Speaking from the Heart

Outside Yungao City, the broad river reflected the stars and moon. Light rippled across the water, pleasure boats crowded together, and every night was lively with lilting music, soft songs, and graceful dancing.

Even along the banks, people came and went. The aroma of food, vendors' cries, and children guessing lantern riddles mingled with officials and nobles, peddlers and laborers to weave a night scene of the mortal world.

"When life goes your way, drink your fill of joy."

Qin Ming drank beneath the moon and gazed into the night, but tonight, things had not gone his way.

"To think I was hunted by True Immortals—and two of them at that. They really think highly of me."

He pondered which great power had moved against him.

"Could it be some old monster from the Imperial Dynasty?" His thoughts immediately turned to the foremost power in this region: the Great Tai Dynasty.

"When trouble strikes, blame the strongest local outfit. You can't go wrong!"

Qin Ming was in Great Tai Dynasty territory. Which organization was most suspect? Who else but the biggest landlord around could send out True Immortals?

At the very least, he believed one of the two True Immortals was probably connected to the Great Tai Dynasty.

He knew perfectly well that even across an entire super-dynasty, True Immortals were as rare as phoenix feathers and qilin horns.

"The Man in Green—Jing Qian. He shouldn't be hard to ask about, should he?" Qin Ming tapped the tea table lightly.

During the battle, the True Immortal-level Divine Archer in the night sky had called out that name, handing him an important clue.

At the time, Jing Qian had not cared that his identity was exposed.

That was because he had been absolutely confident he could kill Dayi of the Sixth