e mouth, yet his eyes were unexpectedly small and round, like 2 peas. Still, the force in his stare was positively menacing as they looked Duan Yu up and down over and over again, causing Duan Yu to shudder involuntarily. He had an average built, but his legs were skinny, almost to the bone. He carried a beard that looked as if it was made out of iron, every single strand was stiff and straight. Despite the beard, it was impossible to tell how old he was. He had on a silk robe which drooped down to his knees. The silk was of a very high quality and expensive, yet the pants he had on was made of very cheap and rough material and was so dirty that it was difficult to make out its original. His fingers were long and pointy, which reminded Duan Yu of chicken paws. At first glance, Duan Yu had thought that this man was just indescribably ugly, but the more he looked at him, the more he felt that it was only because the man’s looks, built, and even clothing just simply didn’t match.

“Come here,” Mu WanQing instructed. “Stand beside me.”

“You… you sure he won’t harm you?” Duan Yu asked.

Mu WanQing let out a little cold laugh and said: “With that little bit of stuff you know, what chance do you have of stopping ‘the Divine Croc of the South Seas’?”

Despite her tone of voice, Mu WanQing couldn’t help but be touched that Duan Yu would actually put himself in danger to protect her.

Duan Yu figured that she was right. If this man wanted to get him out of the way, all he had to do was simply lift his arm. So it was probably best not to anger him yet. Thus he backed up until he was even with Mu WanQing and said: “Oh, so you are ‘The Divine Croc of the South Seas’ who’s kungfu is ranked number… number… that is… I have much admired your famed and illustrious name. I have humbly been able to meet several brave men and heroes these last couple of days, and I have to say that your amazing kungfu has to be the best among them. Not one of those rocks I tossed down hit! Sir, your kungfu is truly amazing.”

“Even though I’m brown-nosing, his kungfu really is something else, so all this kissing up isn’t that bad.” DuanYu reasoned.

Divine Croc of the South Seas was on cloud nine from all the praise that Duan Yu tossed at him. So he let out another, rather stiff, laugh and replied: “Your kungfu might not be anything to brag about, but at least you know what’s good when you see it. I guess I’ll let you live just for that. Now get out of my way.”

Ecstatic, Duan Yu suggested: “Then could you, sir, please let Miss Mu go too?”

Divine Croc’s eyes bugged out, reached out with one arm, and gave Duan Yu a shove that pushed him back several steps before he was able to recover his balance. In a heavy and vicious voice, he said: “Take one more step forward, and your old man here is going to kill you!”

“Men like him is capable of doing anything. I better just stay here for now.” Duan Yu thought to himself.

Divine Croc opened his eyes wide and sized Mu WanQing up several times before asking: “Did you kill ‘Little Devil’ Sun SanBa?”

“Yes,” Mu WanQing replied.

“Did you know that he was my beloved disciple?”

Duan Yu was screaming on the inside: “Oh bad! This is bad! Miss Mu killed his beloved disciple, that’s not the kind of thing that you can just make it go away. Even if I kiss up to him ten times as much it would still be of no use.”

“Not when I killed him, but I did find out several days later.” Mu WanQing replied.

“Are of scared of me?” Divine Croc of the South Seas asked.

“No!”

Divine Croc let out a thunderous roar of fury that shook the entire mountain. “How could you be not scared of me? How… how dare you! Who’s protection are you hiding under?” He demanded.

“Yours!” Mu WanQing replied coldly.

Divine Croc was taken aback for a moment by this. “Damn rubbish! What do you mean you are hiding under my protection?”

“You are one of the ‘4 Arch-Villains.” How could a man at such a lofty position stoop so low as to attack a severely wounded girl?” Mu WanQing’s reply actually seemed to include a bit of praise.

Divine Croc paused a bit in surprise before bursting out laughing heartily: “That’s a pretty good point!”

