Old Lady Jia was very composed. After taking the Item-Storing Talisman, she did not immediately announce that she was going into seclusion.
Now that she had the item in hand, there was no need to rush. She had waited all these years already, so why hurry over a moment? She carefully adjusted her mood for several days before announcing on the sixth day that she would be entering seclusion for a while.
No one else found anything unusual. To people as shrewd as them, this reaction was actually rather strange.
However, Qu Jianlei had said long ago that someone in their group would be entering seclusion. It had simply come true now.
In the end, their First One had done his job too well. No one felt they needed to be wary of anything.
Mu Yu did mutter to Paranoid, "I keep feeling that Little Jia's seclusion this time is following the boss's plans."
Paranoid suspected nothing. "You've seen the boss's ability to modify cultivation techniques. Isn't this perfectly normal?"
On the third day of Old Lady Jia's seclusion, a vehicle drove into Ping An's headquarters.
Two people stepped out. One was a burly man, a Fire Attribute A-rank.
The other was a short, sturdy old man. His cultivation level could not be discerned, yet he naturally exuded the aura of a superior.
The two stood there without moving. Before long, the merchant group's leader, Jierte, hurried over with several people.
"Greetings, Lord Salins. Please come in, please come in..."
Supreme Salins was one of the Thirteen Giants of the Cleaners organization and generally operated in the core region.
For him to appear in the Tianhe Star Region this time, the matter was clearly no small one.
After entering Jierte's reception room, he spoke without hesitation. "We need to know