While I am still not a huge fan of the artist, the story is improving as it goes, and this one added enough plot threads to make the story more interesting.
The martial arts combat is still drawn in a way that makes the combat a little hard to follow, but the characters get a little more development, especially the criminal that Yongbi had captured at the start of the first volume.
Also, I have noticed that every little detail has something to do with the story. That was driven home when it turned out that the horse's digestive difficulties were a plot point, rather than a humorous digression. The slightly bawdy humor in the first volume was the same way, in retrospect, as Yongbi did things which were slapstick comedy, but also showed his level of skill.