[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-chat-group-my-northern-dipper-fist-will-never-lo":3,"chapter-chat-group-my-northern-dipper-fist-will-never-lo-chat-group-my-northern-dipper-fist-will-never-lo-chapter-31":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Chat Group: My Northern Dipper Fist Will Never Lose!",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2349596,4593,"Chapter 31: This Is Already the Highest Culture Level in Our Borderlands","chat-group-my-northern-dipper-fist-will-never-lo-chapter-31",31,"\u003Cp>“Huh… you’re pretty tough, huh.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jia Ji, exhausted from relying on his qi-enhanced recovery and pain tolerance to endure a full day of punishment, lay sprawled like a dried salted fish across the cratered ground, utterly drained.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“That’s what I should say to you!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Esdes replied irritably; she hadn’t fared any better herself. She’d initially worried she’d gone too far, but quickly realized that concern was utterly needless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though every aspect of Jia Ji’s abilities paled beside hers, that mysterious blue power he summoned at will was infuriatingly resilient—each of her attacks was drastically weakened, with only two or three tenths of the force actually reaching him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even when she managed to knock him down, he’d spring back up like a roly-poly toy, tough, durable, and unharmed, with astonishing stamina.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By the final rounds, that damned man seemed to have completely read her fighting patterns, dodging every strike by a hair’s breadth, slippery as an eel—had she relied solely on hand-to-hand combat, the challenge level would’ve risen at least two tiers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Your durability and tenacity—I accept you!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“By the way, where are we right now?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The Jia Pishi Plains, northeast of the Empire. About ten days’ travel from the capital.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Aren’t you an official in the capital? This is practically beyond the border!” Jia Ji exclaimed. No wonder they’d fought so long without seeing a single soul—only a few unlucky dangerous species had wandered into their battle zone and ended up in their stomachs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thanks to nature’s bounty.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I’m on leave.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Huh?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“It’s all because of you.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Me?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jia Ji pointed at his own nose, puzzled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“If you know the future, you should know what kind of pigs and dogs rule the capital,” Esdes said, a cold sneer crossing her face as if recalling unpleasant memories.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“That’s true… If I were there, I’d probably start killing before I even sat down.” He was also curious how she’d managed to hold back, given her temperament.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Whoever provokes me, I kill.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Oh, I completely understand.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He’d already imagined Esdes gritting her teeth and pinching her nose upon arriving in the capital—but turns out she’d never held back at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What was the end of a dynasty like? You don’t need me to explain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The twilight of a dynasty is typically marked by political corruption, social chaos, economic collapse, peasant uprisings, foreign invasions—endless internal and external crises. Unless a divine hero emerges to restore the dragon’s lineage, collapse is inevitable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Staying in such an environment for years? It’s perfectly normal for one’s suppressed psyche to evolve into an extreme sadist…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Choosing to become a military officer in the Empire at this time? Esdes’s judgment is truly… Jia Ji gave her a thumbs-up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But it’s not entirely her fault—Esdes never went to school. The fact that she can read and write already makes her among the most cultured people in the borderlands.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I get the feeling you’re thinking something disrespectful.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Absolutely not. It’s just your imagination.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sixth sense of a beautiful girl is truly sharp. Jia Ji immediately launched into a clumsy topic change.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Oh, by the way.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He suddenly mentioned a name he’d never heard before—something that had just come to mind after learning their location, someone Esdes would definitely find interesting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Do you remember Melad Oberg?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Who?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“If I recall right, wasn’t she the assassin girl who fought you once at the martial arts tournament? After surrendering, she secretly came looking for you.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“…Oh, her!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Esdes’s expression darkened. In her otherwise flawless, unstoppable life, the only time she’d ever been humiliated was by this woman—not only had she failed to fully defeat her in combat, but the woman had later come to her doorstep trying to seduce her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yeah, that weird lesbian.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Melad Oberg, leader of the Oberg assassination syndicate, later became Hei’s mentor; a lesbian who adored yuri, she had the ability to control insect-type dangerous species through sheer will.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her organization, Oberg, was a legendary assassination guild named after the mythical God of Death, and had played a role in nearly every major coup in the Empire’s thousand-year history.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Empire had attempted to eradicate the group many times, but results were always unsatisfactory—it seemed no matter how many times they crushed it, the organization always rose from the ashes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jia Ji, however, knew exactly where Oberg’s current base was located—right here, in the Jia Pishi Plains, a region known for its S-class dangerous species.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Also known as the Sun-Moon Marsh, a deadly, uninhabited wasteland.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You mean the hunting ground I just happened to pick… is actually her hideout?” Esdes paused, stunned by the coincidence—then burst into laughter. What an unexpected bonus.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Perfect! Excellent! Absolutely perfect!!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her eagerness overflowed. She couldn’t wait a moment—grabbing Jia Ji’s collar, she kicked off the ground, leaping from branch to branch above, swiftly reaching the treetop canopy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, with a casual flick, she hurled the “friend” she’d just met a hundred meters into the air.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Holy shit!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jia Ji, still dizzy from the spin, cursed—but he understood why she’d done it: to help him locate Oberg’s base.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Dangerous species… dangerous species… huge dangerous species… still dangerous species…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Until Esdes caught his eighty-kilogram body, Jia Ji had spun 360 degrees in midair and spotted many large dangerous species—but none matched the right location.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You’re rushing too much.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sitting cross-legged on the treetop, chilled by the wind, Jia Ji firmly refused her second attempt to toss him up. He closed his eyes and began dredging up distant memories.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With a mental strength of 1.8, he could easily recall nearly everything he’d seen—finding the base’s location? Easy as pie…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Alright, I can’t remember.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Who the hell remembers stuff like this?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Melad only appeared in the spin-off “Black Blood Blades: Zero.” For Jia Ji to recall even this much was already his limit—anything more would be unreasonable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Let’s just search slowly…” Jia Ji sighed. He had no better plan—the area wasn’t huge, but it wasn’t small either.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Wait—you saw a lot of dangerous species just now, right?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yeah, so what?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Which direction had the fewest and weakest ones?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Ohhh, I get it!” Jia Ji’s eyes lit up. “Southwest. There are almost no dangerous species there.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Simple logic: just as powerful dangerous species claim territories, Oberg’s base would naturally avoid having too many threats nearby.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The place with the fewest dangerous species? That’s the most likely location.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I misjudged you, Esdes! I didn’t think you’d be this smart—you even use reverse thinking!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By the way, I never went to school either.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Glossary Entry 114: “I never went to school either”—from Chainsaw Man\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(End of Chapter)\u003C\u002Fp>",1099,"2026-06-21T02:38:13.240Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","bf919cd11c2e2ba5b9089cdd375e500a343594d9424dfaa6a2928772db5a22e0","chat-group-my-northern-dipper-fist-will-never-lo-chapter-32","chat-group-my-northern-dipper-fist-will-never-lo-chapter-30",355,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fchat-group-my-northern-dipper-fist-will-never-lo-cover.jpg"]