Chapter 5: No Next Time!
“Never knew there were this many people in the city,” Li Yao said, gesturing at the long line. “Ain’t no way that guy is under twenty-one. Wait, hold the—that’s the swindler Old Dog Black! He’s middle-aged—”
“You dare deceive me so blatantly?” the cultivator said to the swindler.
“My lord—” Old Dog Black grinned, rubbing his hands together “—bein’ an immortal’s been a long dream of—”
The cultivator slashed out with his palm, and Old Dog Black’s head flew into the sky, accompanied by terrified screams of fear. The girl next in line to Old Dog Black fainted.
“To even attempt to deceive me is to ask for death. You, mortal, clean up the mess.”
A guard dragged Old Dog Black’s body away. Before a minute had even passed, the line shrank by a third.
“Serves him right,” Li Yao cackled. “That guy had no mercy. Whether woman or children, he would—”
Li Yao’s voice droned into the background. He kept talking even when someone from the crowd threw him a letter tied to a rock.
Why is this brat being so friendly suddenly? Yu Han’s head grew groggier, but he forced himself awake. This was nothing, just a little pain. What was it compared to all those all-nighters doing his Ph.D.?