[What Are You Laughing At?]

Over the next two days, the Mutated Wild Boar Shen Xiu had brought back was completely devoured by Golden Cicada.

Golden Cicada's satiety had risen to 36.1%, an increase of more than ten percent.

Looking at the remaining boar skeleton, which seemed to carry a faint jade-green sheen, Shen Xiu planned to take it to a restaurant and have a look.

Following the principle of making use of waste, he wanted to see whether anyone needed it and whether he could trade it for a little silver.

Then, as he left the martial arts hall and headed for a nearby restaurant, he ran into Jian Shuhao.

The moment Jian Shuhao saw Shen Xiu, he sneakily pulled him aside, then drew an emerald-green jade pendant from his robes and handed it to him with a nervous air.

"Young Brother Shen, I was just looking for you. This is for you."

"What is this?"

Shen Xiu looked at him in confusion.

"Do you know about Chen Mo, the Chen Family's eldest young master, going missing?"

Shen Xiu nodded.

Jian Shuhao continued, "I picked up this jade pendant from the upper reaches of the Lishui River. Hurry and hand it over to the martial arts hall!"

Jian Shuhao said it with a grin, seemingly utterly unaware of the pendant's value.

"Did you know the Chen Family offered a reward before?"

"Of course. It's worth a thousand taels of silver, but I think Young Brother Shen needs it more."

Jian Shuhao smiled, wholly unconcerned.

The next moment, he stuffed the jade pendant directly into Shen Xiu's hand. Without waiting for his response, he headed toward the martial arts hall, walking into the morning sun.

"Oh, and my father doesn't stop me from practicing martial arts anymore!"

Jian Shuhao suddenly remembered something. Turning back, he shouted to Shen Xiu with a smile.

His smile shone brilliantly in the sunlight.

It was as though even the jade pendant worth a thousand taels of silver could not compare to the joy this news brought him.

Seeing the youth's expression, Shen Xiu could not help but laugh. Then he continued toward the restaurant.

After walking some distance.

As he passed through Willow Leaf Alley, Shen Xiu took more than ten steps before suddenly stopping. He abruptly turned around and looked behind him.

Seeing no one there, Shen Xiu paid it no mind and continued onward.

At that moment, more than ten paces behind him, a fat man and a thin man in blue robes pressed themselves close against the corner of a wall.

"That brat's far too sharp. We nearly got discovered."

The fat man in blue robes whispered, still shaken.

"Could it be that we've already been discovered?"

The thin man in blue robes glanced at Shen Xiu, who had vanished around the corner ahead, then looked at the fat man.

The fat man patted his chest. "Impossible! That brat probably just got the Thousand Gold Jade Pendant and is naturally on edge for the moment. But speaking of which, what was up with that other brat? How could he dare casually give away something so valuable?"

"Could he have merely wanted him to collect the reward?"

"Mm, that's possible." The fat man nodded with certainty.

"But can the two of us take him down? I still think it'd be best to tail him and report it to the gang. If we can't beat him, we'll really be in deep trouble."

As the thin man in blue robes trailed the youth ahead from afar, he uneasily spoke to the fat man beside him.

Who would have thought that, while tiptoeing along, the fat man in blue robes would pull a slip of paper covered in black writing from his robes?

He chuckled. "Do you know what this is? It's the fortune reading that Old Blind Man by the bridge gave me. Your Brother Kun is destined for a windfall from heaven today, hehe..."

The thin man in blue robes looked and saw eight characters written on the small slip of paper. He recognized the first few characters, "windfall from heaven," and immediately gained a little confidence in their plan.

He knew that blind old fortune-teller too. He had collected protection money from him several times. It was said that the old man's divinations were quite accurate.

Let's do it!

The thin man in blue robes thought to himself, but halfway through following, he lost his nerve.

"My eyelid keeps twitching. I'd better not go."

The fat man in blue robes glanced at him disdainfully. "Coward. If you won't go, I will. Do you know that your Brother Kun is fated to make a huge fortune today? I said so!"

With that, he continued trailing from afar, no longer caring about the uneasy thin man behind him.

The thin man in blue robes stood there blankly for a while. After considering it, he decided to return to the Azure Dragon Gang.

This was an important matter. He felt it would be better to be cautious.

As the fat man in blue robes gave chase, his mood grew increasingly jubilant. It was good that coward had left. Once he got the jade pendant, that enormous merit would belong entirely to him.

He had spent half his life down on his luck, doing nothing but errands for the gang. The chance to turn his life around left him wild with joy.

He could already imagine the gang leader's praise, his fellow disciples' admiration, and the women of Chunxiang Tower becoming obsequious toward him.

The more he thought about it, the more he could not help covering his mouth and snickering.

"Kukuku..."

"Kukuku..."

"What are you laughing at?"

A voice suddenly came from behind him.

"I'm laughing... huh?"

The fat man in blue robes froze. In that instant, his back went numb and cold sweat burst out all over him.

In a single flash!

He made countless choices and thought of countless methods. In the end, he obeyed his body's instinct, flipped out a dagger hidden in his sleeve, and stabbed backward at the person behind him with the speed of lightning, too swift to cover one's ears!

It was swift and vicious!

The fat man in blue robes' face turned ferocious. "Die for me!"

The moment the words left his mouth, he felt an explosive, savage aura attack from behind.

Shen Xiu had made his move.

With the strength of the First Realm Body Tempering Middle Stage, coupled with Charging Fist, the killing move of the Dragon Subduing Tiger Taming Art, he struck the former's chest with extreme brutality!

Crack!

The fat man in blue robes heard the sound of bones breaking. Just as he felt the excruciating pain, his entire body was sent flying as if struck by a noble's towering carriage!

With a heavy crash, the fat man in blue robes, his chest caved in, slammed into the corner of a wall. His dagger flew away, and terror filled his face!

This was a Martial Artist who had entered a realm!

Dark clouds drifted overhead, and the wall's shadow fell across Shen Xiu's cold face. The still-breathing fat man in blue robes' pupils contracted as despair rose in his heart.

He roared furiously in his heart!

"It wasn't a windfall from heaven! A windfall from heaven?! What kind of windfall from heaven is this?!"

Shen Xiu slowly approached.

The fat man in blue robes wiped blood from the corner of his mouth and said miserably, "Brother... if I say I didn't mean it, would you believe me?"

"I believe you..." Shen Xiu crouched down.

The fat man in blue robes froze, then rejoiced speechlessly. "Brother... I'm sorry—"

"It's fine. No problem!"

Shen Xiu smiled and threw a punch!

The fat man in blue robes froze.

The fist instantly shattered his heart meridians. His breastbone broke apart entirely and collapsed inward.

The fat man in blue robes only had time to make an incredulous expression before his eyes bulged wide. He died unwillingly in an instant.

The lifeless fat man in blue robes quietly fell over, shaking loose a white slip of paper. Written on it were the words: windfall from heaven, calamity of death.

Shen Xiu picked up the slip and examined it, somewhat puzzled.

This seemed to be that fellow's fortune reading, and by its meaning, it was even the worst possible lot.

His fortune reading had been the worst possible lot, yet this fellow had still been so fierce. Shen Xiu was utterly baffled. Could it be that this fellow could not read?

He looked at the unfamiliar fat man on the ground, then at the eight-character fortune reading in his hand. For a moment, he truly did not know what to say...