Born into troubled times, Maple Province City remained as flourishing and prosperous as ever—even more so, because of the influx of large numbers of outsiders and the powerful clans from various regions who had come in to take refuge.
Like oil boiling over raging flames, it grew more prosperous by the day.
Yet because of this, prices soared. Resource output everywhere fell off a cliff, and the prices of spirit items for fleeing, defense, healing, and the like shot up five to tenfold.
If not for the stable price of Spirit Stones, they could have soared to a truly astronomical degree.
The things Wang Yu had instructed the three of them to do in the Prince's Residence were actually very simple: investigate the movements of the Saint Sect's Evil Sword Peak disciples, and on the surface, use this to pry into Nine Evil's whereabouts.
In truth, he was deliberately exposing himself. As long as even one of those people was captured, a soul search would naturally reveal traces of him. The black smoke he had just recalled was indeed a demonic thought.
But another force had also been hidden within it and sent inside. He had left a Black Paper Boat in each of the three people's bodies, precisely the power of the Soul Gouging Evil Boat Curse. If they encountered a soul search, it would destroy the souls of all three.
This was the second layer of concealment. His true purpose was naturally to expose himself to Nine Evil Sword Lord, using his own body as bait to lure the man out and then encircle and kill him.
The plan was rather crude, but absolutely effective.
Even if the other party knew there was a trap, he would still come and test it. It counted as an open scheme.