Upon hearing the words “4 Arch-Villains,” Duan Yu suddenly realized that this man was actually a friend of Zhong Ling’s father, Zhong WanChou. Hoping to get to a better position using Zhong WanChou’s name, he cut in right as he heard the man make that last comment.

“Every where in the martial world you hear people say that the Divine Croc of the South Seas is a great hero and a brave man. Not only that, some people say that Divine Croc wouldn’t even fight if his opponent was just a single man. The more foes he fights at one time, the happier he is. This, obviously, shows how great of a fighter he really is.”

Divine Croc was smiling so much as he was listening to that that his round eyes became just 2 slits. Nodding profusely, he asked: “That’s another pretty good point, who did you hear that from?”

“No Measure Sword Sect’s head of their East Faction Zuo ZiMu, head of their West Faction Xin ShuangQing, the head of the Divine Farmer Clan SiKong Xuan, the master of Thousand-Enmities Valley Zhong WanChou, his wife Gan BaoBao, and then there’s Grandma Rui and Grandma Ping from just south of the Yangtze. Hehe, too many, too many. I can’t remember all of them.”

Divine Croc nodded and said: “You, little fella, is quite a character eh? Next time you hear somebody praising me, better remember his name for me, ok?” Turning to Mu WanQing, he inquired: “I heard that your kungfu is pretty good, how did you get hurt so bad? Who did it?”

Looking weak and wronged, Mu WanQing replied: “There were 4 of them and they ganged up on me. I’m not like you, the more enemies the better, I can’t handle that many of them.”

“Yet another good point. Four fighters ganging up on one girl? Have they got no shame?” Divine Croc replied.

“That’s right!” Duan Yu immediately cut in. “A real hero wouldn’t even fight if there was just one foe, where did they get off fighting 4 against 1? It’s a shame that you, sir, wasn’t there, or else you would grab one in each hand and snap the bones in half.”

“No! No! No!” Divine Croc shook his head vehemently.

Every time he shook his head and said the first “No!”, Duan Yu’s heart skipped a beat, he said 3 straight “No!” in a row, so Duan Yu’s heart skipped 3 straight beats. He could not figure out where exactly he had said something wrong.

“I don’t snap their bones in half. I just go ‘Crack!’ and snap their neck. Snapping their bones doesn’t necessarily kill then, no fun in that. But snap their necks and those sons of turtles will die. Don’t believe me? Then let me snap your neck and you’ll see.” Divine Croc continued.

“I believe! I believe you! No need to prove it to me.” Duan Yu immediately replied. Then he suddenly remembered that one of the servants in the Zhong family was welcoming a “Yue Number Two” of the 4 Arch-Villains who, because he mistakenly said “Yue Number Three” and called him a “great man,” had his neck snapped by the man. So the man in front of him must be Yue Two.

“That’s right! You are as evil as evil can get. Some people call you Yue Number Two, I say you should be Yue Number One. When Yue Number One grabs somebody’s neck, that man is dead for sure!” Duan Yu praised.

Happy beyond words, Divine Croc grabbed Duan Yu’s shoulders and shook him out of joy. “That’s right. That’s so right! You are a pretty smart little fella, actually know that I’m as evil as evil can get. Yue Number One is out of the question, Number Two is pretty good anyway.”

Duan Yu felt as if his shoulders were about to be squeezed into little pieces. Nevertheless, he forced a smile on his face and said: “Says who? I say the words ‘Yue Number One’ without the slightest of doubts in my heart.”

“Duan Yu, Duan Yu. What won’t you do to save Miss Mu? Kissing up like a coward, where are all those morals you got from all those books now?” He thought to himself. “But if it was just for me, then I would never say anything like this. Scared of death, what kind of a man would I be then? It’s only because I’m trying to save Miss Mu do I force myself to stoop down to such a level. It is written in the Book of Changes: ‘If going along helps those who are true, then real gentlemen should do it’. That’s the real logic behind conquering the hard with a soft touch.” Having reasoned himself to that point, he felt a lot better.

