"This Kou was far more cautious than most Demon Venerables I had seen."
Half a day later, the burly man, who had withdrawn from the slave market alongside Wei Tu at his instruction, finally breathed a secret sigh of relief when he saw the fleeing light transformed from the Heaven-Surpassing Demon Warship halt in the distance.
"And not merely cautious—he was even more cunning."
The burly man narrowed his eyes, a chill surfacing on his face.
He vaguely sensed just how troublesome working with Wei Tu would be.
If Wei Tu's opportunistic price-hiking and grasping of weaknesses during their previous "cooperation" had rated a threat level of one—
Then his actions while "fleeing for his life" just now were enough to raise that threat level severalfold.
From beginning to end, neither he nor the cultivators around them had seen whether Demon Venerable Feng intended Wei Tu harm...
Yet Wei Tu had been so cautious that, merely to guard against the slightest possibility, he had directly fled.
At the same time, this move had shifted the blame onto Demon Venerable Feng, ensuring that even if he did harbor such intentions, he would have to hesitate before acting.
—Because if the desperately fleeing Wei Tu met with an accident, the foremost suspect would be Demon Venerable Feng, who had bid against Wei Tu and held a grudge against him.
Ambushing and killing others was common enough in the cultivation world, but killing a seventh-rank alchemist was naturally not something that could be mentioned in the same breath as killing an ordinary Demon Venerable...
"His threat level rivaled even the established powerhouses among Demon Venerables... He must not be offended; I can only try my best to befriend him!"
The burly man silently evaluated Wei Tu, this "newly ascended Demon Venerable."
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