Wu Qiong and the sinister old man had exchanged hands, yet both still spared a thread of attention for the inn. When the old man realized that the humble inn harbored hidden dragons and crouching tigers and that it included three individuals with high cleverness, a heavy regret welled up in his heart.
Leaving aside the two women, the honest-looking man who tumbled next to Wei Jinping seemed to have had great luck in escaping with his life, but the old man, despite his age, was extremely sharp.
His real name was Xu Shihua, originally a lowly corpse examiner from a county town, impoverished and struggling. However, while cleaning up the body of a man who had died in the town, he discovered a scroll of the "Qi Nourishing Scripture" inside the stomach of the deceased.
