The man in black chasing after him kept sneering, “Run a little faster! I want to see just how long you can keep struggling!”

“Who are you, really? I have no grudge against you—why are you teaming up with Thomas Carter to kill me?”

If the people of The Carter Family wanted to kill him, they would come at him openly, just like Thomas Carter did. But the man in black chasing him was deliberately hiding his face, clearly not wanting anyone to see his true appearance.

The man in black patted his horse and laughed, “It doesn’t matter who I am. What matters is that today, you must die here!”

“Die?” William Carter looked back at the man in black as if he’d heard a joke, squeezed his legs around the “Chasing Wind Colt,” and said, “Catch up to me first! Hyah!”

The “Chasing Wind Colt” kicked up clouds of dust and, in the blink of an eye, shot several hundred meters ahead.

“Catching up to you is easy,” the man in black said with a flash of disdain in his eyes. He drew a dagger and, without even blinking, stabbed it into the back of his horse.

“Wheeze…”

The stabbed horse let out a mournful cry and, roaring, charged straight toward William Carter.

“Thud, thud, thud!”

The sound of hooves behind him grew louder and louder, making William Carter immediately turn around. Seeing the man in black closing in, his face was filled with disbelief.

The man in black’s horse was indeed faster than the “Chasing Wind Colt.” But to catch up, he should at least have to wait until William Carter entered the dense forest ahead.

Once there, even if the man caught up, William Carter could use the cover of the trees to shake him off.

But now, before he even reached the forest, the man had already caught up.

The distance between them shrank step by step. When the man was only a dozen meters away, William Carter saw the dagger on the horse’s back, with bright red blood constantly flowing from the wound.

Suddenly, William Carter understood, “No wonder he caught up so quickly—he really is ruthless!”

Chapter 10: Childhood Playmate

“Still trying to run? Prepare to die!”

The man in black behind him suddenly kicked off his horse, flipped several times in the air, and landed in front of William Carter, throwing a punch so powerful that the sonic boom startled the “Chasing Wind Colt” into rearing up on its hind legs.

William Carter pulled the reins tight, steadied the “Chasing Wind Colt,” shifted his body to the side, and jumped down.

The man in black chuckled, “Not bad, you managed to keep your balance and didn’t fall off.”

“Who is he?” William Carter was shaken to the core.

That voice was so familiar, but for a moment he just couldn’t remember where he’d heard it before.

The man in black raised his hand and slowly removed the black cloth covering his face, saying, “You really want to know who I am, don’t you? Since you’re not my match anyway, I’ll grant you your last wish before you die…”

“Andrew Carter!” William Carter stared at the scarred-faced youth, feeling as if his heart had been stabbed. No wonder that voice sounded familiar—he’d seen him somewhere before. It turned out to be the orphan his father had adopted!

This Andrew Carter had been a starving orphan, taken in by his father… He was William Carter’s childhood playmate. As a genius of The Carter Family, William Carter regularly received spiritual medicine from the family, and he would usually give half of it to Andrew Carter to help him cultivate.

With the help of the spiritual medicine, Andrew Carter’s cultivation advanced by leaps and bounds.

Two years ago, Andrew Carter suddenly left The Carter Family.

William Carter never imagined that when they met again, it would be under such circumstances.

Andrew Carter grinned triumphantly and said, “Surprised, aren’t you?”

“Why are you doing this?” William Carter said coldly.

“Why? Every time I saw you, I hated you! Why did you get your family’s love? Why was I the orphan?”

Andrew Carter’s eyes burned with near-mad rage. “I hated your hypocrisy! Giving me scraps for cultivation! And you called it splitting things evenly! Do you think I’d believe that? Now I have a new master! My cultivation has reached the eighth level of the Qi Wheel Realm!”

William Carter stared blankly at Andrew Carter. All his kindness back then had been repaid with this! With such hostility!

“You know everything you need to know. Now die!”

Andrew Carter’s tone suddenly shifted. He stomped hard, the ground sinking more than ten centimeters beneath his foot, and he charged at William Carter with the momentum of a boulder rolling down a hill.

“To keep your center of gravity steady at high speed—you can only do that at the eighth level of the Qi Wheel Realm. I can’t believe he’s reached the eighth level!”

William Carter had always thought Andrew Carter was only at the Qi Wheel Realm, and that with his Thunder Fist, he could still put up a fight if he went all out.

He never expected Andrew Carter to have reached the eighth level!

Now, he had no chance of winning.

While he was still in shock, Andrew Carter’s fierce punch was already flying toward his face.

The howling wind from the punch made his cheeks twitch.

“Thunder Fist!”

William Carter’s arms trembled, his aura no weaker than Andrew Carter’s. He threw a punch to meet the attack head-on.

Their fists collided, and a series of muffled “bang, bang, bang, bang, bang” sounds rang out from the impact. Immediately, William Carter was sent flying.