Divine Croc let go of Duan Yu’s shoulders and turned to Mu WanQing: “Yue Number Two is a real man and would never hurt a girl….”

“He still wouldn’t claim to the title of Number One. Wonder how evil that Number One guy is.” Duan Yu thought to himself, but afraid of upsetting him, he kept quiet and did not ask.

Divine Croc continued: “… Come next time when you have got helpers, then I’ll kill you. I can’t kill you today, but I have to ask you a question. I heard that you said you had always worn the veil so as to not allow anyone to see your face, and if anyone saw your face, then you’ll have to either kill him or marry him. Is this true?”

This was a complete shock to Duan Yu, and then he saw Mu WanQing nod, which made this whole matter even more confusing and shocking to him.

“Why the hell did you make up such a messed up rule?” Divine Croc asked.

“That is what I swore in front of my master. If I didn’t, my master wouldn’t have taught me kungfu.” Mu WanQing replied.

“And who the hell is your master? Talk about messed up! Wow, ridiculous stuff, just ridiculous!” Divine Croc replied.

“Out of respect to your seniority, I have been very polite towards you. But you are wrong to talk about my master in such a rude manner.” Mu WanQing replied with pride.

Divine Croc reached out and struck a huge piece of rock that was sitting right beside him with his palm. Immediately the rock shattered, sending small pieces flying off and hitting Duan Yu, giving him quite a sting. “How could a person be that good at kungfu? If that had hit a person, there’s no way the person would survive.” Duan Yu thought to himself as he turned and looked at Mu WanQing.

But Mu WanQing kept her stare, not showing the slightest hint of fear, not even a blink.

Divine Croc traded stares with her for a long time before finally breaking the standstill: “Alright, I guess you have point. Who is your master? Who is so… hehe… such… hehe….”

“Master is known as the ‘Guest of Secluded Valley’.” Mu WanQing answered.

“‘Guest of Secluded Valley’? Never heard of it, must not be anyone important!” Divine Croc mumble to himself while trying to recall where he had heard of the name before.

“My master lives alone in a secluded valley, that’s the reason for the name ‘Guest of Secluded Valley’. How could that compare with the famous name of yours?”

“Another good point.” Divine Croc nodded before suddenly raising his voice in a shout: “My disciple Sun SanBa, did he see your face? Is that why you killed him?”

“You know what kind of a person your disciple is,” Mu WanQing replied coldly. “Had he even learned a tenth of you kungfu, then I wouldn’t have been able to kill him.”

“Another good point.” Divine Croc nodded. But his thoughts turned to the fact that his sect had always, by rule and tradition, passed their kungfu down through one disciple and one disciple only. The death of Sun SanBa meant that more than 10 years of hard work in his teaching Sun SanBa had been completely in vain. The more he thought about it, the madder he got until he finally screamed: “TaMaDe!”

Seeing his complexion suddenly turn into a burnt yellow color and his expression turn animalistic, both Mu WanQing and Duan Yu was scared, and that was before they heard him scream: “I must avenge my disciple!”

“Second Master Yue, you already said that you wouldn’t hurt her.” Duan Yu immediately cut in, bumping him up to a more respectable “Second Master Yue”. “Besides, it’s probably for the best that your disciple died. He couldn’t even learn a tenth of your kungfu, had he lived, he could have lost you a lot of face.”

“Yet another good point. I can’t afford to lose any face.” Divine Croc nodded and turned to Mu WanQing. “Did my disciple see your face?”

“No!” Mu WanQing said, grinding her teeth together.

“Alright, so that my disciple may rest in peace, I’m going to take a look and see whether or not you look like an ugly monster or a beautiful goddess.”

This gave Mu WanQing the scare of her life. She had sworn in front of her master, if Divine Croc removed her veil by force, there was no way she could kill him, but how could she marry him? Almost panicking, she replied: “You are a famous man in the martial world, how could you stoop so low to do such an evil thing?”

