Salas Comes Knocking (Requesting Monthly Votes)

After all, once Bibi Dong chose to attack the Clear Sky Sect, he and Old Ghost would definitely be the ones leading the charge.

Inaccurate intelligence could easily get people killed, even if he was a Titled Douluo!

Yue Guan then returned the favor with a piece of information, saying:

"Young Master Lin, since you are so generous, Spirit Hall naturally will not be stingy.

Besides the matter of the Clear Sky Sect, another major event has recently occurred!

A mysterious sect has appeared in the North Pole Land, known as the Water Cloud Sect. It is very powerful.

The moment it emerged, two Titled Douluo appeared, and they will also be attending this auction.

It is said they have already arrived in Heaven Dou City and seem to have some designs on the Heaven and Earth Commerce Association!"

"Thank you for the warning, Senior. I will make preparations!"

Lin Hao was initially stunned, but quickly recovered. He had not expected the Water Cloud Sect he had planned to secretly seek out to emerge so soon.

After Yan Lingji became the inheritor of the Flame God's divine position, she learned of the grudge between the Flame God Sect and the Water Cloud Sect.

With her preconceived bias, she naturally had no favorable impression of the Water Cloud Sect.

Moreover, the Water Cloud Sect existed to prevent the inheritance of the Flame God's divine position. Their conflict was irreconcilable!

"Young Master Lin's family has maintained its inheritance for a long time, so you must know quite a bit about the Water Cloud Sect. I am merely doing you a small favor!"

Yue Guan smiled. After chatting with Lin Hao for a while longer, he took his men and left. He needed to return and report Tang Chen's matter!

After he left, the appearance of the Water Cloud Sect put Lin Hao and the others in no mood to continue strolling around. They headed straight back to the Small Courtyard.

"Ling Ji, how much do you know about the Water Cloud Sect?"

Lin Hao felt rather resigned. The butterfly effect brought about by him had begun to appear, and even his foreknowledge was no longer useful!

After all, there had been no mention of the Flame God Sect or the Water Cloud Sect in the original work. He knew nothing about the Water Cloud Sect's situation.

"The information I have is all from a long time ago. It only mentioned that after the Flame God Sect was destroyed, the Water Cloud Sect gradually declined as well and never appeared again afterward!"

Yan Lingji helplessly shook her head and analyzed:

"I think they should not be very powerful. Otherwise, they would not have remained obscure all this time and allowed Spirit Hall, under the Angel God, to expand so aggressively!"

"Indeed, but we cannot underestimate them. I'll send someone to investigate and see what is going on!"

Lin Hao nodded in agreement. He had a suspicion: Yan Lingji had only just become an inheritor when the Water Cloud Sect emerged.

This meant they could communicate with the Rain God of the God Realm. Did that mean the Water Cloud Sect possessed the Rain God's divine inheritance!?

"Thank you, Young Master, but you only need to investigate the Water Cloud Sect's situation here in Heaven Dou City.

There is no need to trouble yourself with the North Pole Land. I'll contact Meow Meow and have it go there!"

Yan Lingji shook her head. She had not brought Meow Meow with her this time because she was worried about exposing her identity.

After all, she had previously thought the Water Cloud Sect was lurking in the shadows. Now that they had directly stepped into the open, things were much easier to handle!

"That works too, but you must be careful in every way. The Water Cloud Sect definitely knows about Meow Meow.

It would be bad if they had something capable of restraining it. It is too important to you!"

After leaving the underground space, Lin Hao had learned what Meow Meow meant to the Flame God lineage.

It was a Soul Beast jointly nurtured and transformed with divine power by the previous eight generations of Flame Gods.

Its eight tails contained the most fundamental divine power of the eight generations of Flame Gods.

Once Yan Lingji inherited the divine position, she only needed to use divine power to transform and nurture Meow Meow's ninth tail.

Afterward, Meow Meow could sacrifice itself to Yan Lingji, allowing the Flame God's divine position to advance to a first-class god with a one hundred percent certainty!

More importantly, her strength would be more than three times that of other first-class gods, and she would possess nine lives!

In a sense, the Flame God's divine position gathered the foundations of nine geniuses to help one person become a king!

"Understood. Meow Meow is very clever!"

Yan Lingji nodded, then got up and went into the room to write a letter. She was not worried that it would be intercepted.

Lin Hao had previously been worried about information leaks, so the messages exchanged among his subordinates were all written in code.

After the group had dinner together, they were chatting in the courtyard to pass the time when Ya Fei brought a middle-aged man to the Small Courtyard.

The former pushed open the door and entered directly, while Ya Fei stopped the latter outside to wait!

Ignoring the middle-aged man's expression, Lin Hao had a maid close the door and asked with a smile:

"Ya Fei, how was your first day? Did you adapt well? Are you tired?"

"It was alright. Sister Min handled the preliminary preparations very well, and she has been very kind to me and supportive of my work!"

Ya Fei swayed her voluptuous body as she walked over to Lin Hao's side, speaking with a smile.

"That's good. Why did Salas come back with you? Did he give you trouble?"

Lin Hao raised a brow and glanced toward the gate. His refusal had been so obvious, yet Salas still had not left!

"No. He came to Sister Min to discuss cooperation and wanted to purchase high-grade Soul Tools, but Sister Min refused.

Then, since I happened to be returning, he followed along. But I think he came specifically to see you!"

Ya Fei smiled seductively, her words filled with disdain for Salas. He was asking for help yet unwilling to lose face—how could that possibly work!

"Indeed. Still, it seems he has at least some brains!"

Lin Hao smiled and continued chatting with Yan Lingji and the others, with no intention whatsoever of opening the gate to welcome him.

Hearing the conversation from inside the courtyard, Salas's face outside turned as black as charcoal.

He truly wanted to turn around and leave, but when he thought of His Eminence's task, he held himself back.

He did his best to compose himself before stepping forward and knocking on the door.

Lin Hao exchanged a glance with Ya Fei, then had the maid open the gate. With a look of surprise on his face, he said:

"Bishop Salas, why have you come to my place so late at night instead of resting?"

"Young Master Lin, I have come uninvited to invite the Heaven and Earth Commerce Association to join Spirit Hall!"

After being left waiting for so long, Salas harbored some resentment. Thus, he did not bother with pleasantries and got straight to the point.

In his view, the Heaven and Earth Commerce Association had only two Titled Douluo.

One of them was even Dugu Bo, regarded as among the weakest of Titled Douluo. Lin Hao had no reason to refuse!

After all, Soul Tools involved enormous interests. Two Titled Douluo were not enough to protect them. Spirit Hall was helping Lin Hao!

"Heh, Bishop Salas, it is getting late. You should go back and rest!"

Lin Hao waved his hand, signaling for the other party to leave. He took back what he had just said—the man had no brains at all!

Salas had been secretly observing the Small Courtyard's situation. Upon hearing this, he was first stunned, then said:

"Young Master Lin, I came today under the orders of Spirit Hall's Grand Elder.

Spirit Hall sincerely invites the Heaven and Earth Commerce Association to join us. We can cooperate more deeply!

Young Master Lin also understands that the profits represented by Soul Tools are immense. The Heaven and Earth Commerce Association alone cannot possibly protect them.

My Grand Elder is willing to help the Heaven and Earth Commerce Association share the risks, dispatching experts to lend support and even deal with those harboring ill intentions in the shadows!

Our demands are also simple. All revenue will be split evenly between our two sides.

At the same time, certain high-grade Soul Tools may only be supplied to Spirit Hall, which we will purchase at market price!"