Chapter 62 - 61: Qi Yuan’s Visit! Invitation to Enter the Mountain!
With all his strength! With a fierce stir!
Jiang Shu pulled out his dagger, swiftly slashed at the masked Martial Artist’s neck, ensuring that he was beyond salvation.
Only then did he grit his teeth and search the body.
Two hundred silver notes, an iron plaque engraved with the character ’Yao,’ and a worn-out manual on footwork.
Touching the streaks of blood seeping from his back, Jiang Shu took two deep breaths. He didn’t have time to adjust his condition. He picked up the diamonds and the iron cudgel from the ground and, gritting his teeth, rushed back to his courtyard.
The exits of the black market were mostly hidden in the recesses of alleyways. The duration of his battle with the masked Martial Artist had already been quite long. That no one came was purely luck. If he had dallied a bit longer, it wouldn’t have been so easy to extricate himself.
Once back in his courtyard, Jiang Shu finally let down his guard. He hastily bandaged himself up and carefully examined the footwork manual: *Snake Step*.
Based on the movements of a serpent, it emphasized leaping and shifting with few variations and did not have an advantage over long distances.
Beneath the illustrations of the human figure were tiny annotations in different handwriting, continuously added. Some of these small characters had been repeatedly smeared and altered. Clearly, the manual had passed through many hands.
It should be superior to the Tiger Form Three Styles but inferior to the Starving Tiger Devastating Claw.