Chapter 14: Twelve Stages of the Six Yang Saber Art!
Everyone watched as Wang Chongshan reached out and carefully felt around the bearded merchant’s face. In the next moment, he ripped off a human-skin mask, revealing a vicious, feral face beneath.
It was none other than Liang Qi, the murderous bandit who had escaped from Wei City's prison just days ago!
A wave of shocked gasps rippled through the officers present; many of them had seen Liang Qi before, or at the very least, had seen his wanted poster. This was the bloodthirsty criminal currently being hunted across the entire city by the Wei City yamen. They knew his face all too well!
But, none of them had ever imagined that Liang Qi had been hiding right here in the bustling Taiping Inn this entire time.
“We searched high and low to no avail, only to find him when we weren’t even looking!” Wang Chongshan exclaimed joyfully.
This savage bandit had escaped the heavily guarded prison of Wei City without anyone noticing. Then, disguised as a traveling merchant, he had gone into hiding at the Taiping Inn. In the end, not only had his vile beast-transformation spell been exposed by Daoist Master Yanchu, and the missing women rescued, even he himself had been crippled by Daoist Master Yanchu!
Wang Chongshan felt an indescribable wave of relief wash over him. The burden that had been weighing on him for days was now completely gone. And it had been done without a single soldier lost, without a single drop of blood shed.
“Daoist Master Yanchu, you’ve done me a tremendous favor! This man is the escaped bandit Liang Qi!” Wang Chongshan said excitedly.
“What!? That vicious merchant was actually bandit Liang Qi in disguise?!”
“So it was Liang Qi, that explains his utter lack of conscience!”
“Daoist Master Yanchu is incredible! Liang Qi was said to be highly skilled and utterly ruthless, and yet against Daoist Master Yanchu, he couldn’t even put up a fight!”