“But, how...!” Cai Kechang unknowingly gritted his teeth at the wretched sight before his eyes. “Just what... happened to him?!”

The 'sight' was none other than Jin Bao. He was supposed to be carrying out the commission of 'investigating' Kang Jin-Ho in South Korea, but he suddenly became unreachable for some reason. And it turned out that he was already back in China.

So, Cai Kechang wanted to know why Jin Bao and his partner—Wei Fong—chose to abandon their mission. However, he couldn't ask anything.

How could he ask someone who came back home as an invalid—a mental patient? Jin Bao's eyes were glassy, unfocused. Drool trickled down from the corner of his mouth with no sign of stopping any time soon. This sight was already enough for Cai Kechang to guess what had gone down in Korea.

'Still, what exactly happened?'

It didn't take a genius to figure out that Jin Bao had lost to Kang Jin-Ho. What Cai Kechang couldn't understand was just how bad the beatdown had to be for Jin Bao to end up in this wretched state.

Jin Bao was quite well-known in the world of shadows as a capable professional. A professional who dealt with not ordinary, powerless targets, but with his fellow martial artists. A man specializing in making cultivators disappear, so to speak.

Unsurprisingly, he had witnessed many unsavory things and experienced just as many dangers. The concept of 'knowing all the tricks in the book' would surely be a fitting description of Jin Bao.

His death during a commission would have been far...