Chapter 27: Tempering Bones with the Blood of Ten Thousand Beasts, Forging the Body with a Berserk Beast Soul

The young sect master of the Tenji Sword Sect… Layton Fitzharris! The instant Benson Santee heard that name, frost seemed to sweep across his face. Starting seven years ago, when Layton was only thirteen, he had challenged seven of Nirvana Hall's greatest prodigies in succession. Not one of them escaped humiliation. Not one of them avoided defeat. Even Clark Letherdale. All seven had been crippled by Layton's hand. Tendons severed. Spines cut through. They had bled out, dying in agony as they...