In the distance, beside the train.
Tie Kun and the tattooed bald brute, who had been fighting moments ago, tacitly stopped the instant the Shadow Puppet Giant Spirit God appeared and turned to look toward the dirt slope.
Watching that ten-foot-tall giant of black mist dispatch the Twin Fiends of Plum Mountain within a few breaths, shock appeared on both their faces.
Others might not know the Twin Fiends of Plum Mountain's true capabilities, but the bald brute had looked into them.
Before taking this job, the middleman had specifically shown him a dossier recording the bloody crimes the Twin Fiends of Plum Mountain had committed over the years.
Seventy-two people in a Miao village in western Hunan had been wiped out overnight...
Forty-three people in an escort agency in southern Hubei—from the proprietor to the clerks, including the escort masters' families—had all been hung in the courtyard and left to dry...
That village in northern Jiangxi had suffered even worse. Forty-seven lives, young and old alike—not a single one spared...
Those two had committed evil for over a decade. If they hadn't claimed eight hundred lives, they had claimed at least five hundred.
The Inspection Bureau had encircled and suppressed them three times, yet the pair had escaped every time.
That was why he had felt fairly confident when taking this job. With those two ruthless men holding the line, even if the other side had Copper Skin Realm guards, they would only last a little longer.
Yet he had never expected those two masters of the unorthodox path to fail to survive even a second move against the black-mist giant, crushed to death in the blink of an eye.
"...Why the hell am I still fighting?"
Cold sweat instantly soaked the bald brute's back. Forgetting all about martial