Before the Four Seas Merchant Guild.
Heads were carefully piled up one by one, gradually rising higher.
At the very top was undoubtedly Lu Jingtian's head, followed by Zhou Kun's and the head of an unidentified person. Then someone ladled scorching hot oil over them, and in an instant their skin split and flesh burst open, grease flowing onto the ground.
The faces of the leaders of the major powers in the prefectural city, who had been invited to witness the ceremony, all twitched.
In particular, Old Master Yuan, the "Heaven-Overturning Divine Monkey" of Dragon Tiger Martial Hall, and Zheng Ye, the Zheng Family head known as the "Mixed Gold Saber," stared gravely at the head whose face had been carved away.
Others might not know, but their disciples and subordinates were spread throughout East Spirit City. How could they not know that Yang Dongsheng, leader of the Righteousness Gang and their equal in fame, the "Righteousness Reaching the Heavens," had been deeply implicated in this matter?
He had also been missing for quite some time. Such a major event had come and gone without any sign of him, with his son Yang Dong sent in his place.
Perhaps it was not merely the man who had vanished without a trace—perhaps even his head was gone?
They had once envied him for having such an outside-the-city channel, one that would very likely produce another Inner Qi Perfection martial artist... Thinking of it now, they could only secretly count themselves fortunate.
The Four Seas Merchant Guild usually kept its edge hidden, to the point that people had nearly forgotten it was a colossal entity spanning the entire Yue Kingdom and doing business with countless great powers.
Only when its inverse scale was truly touched could one catch a glimpse of its