I Just Couldn't Stand It

Yang Ling looked visibly startled when he saw Zhu Xiu. "Lord Zhu, you're at Golden Lion Ridge too? How come I didn't see you at the Cicada-Holding Directorate?"

Eunuch Chen was pleasantly surprised. He had been uneasy the whole way here.

After all, a fourth-rank official of the Divine Guard Bureau had died.

Now that a Fourth-Grade Grandmaster from the Myriad Affairs Bureau was here, he felt much more at ease.

Zhu Xiu said, "I only just arrived at Golden Lion Ridge myself. Zhu Qing, the leader of the Precious Medicine Gang, is a distant cousin of mine, so I came to catch up with him first."

Yang Ling was a little surprised. His gaze fell on the gang leader.

Two of the man's attributes had already surpassed a thousand. He cultivated three Second-Rate Internal Skills, all of them at the Transcendent Sainthood stage.

His foundation could not compare to Shi Haixuan's, but his cultivation was on the same level: Middle Fourth Grade.

Three internal skills. His control over his strength must have reached Subtle Control.

As Yang Ling sized up Zhu Qing, the Precious Medicine Gang's senior members cautiously studied him in turn.

The news they had just heard was simply too shocking.

Not only had he just killed Xian Donglai, a Lower Fourth-Grade Grandmaster of the Divine Guard Bureau,

he had even wiped out the Mingwang Group and killed its leader, Shi Tianhu!

Taken together, those two feats sounded like a fantasy.

"Cousin, what I'm about to say should stay between the few of us," Zhu Xiu said suddenly.

Zhu Qing nodded gravely and signaled to his subordinates.

The Precious Medicine Gang's senior members rose and filed out.

"Father, should I leave too?" the brocade-clad young man asked awkwardly.

"You're family. You can listen."

Zhu Qing nodded casually.