This man was not tall—at most about 1.7 meters—and even appeared somewhat thin and small. Yet when he walked out of the villa, Emma Sullivan felt an indescribable aura about him, as if every step he took contained mysteries she could not comprehend, making his slight frame seem incomparably imposing, like a towering mountain.

The middle-aged man exited the villa and also noticed Emma Sullivan and Lily, but he merely glanced at them before shifting his gaze away, heading straight for a black Audi sedan parked across the street. He quickly got in and drove off.

“Who is that man... He doesn’t seem ordinary.”

After the middle-aged man left, Lily finally voiced her question.

“This person exudes a powerful life force from head to toe. His cultivation is at least at the third level of martial arts, with surging vital energy. He might have already refined his strength, opened all his meridians, and become a fourth-level martial arts master.”

“A martial arts master who has opened all his meridians and can circulate his energy throughout his body? No way, does Wangcheng actually know a martial arts master? Could you be mistaken? Maybe he’s just at the third level, coming here because he’s heard of the Flying Immortal Sword, Qin Xuerou…”

“That’s possible too. We know all the martial arts masters in the entire Green Province, and there’s no such person.”

Emma Sullivan was also somewhat uncertain.

A martial arts master—what kind of person is that? You should know, even the president of the Green Province Martial Arts Association is only at the fourth level.

“Let’s not overthink it. Why not just go in and ask?”

Lily was straightforward, tossing aside unnecessary thoughts and reaching to ring the doorbell of the Qin family villa.

But just then, Emma Sullivan’s phone suddenly rang. The special ringtone let her immediately identify the caller: “It’s Vice President Mark Evans of Green Province. Hello, President Evans, this is Emma Sullivan!”

“Emma Sullivan, you and Lily, come to Huanglong North Station immediately—the sooner, the better.”

President Mark Evans’s voice on the phone was quite urgent.

“Yes.”

Emma Sullivan agreed, then said to Lily, “It seems something urgent has happened. We need to go to Huanglong North Station right away.”

As she spoke, she got in the car first. Lily followed closely, fastening her seatbelt as she asked, “What happened? President Evans actually called you personally?”

“I don’t know. I’ll get on the ring expressway first. You check the association’s info group.”

“Okay.”

Lily divided the tasks, immediately taking out her own silver-white phone, logging in, and entering the association’s info group. By this time, there were already ninety-nine messages in the group, reaching the display limit.

“Emma, it’s not just us—every team is heading to Huanglong North Station... No, not just the branches, even the president and several vice presidents on duty are going. Wow, such a big commotion! Our branch is mobilizing everyone. Is some big shot coming to the Green Province branch? To alarm the president, four vice presidents, and several directors, it must at least be a fifth-level martial arts grandmaster!”

“The entire Martial Arts Association staff mobilized? What happened—could the Six-Year Chaos be starting early?”

Emma Sullivan suppressed her doubts, focused her mind, and sped toward Huanglong North Station at 140 km/h on the busy ring expressway.

Chapter 4: The Heretical Grandmaster

Huanglong North Station.

One of the two major high-speed rail stations in Green Province.

At this moment, in this station with 104 trains, all forty-four on-duty members of the Martial Arts Association had arrived, each waiting at Exit 3 as if facing a formidable enemy.

Lily, who had come with Emma Sullivan, glanced around and muttered, “President Adam Cooper, Vice President Benjamin Lee, Vice President Mark Evans, Vice President Emily Brooks... and the honored pillars of Green—Andrew Scott, the Severing Finger of Xuantian Thomas Hill, the Vajra Demon Subduer Master Morgan... How many martial arts masters do we have in Green Province? Excluding those who happen to be away, more than half of the remaining experts are gathered here. Who on earth is coming? Could it be several grandmasters from the capital’s main association?”

“Even if a grandmaster came in person, it wouldn’t warrant such a lineup.”

Emma Sullivan looked even more solemn than Lily. With her different background, her knowledge surpassed Lily’s.

“Emma, doesn’t the president always value you highly? Why don’t you go ask?”

Emma Sullivan shook her head. “Let’s just wait patiently.”

Waiting.

During the wait, four more Martial Arts Association members arrived at Huanglong North Station, two of whom were even on leave.

This cautious and grand display made everyone in the Martial Arts Association turn serious; even the initial whispers stopped, and all eyes were fixed on the exit.

Half an hour quickly passed.

As the long wait made the members of the Martial Arts Association grow restless, Adam Cooper’s phone suddenly rang. After answering, his expression changed slightly, and he quickly waved his hand: “To the ticket gate!”

With that, he hurriedly led the forty-eight members of the Martial Arts Association toward the ticket gate, looking quite anxious.