Dragon Spring City.
Inside Laifu Restaurant.
Bai Yu, a Yang Refining expert who had pursued Blind Man all the way here on the Second Prince's orders, sat upright beside a window.
He wore white robes and a white half-mask, his bearing otherworldly.
Bai Yu lifted his wine cup, tipped his head back, and drained it!
Yet he sighed softly inside.
He felt weary to his very core.
He had searched every corner of Dragon Spring City for the blind prodigy the Second Prince had mentioned, but found no trace of him.
There were plenty of blind men, and a few prodigies, too.
But no one who combined those two qualities.
Just as he was brooding over this.
A storyteller's voice suddenly rang out in the restaurant. "Then the prodigy Li Qiming turned back the raging tide, battling Meng Hailong, the martial world's foremost expert, for three days and three nights!"
"Remember, Meng Hailong was already a Spirit Refining expert ten years ago. Now that he sits atop the Wind and Cloud Ranking, surely he must have reached Yang Refining!"
The storyteller was still speaking.
Suddenly.
A martial traveler challenged him. "What bullshit! Li Qiming certainly has made a name for himself lately, but how could he possibly compare to Meng Hailong?"
"Exactly! There's no comparison whatsoever!"
"Say, storyteller, do you even understand martial arts? A single realm between martial artists puts them a hundred and eight thousand miles apart!"
"Besides, Li Qiming is at most an Aperture Refining martial artist. How could he fight the greatest expert under heaven?!"
"Three days and three nights? You're just making things up!"
"I've heard nonsense before, but never anything this outrageous!"
"Do you think we're three-year-olds?!"
Everyone voiced their displeasure.
Seated in the corner, Bai Yu was also drawn in by the familiar