"What?!"
"He's Qu Bushi! Sunken Sword Dock's tenth chief?!"
"Impossible! What would he be doing here?!"
Cries of alarm rose one after another, horror written across every face.
Sunken Sword Dock's name carried far too much weight.
Especially for the Ji Family.
Ji Guannan's death remained vivid in their memories, like a wound that had yet to heal.
The sudden mention of Qu Bushi's name sent violent tremors through the Ji sisters.
Qu Bushi, however, paid no attention whatsoever to the trembling passengers in the carriage.
He stared at Shen Xiuhan in surprise, an intrigued smile curling his lips.
"Boy, I'm curious. How did you discover me underwater?"
Meeting his oppressive gaze, Shen Xiuhan's expression remained cold.
"Go ask those three pieces of trash in the underworld. They told me."
Qu Bushi's smile froze.
"You... killed them?"
"What else?"
Qu Bushi's face darkened slightly. Killing intent seeped into his eyes, so cold it seemed capable of forming ice.
"You're courting death!"
The bluestone beneath his feet exploded into flying fragments!
Like a savage bear bursting from its cage, he lunged at Shen Xiuhan, wreathed in blood energy that could topple mountains and overturn seas!
His opening move was a supreme art mastered to major attainment.
Star-Plucking Hand!
Martial arts were divided into four grades: lower, middle, upper, and supreme.
Lower-grade arts could take a practitioner to bright force, middle-grade arts to hidden force, and upper-grade arts to transformation force.
Supreme arts, meanwhile, were cultivation methods and martial techniques that could reach gang force.
This Star-Plucking Hand originated from the Star-Seizing Moon-Grasping Compendium, the sect-guarding divine art of the Star-Picking Sect, one of the prefectural capital's four great powers.
Duan Xiao had later obtained it through a chance encounter, then passed it on to Qu Bushi.
Its moves were vicious and