In a courtyard in Haiyu City.
"Ning Yanding and the others' weapons have appeared in the market." Dappled sunlight shone into the study, and a voice emerged from the shadows in a corner.
"Someone already informed me just now. What are you trying to say?" The man in blue robes at the desk raised his head.
"According to the people in the market, the man selling the weapons was in the Mid Joint Aperture Realm, with a wild, ferocious aura. There's a very good chance Ning Yanding and the others died at his hands." The shadows in the corner writhed, finally turning into a man in black robes.
"Ning Yanding and the others have been dead for so long. You want to avenge them?" A hint of mockery colored the blue-robed man's voice. Their relationship did not seem entirely harmonious.
"I wouldn't call it revenge, but their deaths implicated quite a few of our people. Now that they've fallen into that man's hands, I'm afraid they'll never leave that prison alive!"
"With his methods, he naturally won't tolerate people like us. But things haven't been easy for him lately, either. I hear he's no longer in Haiyu City."
"He isn't, so is the appearance of their weapons a trap meant to fish us out, or did someone decide the time was ripe to sell them?" the black-robed man asked quietly.
"You want to probe him? Don't say I didn't warn you. If this really is a trap, you'll never leave Haiyu City for the rest of your life!" The blue-robed man frowned.
"Even if I did, I wouldn't act personally. Besides, the man who sold the weapons has vanished completely within Haiyu City. We haven't found so much as a trace of him. His aura was utterly unfamiliar, too. So