Volume Four: Buddha Saves No One, Only I, the Demon, Shall Save Them - Multifunctional Hired Muscle (Part One)

Master Xuqing's bid was close to Master Xusheng's: jewels plus a ninth-tier Buddhist artifact. The two had worked together for years and knew each other well. Master Xuqing could easily guess Master Xusheng's bottom line. Luo Qian was displeased. He had hoped to use their rivalry to drive the price higher and higher, but now there was no way to achieve that glorious, noble goal.

Luo Qian rubbed his chin. It seemed time to find someone to put in a sham bid.

The trouble was, though he had the idea, he knew very few people in the Buddha Realm. As he left Master Xuqing's temple, a delicate-looking Novice Monk darted out from a corner and could not resist glancing back at him. Something stirred in Luo Qian's mind. He hurried after her and called, "Little master, please wait." Instead, the Novice Monk ran faster. She even used some technique that sent wind whistling beneath her feet, putting several hundred meters between them in moments.

Luo Qian shook his head. Why did everyone watching someone in secret run for their life the moment they were spotted?

That only made him determined to catch the Novice Monk. She raced ahead, and he pursued her. With Six Howls at his disposal, he refused to believe he could not outrun one Novice Monk. What he had not expected was her stamina. The chase carried them a hundred li away in no time. Temple after temple flashed by beneath them before she veered into a mountain. Luo Qian stepped after her. A fierce gust struck him head-on, and he instinctively tucked his neck and ducked. Just then, an iron-hard leg swept silently toward his lower body.

Thud! Luo Qian went tumbling, rolled twice across the ground, and struck a boulder. A somewhat mischievous voice reached