The entire venue fell into deathly silence, with only Jia Dachun's breathing growing ever weaker.
Jia Dachun, stabbed in the back, had a deeply complicated look in his eyes. He could not understand, could not make sense of why Shi Dong's blade had plunged into his back.
"Why..." Jia Dachun still stood ramrod straight. Even with such grievous wounds, he had not fallen at once. Such was the formidable vitality of an Internal Energy martial artist.
"Gang Leader, you talked too much." Shi Dong spoke coldly, then prepared to pull out his blade and completely sever Jia Dachun's lifeline.
However, the next moment, he discovered that he could not pull the blade free for the time being. The dying Jia Dachun had clutched the blade's tip before his chest in a death grip.
He was far too unwilling to accept this. At his age, he had entered the Internal Energy realm and was at the peak of his condition. In the future, he was destined to claim a place for himself throughout Giant Rock City.
Once Qin Xiu and Ge Wen had died of old age, he would become Giant Rock City's strongest.
He had originally intended to use this birthday banquet as an opportunity to grandly announce that he had become an Internal Energy expert.
Yet his campaign had failed before it began, and he had died before achieving anything.
For it to end like this, he was unwilling—utterly unwilling.
"You traitor, die!"
With the last of his hatred, Jia Dachun struck. In a final flash of returning light, he gathered every shred of strength he could still squeeze from himself into his other hand, then launched a punch.
Boom!
The fist stirred up a fierce wind before finally landing on Shi Dong's broad shoulder.
Pow!
He was, after