"Who?"
Yang Wenbin was startled.
He spun around, only to find that a young man in moon-white brocade robes had appeared behind him at some point.
His heart sank.
He vaguely sensed that something was wrong.
There had been no sign of this man's arrival... Not one of the five had noticed how he had appeared behind them.
"Who are you, Your Excellency?" Yang Wenbin asked in a low voice.
He rose to his feet.
He drew his weapon.
The five warily stared at the newcomer, ready to strike at any moment.
Jiang Qiao ignored them.
He merely looked at Liu Hei Wu, who lay on the ground like a lamb awaiting slaughter, and said with a smile, "Chief Escort Liu, it's been many days. How did you end up in this state?"
Back in Lan Guan City.
Jiang Qiao had briefly joined the Flying Horse Escort Agency.
In the end, he had even intervened to save them, preventing the agency from being destroyed by the evil creature.
When all was said and done.
He was also their benefactor.
Liu Hei Wu was just as surprised to see Jiang Qiao, but then delight appeared on his face. "Senior Jiang, it's been many days. I never expected to meet you here. What a coincidence."
As he spoke.
A bitter smile appeared on his face. "I had bad luck and fell into a trap."
"I've made a fool of myself in front of you, Senior Jiang."
Jiang Qiao looked only to be in his twenties, but Liu Hei Wu did not dare treat him as a young man in his twenties. How could someone in his twenties have reached the Innate Realm?
In the six hundred years of the New Dynasty, even the youngest person to reach the Innate Realm had been