“I’m as evil as evil can get, the more evil the action the better. I only have one rule in my life, and that’s never kill anyone who can’t fight back. Other than that, everything goes, nothing is off limits. So why don’t you just be a good girl, take off the veil yourself, and save me the trouble.” Divine Croc replied with a sneer.

“You really have to see my face?” Mu WanQing asked, her voice was shaking.

Growing impatient, Divine Croc threatened: “If you keep on stalling, not only am I going to take off your veil, I’m going to rip off all your clothes too. I said I won’t snap your neck, but snapping your arms and legs aren’t out of the question is it?”

“I can’t kill him, so the only way left is suicide.” Mu WanQing decided.

She turned to Duan Yu and shot him a look, telling him to run. Duan Yu shook his head. With a little quiver of his beard, Divine Croc reached out with those chicken-claw like hand of his, trying to grab Mu WanQing’s veil.

Mu WanQing flicked her sleeve. “Shoo! Shoo! Shoo!” Three small arrows shot out with lightning quickness and hit Divine Croc’s belly. But with a pop, each of the arrows fell harmlessly down to the ground, it was as if he had on some kind of armor underneath his shirt. With another twitch, Mu WanQing shot out 3 more poisonous arrows, 2 at his chest and 1 headed toward his face. As if they hit a hard rock, the 2 arrows flying towards his chest fell down onto the ground. The third arrow was just about to hit his face when Divine Croc reached up with his middle finger and, with a gentle flick, the arrow disappeared from sight.

Mu WanQing took out her sword and brought it up to her neck. However, because of her severe wounds, she was not able to move fast enough as Divine Croc, with one swift move, took the sword out of her hand and threw it onto the ground. With a cold laugh, he said: “My rule is only ‘Never kill anyone who can’t fight back’. You shot 6 arrows at me, so you made the first move. I’m going to take a look at your face and then kill you. You made the first move, so you can’t accuse me for breaking my rule.”

“No! You are wrong!” Duan Yu suddenly shouted.

“What!” Divine Croc turned his head towards Duan Yu.

“You call yourself a real man, how could you bully a severely wounded girl?”

“She just shot 6 poisonous arrows at me, didn’t you see that? This is a severely wounded girl bullying a real man, not a real man bullying a severely wounded girl.”

“No, you are still wrong.”

“Bullshit! What do you mean still wrong?” Divine Croc shouted in anger.

“Your rule is 7 words, ‘Never kill anyone who can’t fight back’, right?”

“That’s right!” Divine Croc’s eyes looked as if they were going to pop out.

“Can those 7 words be changed?”

“My rules, so of course they can’t be changed!” Divine Croc answered impatiently.

“Not one word?’

“Not even half a word!”

“If it’s changed, then what?”

“Then I’m a tortoise son of a turtle!”

“Ok, very good! You haven’t hit Miss Mu, yet Miss Mu tried to hit you with arrows, that’s not ‘fighting you’, that’s ‘striking first’. If you hit her, in her condition, there is no way that she could fight back. That’s why she tried to ambush you, because she can’t fight back. If you killed her, then you have changed your rule, and if you change your rule, then you are a tortoise son of a turtle.”

Duan Yu had been reading Confucius and Buddhist books ever since he learned how to read, and had analyzed all those ambiguous saying in those books down to the bone. Sayings such as “Is isn’t, but have not to”, and “White horse is no horse, hard rock is no rock”, he analyzed and thought about them until there was nothing left to think about anymore. That’s why at this crucial moment, he was able to just grab a hold of Divine Croc’s rule and run with it.

Divine Croc let out a furious howl and grabbed Duan Yu by the shoulders.

“How dare you call me a tortoise son of a turtle?” He shouted as he was about to bring his palm down on Duan Yu’s head.

“If you change your rule, only then are you a tortoise son of a turtle!” Duan Yu shouted back in a hurry. “If you don’t change your rules, then you won’t be a tortoise son of a turtle! Whether or not you are a tortoise son of a turtle is completely up to you.”

