Feeling guilty, Zhu Fanfan changed her tune: "There's an old saying that goes, 'No fight, no friendship,' don't you know that?"

Haibu replied, "I've heard of it. Does that mean you'll tell me your name after we fight?"

Zhu Fanfan looked at Zhuge Qianxing, who immediately replied, "It depends on your sincerity. The duel will end when it's over." In any case, he didn't agree.

Zhu Fanfan nodded. It wasn't her who agreed. Once the results came out, whoever answered would be held responsible. Grandpa Zhuge would handle the aftermath, since it was still uncertain whether they were friends or enemies.

Haibu clasped his hands in a fist salute, and Zhu Fanfan returned the salute. Zhu Fanfan made the first move, immediately launching a killing attack. She wanted to finish the battle quickly, so she used her metal element to protect herself and her mental energy to attack. However, Haibu reacted quickly and began to retaliate. He used his ultimate technique, and Zhu Fanfan felt that the area around her had become extremely dangerous. She quickly dodged, and saw an attack strike the ground beside her, shattering the ground.

Zhuge Qianxing was also sweating bullets. He sensed that Hai Bu would be very strong, but he didn't expect Hai Bu to have a spatial ability. At least no one in the Dragon Group had a spatial ability yet. He wondered if Fanfan could handle it.

Zhu Fanfan reacted quickly, her mind racing as she saw Haibu's moves. She was accidentally scratched, but Zhu Fanfan seemed oblivious to the pain and continued her attack. Haibu showed no mercy, constantly dodging and attacking in return, making them evenly matched.

Just when Zhuge Qianxing thought the two would fight for a while longer, a branch quickly stretched out, trying to attack Zhu Fanfan. Before he could stop it, the white wolf lying next to him quickly got up, swept its tail, and cut the branch in half. He could see clearly that the break in the branch looked like it had been cut by a sharp blade. He looked at Xue Dao and his eyes lit up.

If any more branches tried to cause trouble, Snow Blade would exhale a breath and cut them off again. No matter how many branches there were, the white wolf handled them with ease. Soon, there was a pile of branches on the ground. Zhuge Qianxing's eyes lit up again and again. This white wolf was a wind-type mutant beast.

Zhu Fanfan continued fighting Haibu, but unconsciously used a spatial ability, exactly the same move Haibu had just used. Haibu was stunned for a moment, and in that instant, Zhu Fanfan used his mental power to injure his face, and drops of blood flowed down. After regaining his senses, Haibu continued to fight Zhu Fanfan. He hadn't fought so thoroughly in a long time.

The two fought with increasing intensity, and gradually their abilities and stamina slowed down. Zhuge Qianxing watched from the sidelines. He gained many insights this time, and his abilities also improved. At their stage, the improvement of their mental state was faster than the improvement of their abilities through normal cultivation.

He had previously thought that Xi Yan was already excellent enough. Just when he was feeling smug, he met Zhu Fanfan, whose talent was better than ever before. He thought that was the pinnacle. But today he met another one. He had already started to plot in his mind that he would do anything to bring one of them back with him.

He never expected that Fanfan had been keeping it from him, deliberately leading him to believe that she had a spatial treasure. No wonder she admitted it so readily back then. He thought she finally trusted him, but she lied to him again. She has spatial abilities. If she hadn't revealed her trump card during the fight with Haibu, would she still have kept it from him? Then he looked at the white wolf, the legendary superpowered beast with its own spatial ability. They had kept it from him for so long.

When the two were exhausted, they stopped in tacit agreement. Zhuge Qianxing felt sorry for them. Although they weren't covered in wounds, they were covered in blood. If he hadn't sensed that they were both very strong, he would have suspected that they were about to die. Is this what they call being able to slash a hundred times and only break the skin?

Zhu Fanfan took out two pills from his backpack, tossed one to Haibu, ate one himself, and began to circulate his internal energy. Zhuge Qianxing, standing to the side, was surprised: "You can refine pills?"

A mid-grade external injury healing pill, once taken and combined with internal energy cultivation, can basically stop bleeding and form a scab. It won't take long for it to heal completely.

After finishing his practice, Zhu Fanfan said, "Couldn't I have kept a little more in reserve beforehand?"

Zhuge Qianxing asked, "How many pills do you have left? I'll still take them as per the previous benefits."

Although there are alchemists in the Dragon Group, their quality cannot compare with that of Fanfan's alchemy. He just checked the quality, and although it is not as good as the ones submitted before, it is better than the quality of the alchemists they have trained themselves.

Zhu Fanfan looked at him like he was an idiot and said, "I used to be able to refine pills, so I would give you as many as I could refine. I could refine a batch myself when Brother Xi Yan wasn't around, although the quality wasn't that good and it was enough for our own people. But I can't refine pills anymore, so these are my life-saving pills. How could I possibly give them to you?"

Don't think she doesn't know that getting a pill from the Dragon Group comes at a high price, like a pawnshop where nine out of 13 pills are returned. She's not going to do such a losing business.

Zhuge Qianxing felt very regretful. Their alchemist had not made any progress in the past three years. Why couldn't this girl remember the medical skills? When would she be able to resolve her inner conflict?

Haibu has recovered: "Thank you. I would like to invite you to visit our village. Would you two do me the honor?"

Zhu Fanfan asked curiously, "Do you go to school too?"

The language was no different from theirs, there was no communication barrier, and I seemed to understand their customs very well, so it didn't seem like we were isolated from the world at all.

Haibu said somewhat embarrassedly, "We are also Chinese. When education was being popularized, the witch doctor said we couldn't be out of touch with the outside world, so we all went to school."

Although they got along well with the surrounding villagers, they had a big misunderstanding with the People's Liberation Army and even fought with them. Everyone felt awkward, but they believed the witch doctor's words, so they all went to literacy classes. It was at that time that they learned about the greatness of the new China and felt ashamed of their previous actions. They felt so ashamed that they didn't dare to come down from the mountain.

Zhu Fanfan also said, "Didn't you think about how inconvenient it would be to live on the mountain instead of on land?"

Haibu laughed and said, "We have lived in the mountains for generations and are used to it. Some young people want to go out and explore, so they often go down the mountain to the village to hear about new things."

Zhu Fanfan suddenly asked, "You don't still have the custom of stealing other people's girls to be your wives, do you?"

Haibu sighed helplessly, “That’s all in the past. We are now law-abiding citizens, and we even have our household registration certificates!”

Their people are all very capable. They think outsiders are stupid and foolish, and they don't even have the ability to protect themselves. They disdain to associate with them. Even warlords and bandits don't dare to provoke them. They have the right to be arrogant. The villagers below rely on them. Although they say that they take wives by force, the villagers are actually very happy to do so.

They would give betrothal gifts according to the standards for marrying a wife, carry out the wedding ceremony, and also help the father-in-law's family. It was a rule that everyone tacitly agreed to the practice of kidnapping brides. If someone did not want to marry off their daughter, they could back out even if they had been told her name.

Zhu Fanfan thought Haibu wouldn't lie, and asked curiously, "You're very capable, haven't you considered joining the Dragon Group?"

Haibu became interested: "Are you from the Dragon Group?"

Zhuge Qianxing immediately stopped Zhu Fanfan from speaking and replied, "I entered the staff as an extra-staff member by ranking first in all ten exams."