Chu Qiguang was very much surprised to hear this. He knew how obsessed Hao Yongtai was with martial arts. Even though his aptitude was a little lacking, his diligence was nearly unmatched, so it came as a huge surprise that he was planning to skip this edition of the martial examination.0

"You probably don't know this yet, but you, our Hao Clan, and the Wu Clan have already had our reputations completely dragged through the mud in the north," Hao Yongtai said with a wry smile.  0

The fiends under Chu Qiguang primarily gathered intelligence within the county, so he knew very little about things happening outside the county. Only after hearing an explanation from Hao Yongtai did he manage to get a grasp on the situation.0

With the advent of the martial examination, majority of aspiring martial artists ended up in the imperial court system, attending...0