The three young men in the tavern were all clearly extraordinary. Once everyone else had left, they exchanged glances, a sharp gleam flashing through each of their eyes.
The young man dressed in Taoist robes took the initiative to rise and said with a cheerful smile, "Meeting is fate, gentlemen. Why don't we sit together and share a few drinks?"
The white-robed swordsman and the young man in black martial attire both nodded and walked over to the Taoist-robed young man's table.
"Shopkeeper, bring two more sets of bowls and chopsticks."
The Taoist-robed man called out, then cupped his hands toward the two of them. "I am Liu Gongxuan, Daoist title Azure Feather. I have only recently entered the Jianghu, so I hope you will offer me your guidance."
Upon hearing that name, the expressions of the other two changed slightly in surprise, though they quickly suppressed it.
The white-robed young man holding a sword smiled. "Azure Feather Adept Liu Gongxuan, eighteenth on the Human Ranking, acting headmaster of the Zaohua Taoist School, and personal disciple of Nine Splendors Daoist Lord Zhang Boduan—if someone like you still needs guidance, wouldn't everyone below eighteenth place on the Human Ranking be useless?"
Liu Gongxuan smiled. "If I am not mistaken, this brother must be a disciple of Famous Sword Villa?"
The man in white nodded. "Famous Sword Villa, He Feng."
Liu Gongxuan smiled warmly. "Twentieth on the Human Ranking, the 'Flowing Cloud Little Sword' He Feng, is no worse than I am. If I had not entered the Jianghu a few years before Brother He, I likely would not have reached eighteenth place."
Young men were said to be hot-blooded, and rankings on the Jianghu's Human Ranking changed more quickly than any other. Sometimes, two martial artists who had never even met