"He's probably just a young punk. I heard Mr Chu killed Mochizuki Kawa's foster son and provoked him. But Mr Chu was so scared that he went into hiding for half a month. He didn't even take his wife with him and didn't turn up all this time. No one heard a word from him."
"What? Are you serious? Why is he such a loser? How can Mr Chu run off after pissing off someone like him without even taking his wife? How can a man like this be the King of Jiangdong? That's insane! He is just a coward and a complete disgrace to our martial arts circles! I really pity the girl he married. She really met the wrong man!"
Everywhere in the country, people gossiped nonstop.
The news almost spread like a rampage throughout the martial arts circle.
Some of them shook their heads and sighed on hearing it, while others cursed him.
Some of them felt ashamed of him, while others didn't care.
People just reacted differently to the same news.
However, other than scolding Ye Fan, some of them even helped speak up for him.
"Sigh! Don't say such things. Mr Chu must be an extraordinary man for being able to reign as King of Jiangdong in the martial arts circle. Maybe he didn't show up because he was held up and didn't make it back in time,” someone speculated.
However, someone sitting next to him instantly scoffed.
"Wang, I won't argue with you about whether Mr Chu is a hero or coward. We will all find out in ten days at Dongchang Lake. Mochizuki Kawa has already challenged him to a duel at the lake. If he doesn't turn up in ten days, his wife will die under Mochizuki Kawa's sword!"
The people around them instantly fell silent.
"Mochizuki Kawa is trying to corner Mr Chu!" sighed everyone.
In the martial arts circle, such duels were a matter of life and death.
So Mochizuki Kawa was threatening Mr Chu to a battle by holding his wife hostage!
Mochizuki Kawa was the Sword God of Japan. Even if he wasn't the number one fighter in Japan, he was still one of the top five within the country.
Back in the day, he fought the God of War at the Yellow River.
He was so powerful that even grandmasters might not be able to surpass him.
So everyone felt that even if Mr Chu turned up in ten days, he was bound to perish!
But if he didn't come, his reputation would be destroyed, his wife would be killed, and he would have to suffer a bad name for the rest of his life.
Should he choose to live or die?
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