But this Black Warrior of the Azure Dragon Society never expected that Little Mark's strike would come so fast.

　　Even with the skills of a Sirius Blackmoon level fifteen martial artist, he felt that this strike was unusually fast—so fast that his heart turned cold...

Chapter 9: Swift Horse Divine Fist

　　Blackmoon's subordinate, Dark Star John Carter, never understood, even at the moment of death, why he didn't even have a chance to fight back.

　　He was hit right after using Double Push Palms.

　　He was struck again after Hammering the Heavenly Gate.

　　He was killed by a kick from Little Mark, without even having time to lift a finger.

　　Little Mark was simply too fast.

　　Mark Benson was known as the number one in lightness skill at Taigu High School.

　　In reality, Mark Benson was not just the best at Taigu High School, nor even the best among all high schoolers in Boyang City, but the number one in lightness skill among all high school students in the three eastern provinces.

　　The martial art Mark Benson excelled at was not the Nineteen-Layer Grand Thousand Evolution Technique, but the Twenty-Three-Layer Wandering Among Flowers and Willows.

　　Wandering Among Flowers and Willows, this lightness skill, was reputed as the most graceful and elegant among folk martial arts, with its greatest advantage being the ability to exert force from any posture.

　　In other words, it trained almost every muscle, every joint, every way of exerting force in the body. Not only was it the best entry-level lightness skill, but also the best foundational martial art.

　　Precisely because this lightness skill allowed force to be exerted from any posture, it was also extremely difficult to master.

　　It even ranked first seven times and second twelve times in online polls for the hardest civilian martial arts to master, never dropping out of the top three.

　　Mark Benson didn't know why, either.

　　He had painstakingly spent ninety percent of his time and energy cultivating the Grand Thousand Evolution Technique, yet only managed to reach the nineteenth layer. But with Wandering Among Flowers and Willows, an extremely difficult lightness skill, he made rapid progress with just casual practice.

　　With good lightness skill comes fast hand speed, which is why Mark Benson was called Quick-Hand Little Mark.

　　Sirius Blackmoon's Great Grabbing Hand never even touched Mark Benson's fist. All he felt was a sudden tightness, and his whole body was sent flying.

　　A surge of thick, fierce internal energy penetrated his lower abdomen from behind, making it feel as if all his intestines were snapping apart. The intense pain made him let out a howl like a wolf.

　　Mark Benson landed his strike, stood up, and asked with great poise, "Azure Dragon Society?"

　　The man in black's eyes suddenly tightened, but even more so did his... He shouted coldly, "Young Divine Constable Zhao Tian!"

　　Mark Benson nodded confidently.

　　Who knew what other tricks this man in black had up his sleeve? Using the name of a master to intimidate the opponent was certainly smarter than revealing his own identity.

　　Although Little Mark had no idea who this Young Divine Constable Zhao Tian was.

　　Sirius Blackmoon was about to go crazy.

　　He had come to Boyang City this time merely to represent the Azure Dragon Society in a transaction with the Five Great Families, with no intention of committing any crime.

　　Yet his subordinate, Dark Star John Carter, was inexplicably killed, forcing him to take action personally and break into the Public Security Bureau to retrieve his subordinate's corpse.

　　When breaking into the city bureau, he hadn't expected the agents of the Public Security Bureau to fight so desperately.

　　Blackmoon struck David Benson with a palm, sending the old agent to the emergency room, but in return, he also took a punch from David Benson, coughing up half a mouthful of blood on the spot.

　　His skills were deep, and after a few hours of healing in his hideout, the injuries from David Benson's punch were mostly healed, but he still couldn't swallow his anger.

　　Sirius Blackmoon, with his strong desire for revenge, used underground channels to find out which hospital David Benson was being treated at, intending to personally finish off this troublesome old agent.

　　Facing the legendary "Young Divine Constable," Blackmoon gnashed his teeth in hatred and shouted, "So it really is you! Always using the Twelve Primary School Fitness Moves to injure people. This time, I admit defeat. The green hills endure, the rivers flow on—next time we meet, someone will surely take your life!"

　　"Next time?"

　　Mark Benson flashed a sunny, boyish smile.

　　This guy had come to kill Old Ma, with such a strong desire for revenge—how could he possibly let him leave alive?

　　"There won't be a next time."

　　Mark Benson gritted his teeth and spent fifty thousand martial arts points on the lightness skill Wandering Among Flowers and Willows.

　　Much of the intelligence in the original world was public knowledge.

　　For example, martial artists were divided into six major realms—Martial Disciple (also called Apprentice), Martial Artist, Martial Hero, Martial Saint, Martial God, and Martial Immortal!

　　Except for Martial Disciple, which had ten levels, the rest—Martial Artist, Martial Hero, Martial Saint, Martial God, and Martial Immortal—all had twenty levels!

　　The eight basic internal skills for martial arts students in elementary, middle, and high school all had fifty layers, with each layer corresponding to one level.

　　The first ten layers corresponded to the ten levels of Martial Disciple.

　　The middle twenty layers corresponded to the twenty levels of Martial Artist.

　　The last twenty layers corresponded to the twenty levels of Martial Hero.

　　Martial Disciple realm!

　　Roughly one thousand martial arts points could raise a martial art by one layer, depending on the quality of the skill, with some variation.

　　Martial Artist realm!

　　Roughly ten thousand martial arts points could raise a martial art by one layer, again depending on the quality of the skill.

　　Wandering Among Flowers and Willows was a Martial Artist realm lightness skill, with a maximum of thirty layers. The martial arts points needed to raise one layer were slightly lower, about seven thousand points.

　　Little Mark had already cultivated Wandering Among Flowers and Willows to the twenty-third layer. Gritting his teeth, he spent a fortune to raise this lightness skill by seven levels in a row, reaching the thirtieth layer of perfection, enough to rival a level-twenty Martial Artist famed for their lightness skill.