Fortune

Before anyone here could react, a long howl rose from afar and drew nearer. A figure had already raced here from the distance.

The man was incredibly fast, Battle Qi gleaming around him. At first, he had been several miles away, yet in no time at all, just as everyone could hear the sharp crack of his clothes slicing through the air, his figure appeared in the camp where Zhang Tie and the others were.

"What happened? Who fired the Cloud-Piercing Arrow?"

No sooner had the words left his mouth than, with a boom, a man crashed down like a cannonball where Zhang Tie and the others stood, kicking up a cloud of dust.

Zhang Tie clicked his tongue inwardly. He had guessed there would be experts in Golden Roc Bank's expedition, but only now, face-to-face, did he realize that their experts seemed far more formidable than he had imagined. At the very least, that man's movement technique and speed just now had exceeded one hundred meters per second—far beyond Zhang Tie. Even with the Swift Movement Technique, he could not reach such speed.

The man standing before them was a bald, powerfully built Hua Clan man in his forties. As he spoke, his gaze instantly locked onto the person who had fired the Cloud-Piercing Arrow, radiating immense pressure.

"Just now, I accepted a bank's safekeeping commission here..."

The bald man's expression changed the moment he heard that, as if he were about to fly into a rage...

"Someone found jade underground here—more than a thousand pieces in total!"

That latter half of the sentence instantly doused the bald man's anger. A strange expression appeared on his face as he repeated solemnly, "More than a thousand pieces?"

"Yes, more than a thousand!" Since he had not personally seen the items