Li San and his gang limped away in defeat. Wenlong did not stop them and let them leave.
They had not been wicked enough to deserve death, and he had never intended to take their lives.
Looking at their bedraggled figures, he saw that they left every bit as wretched as they had been swaggering when they arrived.
With the petty thugs dealt with, Wenlong and Ruan Qianqian continued on, heading south in high spirits.
Their next stop to the south was the even more prosperous Great Han Kingdom. It was said that experts were everywhere there, martial arts flourished, and countless heroes had emerged from its lands.
Several days later, the two left the Great Tang Kingdom without any trouble. Entering the Great Han Kingdom, however, proved difficult. Its border guards refused to let them through, no matter what they said.
When the guards saw the Myriad Crowds Sect token, they did not make trouble for them and were quite polite, but they still would not let them cross.
Seeing this, Wenlong slipped the officer in charge a hundred taels of silver. Only then did the officer beam with delight and let the two enter the Great Han Kingdom.
So money was what they recognized; everything else came second. If money could solve the problem, it was easy enough to handle.
After crossing the border, neither of them knew which country lay next to the south.
They could only first check into an inn in town, then ask someone about their next destination.
They tipped the inn's serving boy, and naturally, once he saw the silver, he became much more willing to talk.
His account matched Wenlong's guess exactly: the southernmost country was the Great Qin Kingdom.
After learning that the Great Qin Kingdom lay farthest south, Wenlong and