Seeing that even though his life hung by the thinnest of threads, Duan Yu was still shouting “tortoise son of a turtle” non-stop. Mu WanQing knew that Divine Croc would undoubtedly explode in anger and break his neck. Suddenly overwhelmed with sadness, tears filled her eyes as she turned away, not wanting to watch any further.

But unexpectedly, those few words stopped Divine Croc in his tracks. “If I break his neck, then wouldn’t that be killing someone who couldn’t fight back? Doesn’t that make me a tortoise son of a turtle?” He thought to himself.

Staring at Duan Yu with that pair of small eyes of his, he gradually tightened his grip. Soon, Duan Yu’s bones were creaking, hurting him so much that he almost fainted. “Come on! Kill me! I can’t fight back!” Duan Yu shouted at the top of his lungs.

“I’m not going to fall for that!” Divine Croc replied. “You really want me to be a tortoise son of a turtle don’t you?”

As he said that, Divine Croc lifted Duan Yu off the ground and slammed him down hard back onto the ground. Duan Yu temporarily blacked out from the impact before recovering to feel as if all of his internal organs had exploded.

“I’m not going to fall for that! I’m not going to kill you 2 little devils!” Divine Croc mumbled to himself before suddenly reaching out and grabbing the green silk cape that Mu WanQing was wearing.

With a loud rip, he tore it off. Mu WanQing let out a shocked yell as she instinctively shrank back. Divine Croc merely raised his arm up and tossed the cape aside. The cape caught the wind and started to fly off. Like a giant lotus leaf, it gently glided over the edge of the cliff and into the raging currents of the LanCang River. “If you don’t take off your veil now, I’m going to rip off your shirt next!” Divine Croc said with a sinister smile.

“Come here,” Mu WanQing gestured towards Duan Yu, who limped over to her side as quickly as he could.

Mu WanQing turned towards him so as to face away from Divine Croc. “You are the first man in this world to see my face.” She said gently and slowly removed her veil.

Duan Yu’s entire body shook. What he saw before him was more elegant than the shiny moon on a cloudless night and more beautiful than the lonesome flower that blossoms in the middle of a blizzard. A beauty fit for legends. The only thing was that her face was incredibly pale, which was most likely due to the fact that she was wearing the veil for such a long time. Even that thin pair of lips lacked color, but to Duan Yu, it just made her seem even more vulnerable and lovely. How could this be the same person be that monster who wouldn’t even blink when she killed?

Mu WanQing put her veil down on the ground. “If you want to see my face, you are going to have to ask my husband first.” She said to Divine Croc without turning around.

“You are married? Who’s your husband?” Divine Croc didn’t quite believe what he just heard.

“I swore that if a man ever saw my face, I would either kill him or marry him.” Mu WanQing said as she pointed at Duan Yu. “He had already seen my face, and I don’t want to kill him. So I can only marry him.”

“This… this is….” Duan Yu was rendered completely speechless from this turn of events.

After recovering from the initial shock, the Divine Croc turned to Duan Yu. He sized Duan Yu up and down with those pea like eyes of his, sending chills down Duan Yu’s spine as he was afraid that Divine Croc would, in a fit of rage, would snap his neck in an instant. Suddenly, Divine Croc began clicking his tongue over and over again out of excitement. “Amazing! Simply amazing! Quick! Turn around!” He said as his face lit up.

Too scared to disobey him, Duan Yu turned around. “Amazing! Wonderful! You look just like me! You are just like me!” Divine Croc commented.

There was not a thing that he could have said that would have shocked Duan Yu and Mu WanQing more than those 5 words: “You look just like me”. The 2 of them thought to themselves: “What are you talking about? You are a kungfu master, and ugly. There is not even a similarity, not to mention the words ‘just like’?”

