To be clear, Hao Zhao himself was one of the younger generations who had held that desire. Now he has managed to achieve all his hopes even beyond that, even though simultaneously Hao Zhao must face a reality that is not as sweet as his shadow.

Many of his comrades left him be it from losing his life or betraying him, making Hao Zhao prefer to stand firm under his own feet. That's what makes Hao Zhao's name so great, namely his strong determination to stop all the nonsense in the martial world called war.

Where this is what Hao Zhao continues to hold as his reference to be able to become stronger, is to stop all wars related to the struggle for resources that the empire has always done as well as the martial sects do.

“Wait, didn't the plontos-headed bandit say resources are no longer a rare thing now? Then what about the war?" mumbled Hao Zhao in silence, where it was more fun to dissolve in his own mind before realizing that the little girl kept trying to call him from earlier.

“Sister! Are you okay?" the cry of the little girl as Hao Zhao continued to not respond made the little girl worried.

“Oh, what's up?" Hao Zhao who somehow felt guilty for ignoring the little girl.

Honestly, Hao Zhao was already so used to traveling alone all this time, making Hao Zhao had forgotten the fact that he also brought the little girl with him.

“My description has been passed some time ago, did you want to kidnap me?" The little girl with probing eyes, seemed to puff her cheeks a sign of annoyance.

“Eh? Whahuh? Of course not." Hao Zhao was quite surprised of course to accept the no-no accusations from the little girl, although indeed his surprise was not followed by a matching facial expression, because Hao Zhao still put on his expressionless face.

“Hehe, I'm just kidding. I believe in Brother, after all Brother saved me." The little girl let out a small laugh, feeling satisfied that she had already managed to prank Hao Zhao.

Hao Zhao himself afterwards immediately moved to where the little girl was referring to, before it was true that not far from there there was a small village around the houses of the citizens there were still quite a lot of fields.

Hao Zhao saw that all was clearly shocked, not remembering himself that there was a single village that could still remain standing in the middle of the war between the empire and the collection of martial sects.

Where almost all the villages in the empire as Hao Zhao remembered, none of them could still be intact or not be affected by the long battle.

Whether it was flat on the ground or his house which had mostly been worn out due to the escape of its owner, it should have been a common sight if Hao Zhao saw a village that was still inhabited.

Now Hao Zhao saw the village that most of the population can still do normal activities even to farming also gardening, gardening, of course it was not at all common in the eyes of Hao Zhao who had gotten used to seeing suffering everywhere.

“What exactly is with all this? Why is it that the longer I feel the more I don't understand what's really going on?" mumbled Hao Zhao, where afterwards immediately re-dissolved into his own thoughts.

“Where is the war? Where are the scarce resources? Why is there only this kind of incomprehensible strange situation I met in the first village I visited?" Hao Zhao with his head that inexplicably started to ache, made his already pale face become even more pale from the pain.

“Not ... Why should it be now?" Hao Zhao who began to feel signs of a recurrence of deep wounds during his suffering.

Bruck!!!

Hao Zhao had to collapse unconscious after being unable to endure the pain from his internal injuries anymore. Making Little girl who was originally smiling widely while pulling Hao Zhao's hand to take Hao Zhao to her house, immediately felt panic.