Nighttime Extermination of Evil Spirits
Who knew what price Xu Ji had paid, but the Old Shopkeeper was clearly favoring him.
For one thing, Hu Ma had already received a promise, yet in the end it had turned into a contest between the two of them, with the winner taking all.
For another, the Old Shopkeeper's challenge was to get rid of a powerful Evil Spirit.
Everyone in the village knew that Xu Ji had an Old Artifact in his possession, a weapon for dealing with Evil Spirits. Who could hope to beat him?
That old fox wants to have his cake and eat it too...
Hu Ma thought in silence. Xu Ji must have offered the Old Shopkeeper something tempting on his return. And the things Hu Ma had given him earlier were valuable enough that the Old Shopkeeper couldn't bear to return them. So he'd racked his brains to come up with this difficult challenge.
But now that things had come to this, what was Hu Ma supposed to do?
There wasn't enough time to ask his Erguotou brother for help.
Besides, Hu Ma knew it was hard to call in favors. His brother had already helped him get rid of the backing Xu Ji had relied on—that was more than enough.
After all, without that help, Hu Ma wouldn't even have had a chance to compete with Xu Ji. A rich young master with connections facing off against a wild kid from a village was like a grown man fighting a child.
If Hu Ma asked for help again, he might not be repaying the favor anymore—he'd be putting himself in his brother's debt.
Now he'd have to think of something himself first.
Only if all else failed would he have to risk owing his brother another