Divine Croc practically jumped behind Duan Yu as he proceeded to grab the back of Duan Yu’s head, squeeze his arms and legs, and even poke his waist a couple of times. After a couple of pokes and grabs, he cracked open a huge smile: “Just like me! Almost exactly like me!” Grabbing Duan Yu’s arm, he continued. “Come on with me!”

“Go with you to where?” Duan Yu asked, completely befuddled.

“Oh just come with me!” Divine Croc replied. “Quick, kowtow! Then beg me to take you on as a disciple. As long as you beg, I will immediately take you in.”

“What! This… this….” For the second time in just minutes, Duan Yu was rendered completely speechless by the surprising turn of events.

Divine Croc began jumping around and waving his arms like crazy, as if he had just found the most precious jewel in the world. “Your arms and legs are extraordinarily long, the back of your head is protruding out, and your waist is very soft and flexible; plus you are smart, young, and male. You are truly an amazing specimen for learning kungfu.” He turned around as he spoke. “See? This is the back of my head, isn’t it just like yours?”

Duan Yu felt the back of his head, it really did seem as if the back of their heads were very alike. Who knew that when he said “You are just like me!” he was only talking about the back of their heads?

Turning back around with the biggest possible smile on his face, Divine Croc continued: “We South Sea Sect had always had this rule, each man can only take one disciple. That dead disciple of mine, ‘Little Devil’ Sun SanBa, the back of his head was nowhere near as good as yours. So he sucked, couldn’t even learn a tenth of my kungfu. It’s best that he died, this way is all clean and neat, because I don’t have to kill him now so I can take you as a disciple instead.”

Duan Yu involuntarily shuddered. He was thinking to himself how cruel this man in front of him was, willing to kill his very own disciple so as to be able to change disciples just because he noticed someone else was better suited for kungfu. Even if he did want to learn kungfu, which he didn’t, he would never choose this person to be his master. But if he refused, then disaster would be upon him. Just as he wasn’t sure what he should do, Divine Croc suddenly shouted at the top of his lungs: “What do you think you guys are doing sneaking around like that! Get the hell out here now! Every single one of you!”

A dozen or so people came crawling out of the bushes, among them were Grandma Rui, Grandma Ping, and that swordsman. Since Divine Croc had climbed onto this ledge, Duan Yu had not been able to toss more rocks and thus keep them away. So this group was able to sneak up the cliff as well.

Even though they were holding their breaths and not moving while they were in the bush, they had no chance of escaping Divine Croc’s sensitive ears. Because he was so overjoyed at discovering such a spectacular treasure in Duan Yu, he didn’t really get angry right away. So he shot a mean look towards Grandma Rui, with a smile still lingering on his face, and shouted: “What are you doing here? Did you come to congratulate your old man here on finding a price disciple?”

“We are here to catch this little whore,” Grandma Rui pointed to Mu WanQing and said, “to avenge the deaths of our companions.”

“She’s my disciple’s wife!” Divine Croc yelled back, “How dare you try and capture her? TaMaDe! Get the hell out of here!”

Everyone was speechless as they just stood there, staring at each other.

Duan Yu finally summed up his courage and spoke up: “I can’t be your disciple, I already have a master.”

This made Divine Croc furious: “Who’s your master? How can his kungfu be any better than mine?”

“You probably can’t do a single bit of my master’s kungfu! The ‘Gua-Xiang’ and the ‘Xi-Ci’ of ‘Zhou-Yi’, do you know anything about them? How about the reasons behind ‘Ming-Yi’ and ‘Wei-Ji’? Can you explain them to me?”

Divine Croc of the South Seas just scratched his head. Gua-Xiang? Xi-Ci? He really never ever heard of any of them. Ming-Yi? Wei-Ji? For all he knows they really might be some kind of incredible kungfu.

