Chapter 36

Around noon, five or six hundred visitors from afar flocked in.

Zhang Jin’ao, the vice leader of the Beggars’ Sect, Xia, the old boxer from the Zhengzhou Liuhemen, led his three sons-in-law, Tie Laolao from the Goddess Peak of the Three Gorges of Sichuan and Hubei, Pan Hou, the leader of the East China Sea Sand Gang, Bai Ke, the two friends from Qujiang, and Lu Xisi, the master of the divine brush, arrived one after another.

Some of these people knew each other, while others had only heard of each other but had never met before. For a time,…