Shen Yi walked beneath the archway as if no one else existed.
He looked up. The fat man's and thin man's vicious heads hung there, glaringly exposed beneath the blazing sun.
Shen Yi bent his knees and leaped lightly.
He raised a hand and deftly removed the two heads, cradling them against his chest.
With a shake of his other hand, Li Wudang's head fell out of the bundle. Shen Yi spun and kicked the round head.
Like a ball, Li Wudang's head was kicked back atop the archway, hanging in its former place.
Having finished all this,
Shen Yi swept his gaze over the silent bystanders, then carried the two heads away without looking back.
Only after Shen Yi had left
did Xiaoqing Town's constables finally arrive, late as ever.
Among the passersby were no lack of martial wanderers carrying sabers and swords, as well as Blade Catchers. Naturally, they recognized Shen Yi.
The newly risen Qilin prodigy who had been making waves on the Qilin Rankings was also the focus of Xiaoqing Town and its surrounding region these past few days.
Now, it seemed
that in this struggle over the wanted notice,
Shen Yi had emerged victorious in the end.
Outside the town, atop a barren hill, two stone tablets had just been erected. Shen Yi, clad in a battle-damaged azure robe, stood silently before them.
After a long while,
a voice sounded behind him.
"I never thought you would truly be able to kill Li Wudang."
Shen Yi said nothing.
"You avenged them."
"You even retrieved their bodies from the mass grave and buried them on this hill. You have already done everything benevolence and righteousness could demand."
People like you are rarely seen in the martial world these days."
Shen Yi said calmly,
"I do not