Chapter 131 – The Task Is Complete, Drawn into the Mass Grave’s Ghost Domain - Part 1
Several days later
The sky was dark and overcast. Outside the north gate of Gemhill County, a sturdy horse trudged at the ground in a fierce wind. Li Yuan sat astride it, wearing a mask beneath his conical hat. Hidden in his sleeve was the Dragon-Fanged Spear.
In the distance, four figures were already waiting.
At their head stood a woman dressed in white, her skin faintly pale. A beaded veil covered the lower half of her face, leaving only her eyes exposed—eyes as clear as autumn waters, filled with a gentle, forlorn beauty.
The other three were also martial wanderers—a muscular man in short fighting robes, a swordsman in a green tunic, and a black-clad figure wearing a straw raincoat and conical hat.
Li Yuan cupped his fist in greeting.
The woman asked, “Are you Mister Wood?”
He rasped, “I am.”
She said, “I’m your employer, Ming Shu. The intermediary said you’re at eighth rank.”
Wasting no words, Li Yuan mustered a thin layer of shadow blood to form a blood veil on his body—the unmistakable hallmark of an eighth rank martial artist that no one could fake. As he displayed his power, he discreetly glanced at the four around him, noting the combat power indicators above their heads.
All of them were eighth rank.
That struck him as odd. Didn’t this young lady of the Mountain Gang know that Zhao Xiantong was sixth rank, and that General Mammoth behind him was at least sixth rank as well? How did she expect to handle them? Poison? Or something else?