The man surnamed Cui sat in the teahouse all morning. It was not until afternoon that he patted his backside and leisurely strolled out of the teahouse...
Though he was not in the Righteous Path Tower, not a single word of the discussions and exchanges among its people escaped the Cui man's ears.
This man surnamed Cui was, of course, Zhang Tie.
The renewed eruption of the Illusory Body Divine Bloodline had completely transformed Zhang Tie into someone utterly unlike his former self. Even if he stood before the Knights who had pursued him that night, they probably would not recognize him as Zhang Tie—Zhang Mushen.
The identity and appearance of this man were not something Zhang Tie had made up himself. Rather, when he had killed Toxic Wolf Zhu Liang on an island in the outer seas of Qiong Province, he had used the soul-reading secret art from the Soul-Searching Forbidden Severance Method to "read" one of Zhu Liang's incarnations from his past memories.
Toxic Wolf Zhu Liang's strength might have been beneath Zhang Tie's notice, but he was highly skilled in disguise and face-changing, and was exceptionally cunning. Throughout Yong Province of Great Xia, he possessed numerous identities and appearances. That was precisely why he had remained at large on the Office of the Chief Justice's wanted list for so many years. This time, had he not encountered Li Butian, a bounty constable whose tracking arts were unrivaled in an entire province, while he was out committing one of his flower-plucking crimes, Toxic Wolf Zhu Liang might well have continued roaming free for years to come.
This Cui man's identity was one Toxic Wolf Zhu Liang had painstakingly cultivated in Yong Province through the strategy of a cunning rabbit with three burrows. Whenever he was not committing crimes