As the first crossbow bolt pierced the sky, red fireworks suddenly rose above the horizon. Three Fuchuan ships burst through the dense fog, and the bronze water-repelling beasts at their bows spewed sulfurous flames.
Su Yan caught sight of the emblem of the Pu Merchant Group on the leading sail; the thirty-six golden threads aligned perfectly with the cracks in the Champa shell coins he had gifted to Pu Shougeng.
A man in black leapt from the deck, swinging a chain-dart that hooked firmly onto the old man’s jade tablet. "I, the nineteenth-ranked fleet leader of the Quanzhou Pu clan, have come to purge the house!"
Chapter 76