The Inn's Treasure

Several hunters came stumbling down like blood gourds, their battered sheepskin coats torn into ragged strips.

They were panic-stricken, their legs weak, and ended up rolling down the hillside.

"The Tiger Demon is eating people!"

A sturdy farmwife saw them and immediately shrieked at the top of her voice.

That instantly blew the entire market into chaos.

The old man selling candied hawthorn gave a violent start. His straw rack clattered apart, and the hawthorn balls rolled into a heap of donkey dung.

The big man performing the chest-shattering-boulders act had just raised his hammer when the bluestone slab beneath him cracked in two with a sharp snap.

It was not because he possessed Firm Strength, but because the person assisting below had shaky hands.

The monkey troupe had it even worse. Seven or eight unruly monkeys screeched wildly, dragging their chains into the crowd, knocking over the steamer baskets at the bun stall and tearing apart the awning of "Wu Family Sesame Cakes"...

The market crowd was already packed tight, and the chaos triggered a chain reaction.

Many people heard it as "the Tiger Demon has come down the mountain to eat people." Seeing everyone else running, they hurriedly scooped up their children and forced their way out in blind panic. Those who rose on tiptoe to watch the excitement were knocked staggering...

Sha LiFei and the others were not idle either.

Seeing a child knocked down and trampled beneath the crowd, Sha LiFei stepped forward at once. Crossing his hands, he used deft force to part the crowd and swept the wailing child into his arms.

Wu Ba possessed astonishing strength. With one palm, he slapped the scalding oil pot back into place, then single-handedly held up the thick wooden banner pole that was about to collapse.

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