The Heavenly Maidens Descend-Why Was the Young Hero Even More Excited?

"Celestial maidens?" Feng Ling'er said in surprise.

At that moment, Duan Yun and the Murong Brothers came in as well.

The moment they heard there were celestial maidens—beauties—the Murong Brothers immediately perked up and said excitedly, "Where are the pretty girls?"

Chunhua then began recounting the matter of the celestial maidens in Qing Prefecture.

The celestial maidens Duan Yun and the others knew of were either immortals depicted in flying murals, or a type of hidden weapon called "Celestial Maidens Scattering Flowers."

But the celestial maidens Chunhua spoke of were something else entirely.

Two months ago, Qing Prefecture had somehow become littered with many strange jade eggs.

These jade eggs were highly peculiar. They looked like some kind of jade, yet also like some kind of metal.

Many believed they were precious treasures akin to "insect jade," and rushed to take them home.

Several large-scale bloody clashes erupted in Qing Prefecture over these jade eggs, leaving hundreds dead and wounded.

One had to know that unlike great heroes such as Duan Yun and the others, who wiped out entire families at the drop of a hat and slaughtered households whenever the mood struck them, even martial artists with a little standing in the jianghu generally preferred trading insults and competing in spirit. Fighting was secondary.

When traveling the world, killing and toying with ordinary people together was commonplace. Fighting one another to the death was something reserved for times of absolute necessity.

It could be said that jianghu folk enjoyed committing all manner of evil, but they still had their limits.

Yet this time, Qing Prefecture's jianghu folk had lost all restraint over these jade eggs. Hundreds, perhaps nearly a thousand, had been killed or injured, and blood flowed into rivers.

That showed just how highly they valued these jade