“Thank you, Cooper Brothers!”

Andrew Cooper smiled and waved his hand, “No trouble at all. Besides, in the days to come, the two of us will have plenty of time to get closer.” After saying this, he didn’t explain further, just said to the bewildered William Foster, “I won’t disturb Brother Foster’s rest. We’ll talk about the details tomorrow!” Then he returned the wooden token that originally belonged to William Foster and turned to leave.

“What does that mean?”

Unable to figure it out, he set it aside for now. What William Foster cared about most at the moment was whether, now that he had become an official constable, that so-called system would finally give him some kind of reward.

“My status has improved, right? Has my authority been upgraded?”

After closing the door, he hurriedly entered the system and immediately looked toward the piles of sect options, hoping to spot some familiar names.

And sure enough, he really did spot a few!

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Chapter 10: The Five Tigers Gate-Cleaving Saber Returns

Looking left and right, William Foster found that although there were many more options that seemed familiar, when it came down to it, none of them were really suitable for him.

For example, the Wuliang Sword Sect sounded like a good choice, but in reality, the sect’s foundation wasn’t great. They had managed to steal a few moves from the Xiaoyao Sect’s sword techniques—but hadn’t learned them very well—and the sect itself didn’t have any truly remarkable skills.

Moreover, their ability to teach disciples was extremely mediocre—a true background extra.

Most importantly: William Foster didn’t know any sword techniques!

He was currently focused on fist techniques, had some basics in palm and finger techniques, and since his internal strength was lacking and he hadn’t mastered any legendary inner power, saber techniques would be an effective supplement—he could rely on the sharpness of the blade to make up for his lack of strength.

So, what he needed now was a sect specializing in fist and saber techniques, with saber techniques being the more urgent. Not only could he learn better saber skills, but the system could also provide a master to properly guide him in practicing the Eighteen Chopping Techniques.

In fact, there were quite a few such sects, like the Five Phoenix Saber and the like, but after scanning through them, William Foster immediately set his sights on the Five Tigers Gate-Cleaving Saber Sect!

The Five Tigers Gate-Cleaving Saber—this was always the ultimate background extra in countless wuxia stories, but the best thing about this technique was that you could find it in almost any martial arts novel. If there were different levels of background extras, the Five Tigers Gate-Cleaving Saber would undoubtedly be the must-learn skill for the high-level ones.

Now, what William Foster was most curious about was: which novel’s version of the Five Tigers Gate-Cleaving Saber was this sect based on?

“Anyway, I need to learn a saber technique, so I might as well pick a famous one!”

He decided to set aside things like the Five Phoenix Saber and the Soul-Chasing Saber for now, and chose the Five Tigers Gate-Cleaving Saber Sect!

Once he made his choice, the screen changed again. Unlike when he chose the Divine Fist Sect, this time a brief introduction appeared:

Five Tigers Gate-Cleaving Saber Sect, inherited from the Qin Family Stronghold in Yunzhou!

Next came a list of masters to choose from, and to William Foster’s surprise, there was a very familiar name on the list: Arthur King!

“Why is this guy on the list too?”

In fact, in the original works of a certain grandmaster, there was no such thing as a Five Tigers Gate-Cleaving Saber Sect. However, since this technique was mentioned in multiple novels and was clearly passed down in a single lineage, the system had specially separated it out and consolidated it into a sect for users to choose from.

William Foster had stumbled into picking this sect by accident, so anyone who had used this saber technique in a grandmaster’s novel, as long as their background wasn’t clearly defined, was included in this sect.

Among them, Arthur King was one whose background wasn’t specified, but his signature move happened to be one of the techniques from this saber style!

Having chosen the sect, the next step was to pick a master. According to William Foster’s thinking, he should pick the best one, namely the founder of the Five Tigers Gate-Cleaving Saber, a certain generation’s leader of the Qin Family Stronghold, Philip Turner.

But to his frustration, he found that Philip Turner actually required thirty points, which was hard for him to accept.

“He’s just the founder of the Five Tigers Gate-Cleaving Saber—why is he so expensive?”

Looking further down, there was another famous expert from the Qin Family Stronghold, Samuel Parker, who was a bit cheaper than Philip Turner, but still cost twenty points.

William Foster looked at his remaining seventeen points and almost coughed up blood, wishing he could grab a saber and split the screen in two.

Further down, the prices dropped a lot, and there were even many people William Foster had never heard of—of course, the cheapest was still the “Five Tigers Gate-Cleaving Saber Sect Disciple,” which only cost three points to redeem.

“A mere disciple costs the same as the Overcoming Three Fists? Is the Five Tigers Gate-Cleaving Saber really that awesome?”

Looking through the list, the good ones were too expensive, and he didn’t dare buy the bad ones. What if he spent his points and ended up with a useless dud? He didn’t even know if the system allowed returns.

After thinking for a while, he decided it was safer to pick someone with a real name, and finally chose the reasonably priced Arthur King—which cost exactly seven points, leaving him with ten.

Suddenly, his vision blurred, and a man appeared before William Foster: not very tall, but extremely burly, with a full beard and a shiny, thick braid coiled on his head.