As the tent steward wrote the letter, Lone Wolf—or rather, Wang Chen—was mingling among the bustling crowd.
Two days earlier, he had used bait to wipe out a band of mountain bandits and unearthed a clue for the mission.
That bandit chief, Black-faced Fiend, had even tried to bluff his way through it. But under Wang Chen's Soul-Searching Technique, he confessed everything, including how he had peeped at a village widow bathing in his youth.
Following the clues he had obtained, Wang Chen found the Rogue Cultivator Lone Wolf.
He then forced Lone Wolf to reveal a channel for contacting the bandits, ultimately leading him here.
That white tent from earlier was a fence established by the Xuan Yi bandits at Flowing Horse Market. Besides selling off their plundered goods, it also purchased supplies and cultivation resources.
Because of its importance, the tent steward was a confidant of Profound Meaning Daoist.
Originally, Wang Chen had planned to capture him and force him to reveal the whereabouts of the mission target.
But after careful consideration, he realized that Profound Meaning Daoist could not possibly have stationed this man here without safeguards and contingencies.
Taking him down would be easy, but if he startled the snake in the grass, completing the mission quickly would become difficult.
So Wang Chen decided to lure the snake from its hole.
Disguised as Lone Wolf, he used a Golden Core cave mansion as bait to draw out Profound Meaning Daoist.
To win the tent steward's trust, Wang Chen revealed the Life-Giving Creation Cauldron.
That counted as a heavy lure.
The effect was exceptionally good. Just now, he had seen the greed flickering in the other man's eyes.
There was at least a ninety percent chance that Profound Meaning Daoist would take the bait!
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