Volume One: Days in the Shantytown - A Roaring Trade (Part One)

"Luo!" Du Lengning cried out in anguish. Zhao Xihe's shockwave had flung him aside. With his abilities, he was no match for one of the Immortal Realm's Nine Great Beast Cultivators. Forget saving Luo Qian—he could barely protect himself.

His cry broke off halfway. A mass of white light burst from Luo Qian's body in the sky and shot toward Toad Mountain like a meteor. Du Lengning suddenly remembered what had happened at Tianxia Source. He snatched Luo Qian's syringe from the ground. No longer caring whether Zhao Xihe was a Heaven Ranking expert, he wiped away his tears and pointed at Zhao's nose, his face smeared with dirt. "Remember this. If anything really happens to Luo, I'll kill you to avenge him, whether it takes a hundred years, a thousand, or ten thousand! This won't end until one of us is dead!" With that, he leaped into the sky and headed for Toad Mountain with the Drifting Duckweed Step.

Zhao Xihe was stunned too. He had acted on impulse. As one of the Nine Great Experts of the Heaven Ranking, even if he meant to kill someone, he would never normally strike from behind like that. Nor had he expected Luo Qian to be so fragile: the blow had barely landed before Luo died. That flash of white light at the end, though, was decidedly strange.

Zhao Xihe looked at Du Bo'an. "How could he have fallen so easily?" Du Bo'an sighed and shook his head. "That child had it hard. He was a Tribulation Immortal..." "What?" Zhao Xihe stared blankly at his hands. "I, Zhao Xihe, a Heaven Ranking expert, struck down a Tribulation Immortal from behind? I... I..." A crushing sense of guilt welled up in him. He tipped back his head and sighed. This might be