Meanwhile.
After Ao Xue Flying Sword slew the Black Snake Protector with a single strike, it returned to the Preserved Egg stall and began nourishing itself inside Li Zhōujūn's body.
"Not bad." Li Zhōujūn praised it lightly.
Ao Xue Flying Sword let out a crisp sword hum, as if expressing its happiness.
"How about I reward you with two Preserved Eggs?" Li Zhōujūn asked with a smile.
At those words, Ao Xue Flying Sword instantly drooped like an eggplant struck by frost. Its originally indestructible blade actually bent down in a thoroughly humanlike manner.
Clearly, Ao Xue Flying Sword did not care for Preserved Eggs.
"What a pity. Such delicious food, and you don't even like it." Li Zhōujūn shook his head.
Just as Li Zhōujūn was preparing to rise and leave, several burly men came toward him.
Their leader was a brawny man with a gleaming bald head, draped in tiger skin, and a centipede-like scar across his face.
The moment the men appeared, pedestrians by the roadside fled in all directions as if they had seen a Baleful Spirit.
That bald man was a notorious thug and ruffian in Changqing Town. His name was Jia Hu, but people had privately given him the nickname Fake Tiger.
"That gentleman has been targeted by Fake Tiger. I'm afraid he's in for trouble."
"He must be some young master out sightseeing. He tossed out a whole string of copper cash just like that. As the saying goes, wealth shouldn't be flaunted. Isn't that why Fake Tiger noticed him?"
The pedestrians who had stopped by the roadside to watch saw Jia Hu and his men swaggering menacingly toward Li Zhōujūn, and began discussing among themselves.
Yet when Li Zhōujūn saw the ill-intentioned men approaching, he merely chuckled inwardly.
"Sir, we brothers haven't