Tie Kuangren ignored Shangguan Shenhao. He glanced back at Chu Xisheng, then clapped him hard on his uninjured left shoulder, offering a quiet word of praise. "What a man! Did you kill all hundred-odd people around here? Tsk, tsk, blood dyed the whole street red! On my way here, I thought I wouldn't see you alive. Never expected you to hold out until Shangguan Shenhao had to attack you himself. Over three hundred mounted bandits from White Cloud Stronghold, and all those seventh-rank Household Guards of the Shangguan Clan, and none of them could do a thing to you."
The clap made Chu Xisheng shudder all over with searing pain, yet his expression did not change. With a solemn look, he cupped his fist toward Tie Kuangren. "Thank you for coming to my aid, Banner Chief Tie. I cannot thank you enough!"
This was truly a life-saving debt.
Had Tie Kuangren arrived even a little later today, his soul would have returned to the Nine Springs.
Lu Luanli relaxed as well, her figure drifting down onto a corner of the eaves.
Then blood flowed from her mouth and nose, refusing to stop.
This was the price of using the Secret Art. All her internal organs had suffered its backlash.
Lu Luanli hurriedly swallowed medicinal pills while regulating the energy channels inside her.
Just then, her expression shifted again. Her extraordinary gift of sight caught someone on the distant wharf.
-it was a girl dressed in black robes.
Chu Yunyun?
Lu Luanli was a little surprised. Why was little sister Chu here?
And it was already the dead of night. There were no ferries left on the river, so how had she crossed?
Lu Luanli could spare no more attention for that. Once she stopped the bleeding from her mouth and