Chapter 57: Martial Contest for a Betrothal
Tie Dan galloped wildly on his horse, not knowing how long he had gone. Estimating that no one was pursuing him, he leapt off the horse, and with a backhand slash, cut off the other ear of the valuable horse, letting it continue to scream and rush forward. He then darted into the alleys, hiding away, slowly returning a breath of Qi.
That was close.
A Martial Cultivator at the Nascent Soul Realm is indeed formidable.
Though Martial Cultivators thrive in their youth, and once their Outer Pill cannot sustain them, their essence wanes and Qi shortens; with age, their bodies deteriorate, and their skills drastically decline.
Yet that old man named Wei could still unleash such combat strength. Even with the sharpness of Qingshuang, it only scratched the skin and couldn’t sever his hand bones. A rare master indeed. Probably if the old man were ten years younger, he could have smashed him into pieces with one punch?
But fortunately, an old man is still an old man, not so nimble, and his toes weren’t refined to be like steel; otherwise, he would have shattered the horse to pieces in a sprinting burst, leaving no escape except awaiting death.
Wiping the blood and sweat off his face with his Daoist robe, Tie Dan quickly carried his sword, swiftly reaching the city’s inner river, where he jumped directly into the river and manipulated the water out of the city. For now, he would avoid the outside to see how things played out. When the market opened and crowds gathered in a few days, he’d chance returning to the city.
Also, what bad luck it was; wherever he went, he’d run into that princely heir nonsense again, being chased by a pack of eagle dogs. But he couldn’t go straight back to the mountain because the sect’s expenses hadn’t been exchanged, the reward for the Immortal Thief hadn’t been claimed... Oh right, the person he promised to kill hadn’t been killed yet.
As for that shopkeeper of Treasure Pavilion, he was a treasure himself, asking Tie Dan to kill someone to write off twenty coins, yet couldn’t say who that person was, or where they lived.
He only said that in a few days, there would be an assembly, where the city would host an auction, at which point the target might appear at the venue. Therefore he gave Tie Dan an invitation, telling him to attend, and if the shopkeeper found the enemy, he would notify Tie Dan to take action, so he must stay until that time.