Martial Arts Escort System: I Got A Maxed Level Divine Technique From The Beginning - Chapter 958 - Capítulo 958: 387: Disciples of the Starshatter Sect
Capítulo 958: Chapter 387: Disciples of the Starshatter Sect
The light of the torch dispersed the silence of the alley.
The corpse lay right in the middle of the alley, from the back, it appeared to be a rather burly middle-aged man.
The spectators gathered around, looking at each other.
In the middle of the night, such an incident suddenly occurred, making people somewhat unsettled.
Someone mustered up the courage to try flipping the corpse over.
To see whose unfortunate soul it was.
But as soon as he reached out his hand, he heard a sharp shout:
“Stop!!”
The person reaching out was startled and quickly turned around, only to see three people dressed distinctly from the island’s residents parted the crowd and stepped forward.
The leader was a middle-aged man, followed by a young man and a young woman.
It was the young man among them who had just spoken.
As soon as the crowd saw them, they immediately breathed a sigh of relief.
Someone in the crowd muttered:
“Alright, alright, the masters from the Shattered Star Sect have arrived.”
“A sudden death in the middle of the night, even they were alerted.”
“Could it be those Jianghu experts fighting here?”
“Didn’t hear any sounds of fighting.”
“You think it’s Zhou Laosan next door fighting with someone? That would awaken the dead from their graves.
“I heard real Jianghu experts can kill without a sound.”
“You talk like you’ve seen it.”
Among the crowd, Su Mo brought Yang Xiaoyun, along with the curious Wei Ziyi, and Little Situ naturally arrived as well.
Beside them was Yu Shengnan, who dared not sleep alone in the inn.
Hearing their discussion, Su Mo realized that on Gupiao Island, there were also people from the Shattered Star Sect guarding the place.
Nanhai’s powers were not as tight-knit as Donghuang’s.
The major powers loosely enveloped the entire Nanhai.
The minor powers mostly belonged to the three major ones, yet they were chaotic and loosely organized.
Due to considerable distances between islands, in this era of complicated and difficult communication, even the connections within the same power were not as close as imagined.
The Shattered Star Sect, among them, was within the realm of the Nanhai Alliance.
They were dependent on each other rather than subordinate.
The islands near Shattered Star Bay were all within the jurisdiction of the Shattered Star Sect.
It was just that Gupiao Island was not well-known; to have someone guarding it was a bit surprising to Su Mo.
As these thoughts ran through his mind, he saw the three people had already arrived in front.
The middle-aged man looked down for a bit and nodded to the young man beside him.
The young man said nothing, took out a pair of gold-threaded gloves from his coat, put them on, and then turned the corpse over.
The spectators were quite curious and craned their necks to look.
But upon seeing it, chills went down their spines.
The deceased was indeed a middle-aged man, burly and robust, with thick calluses on both hands, evidence of intensive practice.
At this moment, his calloused hands were tightly clutching his own throat.
His face was twisted with a ferocious expression.
His wide-open eyes were filled with shock and anger.
His face was black and blue, with a faint indescribable odor emanating from his mouth and nose.
The spectators, upon smelling this odor, felt nauseous and dizzy, some even feeling faint.
“Is it him?”
The middle-aged man’s eyes slightly narrowed, waving his hand:
“Spread out a bit, don’t get too close.
“This person died of poisoning, and the corpse still contains potent poison; if you get too close, you might be infected by it.”
“What?”
“Poisoned!”
“No wonder his face is so dark!”
The spectators, hearing this, quickly backed away.
Afraid of being contaminated by this potent poison themselves.
The person who had just reached out to move the corpse turned deathly pale, feeling as if he had just brushed past death’s door.
The middle-aged man looked at the young man and woman beside him:
“Let’s test you, do you know who this person is?”
The two young people looked at each other, the young woman rolled her eyes and said with a smile:
“Uncle Master, his bones are robust, his hands full of calluses.
“Clearly, he practices fierce external martial arts.
“The calluses are mainly on the inner palm, with marks on the edge of the hand.
“This indicates his hand technique stands out.
“For you, Uncle Master, to recognize him, also shows he has some fame…”
As she said this, she couldn’t help but glance at the young man beside her, who was listening carefully and immediately nodded vigorously upon catching the young woman’s glance:
“Junior sister is right!”
“…”
The young woman gritted her teeth in anger, glaring at the young man.
The young man, seeing this, was instead captivated, finding his junior sister beautiful no matter how he looked at her.
The beauty’s slight anger only added to her allure.
Forgetting the time and place.
The middle-aged man and the young woman both showed a dark expression, then the young woman sighed and said:
“Uncle Master, isn’t this the famous Ling Yuanke known for his ‘Qianyuan Palm’?”
“Yes, that’s him.”
The middle-aged man nodded: “This person’s Qianyuan Palm is fiercely powerful, twenty years of refined skill, yet unexpectedly, he ended up on Gupiao Island, dying here in silence.
“Let’s test you again, can you recognize what poison he was subjected to?”
They were oblivious to their surroundings, carrying out their examination amidst the crowd.
Su Mo and the others listened on the side, appearing thoughtful.
They had heard of the name Ling Yuanke.
Rather than the two disciples of the Canglan Divine Blade revealing it, they had heard it not long ago while resupplying on an island, from others’ idle talk.
So they knew, this was a ranger of the seas.
