"Wei Tu, could it be that you are one of the Twelve Star Demons as well?" Wei Tu did not focus on the various benefits Demon Venerable Qiying had mentioned about becoming one of the Twelve Star Demons. Instead, he raised his brows slightly and asked this question in return.
The moment these words fell—
Demon Venerable Qiying immediately fell silent and did not elaborate further.
"This one... is the leader of the Thirteen Bandits of the Startling Abyss."
Not long after their conversation ended, Demon Venerable Qiying paused, shifted his gaze toward an elderly man amid the crowd who exuded a cold, sinister aura and had snake scales on his face, then led Wei Tu over.
He had not forgotten that Wei Tu's primary purpose in coming here was to rescue Young Mistress Cai from the Thirteen Bandits of the Startling Abyss, not to join the Astral Net Trading Fair.
"You are Demon Venerable Kou?"
The cold old man clearly knew something of Wei Tu. After hearing Demon Venerable Qiying's introduction, he carefully sized Wei Tu up, his expression carrying a trace of surprise and delight.
There was no need to mention the value of a seventh-rank alchemist.
What surprised him was that Wei Tu would personally come to see him and propose a ransom for the sake of a Young Mistress Cai with whom he had not shared much of a relationship...
One had to know that even her biological father, Chief Dipper Demon Venerable, had shown little desire to rescue her.
Compared to her father—
Wei Tu was practically a stranger.
"Before Kou became a Demon Venerable, Young Mistress Cai helped Kou greatly... For those past favors alone, Kou had to step forward..." Wei Tu said, half truthfully and half falsely.
It was true that he had