Keira was confused.
She took a step back and asked Jas, “What did you just call ?”
Jas hesitated slightly.
Thinking about how his third uncle preferred younger won, and that the banquet in a few days was
being held in a secretive manner without much fanfare, he cleared his throat, stepped forward, and
said, “I’ve co to understand your relationship with my third uncle. Well, it’s fine if you don’t want
to call you sothing so intimate in public.”
Keira didn’t know what to say.
Before she could figure out the relationship he ntioned, she saw Jas turn to the gatekeeper and
said, “This is an elder of my family… No, she’s a friend of mine. Be more respectful to her in the future.”
The gatekeeper imdiately clasped his fist in salute. “Second Senior Brother, understood!”
Then he turned to Keira with a fist salute. “I apologize,
youp
lady. If you had said you knew Second Senior Brother earlier, I would have let you in. However, the
Freeman Sect really doesn’t take temporary jobs.”
Only then did Jas look at Keira. “What temporary job?”
Keira coughed lightly, “I want to cooperate with the
Freeman Sect.”
“Cooperate?”
Jas was completely baffled.
The gatekeeper imdiately laughed. “Miss, what you’re proposing is just a one-ti deal, not
cooperation. Even if we assign a few people to protect you out of respect for Second Senior Brother, at
most it’s an employnt relationship, right?”
Keira stopped short on hearing this. “So what would qualify as cooperation?”
Jas explained, “Actually, the Freeman Sect does accept cooperation from anyone. We just practice
own martial arts. If you really want to talk about a cooperative relationship, the only way would be for
you to join the Freeman Sect and beco an İnner
Sect Disciple then we could perhans refer to it as a
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cooperation?”
Keira was dumbfounded.
Was this what martial arts families an by cooperation?
She had thought it would be like with the Olsen family and the Davis family, where finding a project
everyone could make money on was considered cooperation.
After pondering for a mont, she looked at Jas again. “So how can one join the Freeman Sect and
beco an Inner Sect Disciple?”
This question rendered Jas sowhat speechless.
He coughed, lifted his chin, and said, “Actually, it’s very difficult to beco an Inner Sect Disciple. Apart
from hard work acquired later, it mainly depends on natural talent. Those of us who wish to learn
martial arts are
sent to the Freeman Sect for Bone Assessnt around
the age of three or four. Only those with exception innate qualities are taken in as Inner Sect Disciples
the Freeman Sect.”
Jas patted his chest, confidently saying, “Out of the seven Olsen brothers of our family, not even the
eldes
was chosen only I was!”
Keira thought, “That’s your family, not mine.”
But…
If the Freeman Sect only took in kids, she certainly couldn’t turn herself into a three- or four-year-old
child, could she? What was she supposed to do now?
The first person she thought of was Amy.
But that wouldn’t do.
Amy’s personality was too gentle, and she wasn’t cut out for martial arts; her bones were too thin and
too soft, though she was quite good at dancing.
Keira was troubled. “Hasn’t there ever been an older person who was selected?”
“Yes!”
Jas said, “Our senior sister, she was noticed by the Sect Leader when she was fifteen!”
Speaking of the senior sister the gatekeeper got excited too. “Right, our Sect Leader said that our
senior sister had an extraordinary foundation.
Although she was fifteen, she was especially resilient seemingly because she had been beaten up from
a young age. As a result she developed an ironclad body.
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which is incredibly formidable. She’s a standout talent among our generation. Unfortunately, the Sect
Leader has been secretly training her, so none of us have seen what the senior sister looks like!”
ntioning the senior sister, Jas also looked wistful. “Our Sect Leader said he planned to have the
senior sister co back to the Freeman Sect at the age of 23 to give us so guidance. By my
calculations, that ti should almost be upon us…”
The gatekeeper imdiately got excited. “Second Senior Brother, you’ve practically fought all over the
Freeman Sect unbeaten. When the senior sister
arrives, the two of you should have a match! See who is more powerful!”
Upon hearing this, Jas gave him a smack on the head. “What nonsense are you spouting? How
could I compare with our senior sister? The Sect Leader said that she beca a disciple at fifteen,
beca a mas by eighteen, and at the age of twenty, she almost bested the Sect Leader by half a
move! I can’t even defeat the Sect Leader yet, how could I compare wit
the senior sister? Don’t stir up trouble for ! I know
my place!”
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The gatekeeper chuckled.
Keira, unable to contain herself as the two n chatted enthusiastically, interjected, “Actually, my
constitution isn’t too shabby either. I’ve been especially resilient to beatings since I was young. Could
you take to et your Sect Leader?”
As soon as she said this, both the gatekeeper and Ja’s fell silent.
They both looked toward Keira in unison, twitching at the corners of their mouths as if they thought
what she had just said was a joke.
Glancing at Jas, the gatekeeper coughed and said, “Not to put you down, but you’re over twenty this
year, aren’t you? No matter how skilled soone is, by that age their bones have set, and without a
solid foundation, it’s no good. The legend of the senior
sister, being able to practice martial arts at fifter the Sect Leader said it was because she never had e
to eat or wear when she was young, so her body fully developed…”
Keira explained, “…But I also started practicing ma arts when I was fifteen. Maybe there’s a chance?”
Back when she had just started middle school, she left the Olsen family at the age of fourteen. After
that, she worked to earn money and t a martial arts master of her own.
While she was selling balloons in the park and reading books at the sa ti, a middle-aged man
kept staring at her and then approached her.
“Young lady, I can see that you have an exceptional foundation and a natural talent for martial arts.
Why don’t you beco my disciple?”
At the ti, Keira was almost ready to call the police, daiming he was harassing her, until he finally
agreed to pay her five hundred bucks for an hour of martial arts practice with him every day. That was
when she consented,
She trained with him for four or five years, and
eventually, her master said he was going to wander world. He told her to keep practicing on her own
that he would look for her when the right ti car
Co to think of it, it had been two years since she last saw her master.
She didn’t even ask for her master’s na when he
left…
Keira then looked toward Jas. “Just take to see him. We won’t know if it’ll work or not until we
try.”
Jas wanted to refuse.
But then he rembered his uncle’s instruction from
this morning to be filial to his aunt, and he twitched at the corner of his mouth. “Alright, then follow !”
Jas tossed the car keys to the gatekeeper and walked into the compound with Keira.
The Freeman Sect was vast, and as soon as they
entered, they could see martial artists practicing all around, with grunts and shouts echoing non-stop,
oozing with masculinity.
After walking with Jas for about half an hour, they arrived in front of a bungalow. He said, “The Sect
Leader is ditating inside. I’ll call him for you.”
Inside the room.
At that mont, Trevor Freeman, the Sect Leader of
the Freeman Sect, had tears streaming down his face. He was looking at a photo with his disciple,
Keira, on his phone, sobbing uncontrollably.
Having been so picky all his life, he had only taken in one disciple, but how could she have drowned so
young?!
Just then, he heard Jas’s voice from outside the door, “Master, I’ve brought soone to see you. Is
it a good ti now?”
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