{Note: Once again, all those things that Duan Yu just quoted are ideas from the Book of Changes.}

Seeing the troubled look on his face, Duan Yu continued: “Looks like you don’t know any of these high level stuffs. So, while I’m grateful that you would actually consider me as a disciple, I could only accept it in my thoughts and not in my actions. How about next time I invite my master along and the 2 of you can duel it out and see who is really better. If you beat him, then I could still ask to be your disciple.”

“Alright! Who’s your master? It’s not like I’m scared of him or something. When do you want this duel to happen?”

Duan Yu only really wanted to ward him off for a while with that line of defense, but unexpectedly, Divine Croc was actually really demanding a duel. He was just in middle of trying to figure out what to say next when a sharp and metallic whistle came piercing through the mountains, apparently originating from very far away. The shrill lasted for an incredible, a disturbingly long amount of time. It was amazing that the person who was blowing the whistle could have such a long breath, as if his breath had no end. At first, what everyone on the ledge noticed was the almost unbearable pitch of the whistle, but the longer they listened the more shocked they became, until all they could do was stare at each other, again.

Divine Croc patted his head some and shouted: “I don’t have time to talk to you right now, Big Brother is calling me. When does your master want to fight me? Where at? Well? Come on!”

“This… uh… I… can’t really just arrange a fight for my master.” Duan Yu stuttered before suddenly turning around and pointing to Grandma Rui: “As soon as you leave, these people will kill the 2 of us. How will I be able to tell my master then?”

Without even turning around, Divine Croc reached back with his left hand and grabbed that sword-wielding man by the chest. Then, with a simple lean to his left, his right hand fell onto the top of the man’s head, his left hand rotated right, his right hand rotated left, and his arms intersected. “Crack!” That man’s neck snapped. His eyes stared out behind him as his head softly fell down. The sword in his right hand was half pulled out, which was already amazingly quick; but he still nevertheless died before he even pulled his sword out.

This was the same man, during the fight against Mu WanQing before, whose quickness stood out and was able to knock down those poison arrows that she fired at almost point blank range. But now, against just a simple twist from Divine Croc, he didn’t even have a fighting chance. All the spectators were so shocked that they couldn’t even move. Divine Croc then casually flicked his arm and tossed the corpse to the side. Three men who were with Grandma Rui suddenly, and simultaneously, let out a huge howl and charged. Divine Croc lifted up his right foot and kicked 3 times. All 3 of the men took off and flew over the cliff. The bloodcurdling shrieking came shooting up from the bottom of cliff and echoed all around the mountains until every hair on Duan Yu’s body was standing on its end. Everyone of the group with Grandma Rui was scared out of their wits. “‘Crack’ and one neck is snapped. Hehe, so much fun!” Divine Croc said with a laugh. “One is not enough, I have to do it again. Whoever gets left behind will get his neck snapped.”

Scared beyond description, Grandma Rui, Grandma Ping, and the rest of the people in her group all scrambled to the edge of the cliff as fast as they could and began to climb down.

“Can your master do that?” Divine Croc turned towards Duan Yu with a strange laugh. “If you become my disciple, I would immediately teach you how to do that. Your wife’s kungfu is pretty good, so if she doesn’t listen to you, then you can just ‘Crack’ and snap her neck in half.”

Suddenly the metallic shrill picked up again, only this time it was in an endless number of short screeches. “Alright, alright! I’m coming! You and your grandmother, what’s the hurry?” Divine Croc yelled at the direction of the whistle, as if the other person could hear him. “Be a good boy and wait here, don’t you go anywhere.” He instructed Duan Yu before he hurriedly ran to the edge and jumped over the edge.

“That’ll surely kill him wouldn’t it?” A surprised Duan Yu thought to himself.

So Duan Yu ran to the edge of the cliff and looked down. Divine Croc was making his way down the cliff a huge hop at a time. For every 30 meters or so that he fell, he would just reach out with his hand and push off of the cliff, enabling him to fall another 30 meters or so without hitting anything. Soon, he disappeared among the white clouds that surrounded the cliff.

Duan Yu stuck his tongue out and made a face out of a mixture of surprise, wor