"Rest assured, Dragon King. Our Pai Gang still has some influence in Kaiming City. I made thorough preparations beforehand; finding Old Blade Zhao before the Life and Death Duel should not be a problem. I will go personally and invite him to meet the Dragon King."
Having said that, he cautiously stepped forward and took the seemingly weightless wooden blade from Meng Zhao's hand. Though the sheath blocked its mysterious qualities, recalling his earlier sensation, he still did not dare look at it for long. He put it away and immediately left.
After leaving the room and arriving at the manor's front courtyard, he dismissed the others and summoned a middle-aged man alone. The man had a pointed mouth, monkey-like cheeks, a slight build, and an exceedingly wretched appearance. He asked, "Old Eighth, have you found the whereabouts of the two men I told you to investigate?"
The Pai Gang had been founded single-handedly by Lu Hou'er. He was the gang's core and its very soul, though naturally, capable men had also lent their aid along the way.
Old Eighth was one of his trusted assistants. His martial arts were mediocre, and his natural endowment ordinary. Back when he had followed Lu Hou'er to conquer the world, he had merely been a Houtian Realm Martial Artist. Only after Lu Hou'er's martial arts steadily improved and the Pai Gang's resources began flowing without end had he been helped into the Innate Realm.
However, martial artists who had been forcibly pushed into the Innate Realm through external means were left with an inherent flaw, making further progress difficult. Thus, after all these years, this wretched man nicknamed Old Eighth remained at the first aperture of the Innate Realm. He could not be called the weakest Innate martial artist, but he was not