He would not rest until his words shocked everyone.
Those words immediately drew everyone's attention. Both the Mara Dynasty's prisoners and officers and the cultivators led by Feng Shande cast astonished looks his way.
"You know him?"
Feng Shande even frowned as he questioned the man.
"Ah, we met once."
As the man spoke, he gave Ning Que a meaningful smile.
Ning Que fell silent.
He was surprised, yet it was also within his expectations.
On the day he broke out of Qingzhou City, he had led Qi Shanhe, Yin Jiuyou, and a hundred or so skilled fighters from the Qingzhou Branch against almost the entire city's underworld.
The experts of the Escort Guild and the Cave of No Worries had poured out in full force, yet none could match Ning Que and his men.
But along the way, they had encountered a traveler of unfathomable strength who attacked them.
At first, Ning Que had thought he was an expert secretly hired by the Provincial Governor of Qingzhou, but that turned out not to be the case.
He was merely an interloper who had witnessed the clash.
Nor had he intended to take Ning Que's life. He had simply seen someone so young yet so powerful, and his fighting spirit had been stirred.
Their exchange had stopped short of causing serious harm.
Yet through that chance encounter, Ning Que's second Background Editing possibility had been triggered: the Fallen Star Pavilion.
The man had also left him with one remark: "We'll meet again..."
Then he had left Qingzhou City.
Ning Que had never expected their next meeting to be in the Skeleton Desert.
Feng Shande and the others looked even more surprised, their gazes growing darker.
One was a prisoner, while the other was a cultivator.
Two people who should have