When Ye Xiwen received the news of the Hidden Dragon List, his first reaction was not to look at the rankings, but at Baixiaosheng.
To many people, Baixiaosheng was an organization that had suddenly sprung up out of nowhere. Many did not even know what Baixiaosheng did; they only knew that it was a newly emerged intelligence organization. But to Ye Xiwen, Baixiaosheng was no stranger—it was an old friend.
Back in the True Martial Realm, he had dealt with Baixiaosheng before. That was why Ye Xiwen found it strange. How had Baixiaosheng suddenly expanded from the True Martial Realm to the Ancient Barrens Continent and created such an enormous stir? This was not something a minor force could accomplish. It could even be said that not even a massive, deeply rooted force like the Ye Family could do what Baixiaosheng had done.
Could it be that Baixiaosheng in the True Martial Realm had merely been a subordinate branch?
No one knew when Baixiaosheng had first appeared in the True Martial Realm. They only knew that, long, long ago, Baixiaosheng's people had already spread throughout the teahouses and taverns of the True Martial Realm. These storytellers all came from an organization called Baixiaosheng. They possessed the most complete intelligence network in the world. So long as one could pay the price, there was almost nothing they did not know.
Though those storytellers did not have the strength to truss a chicken, no one dared look down on or bully them. Before one even had to consider retaliation from Baixiaosheng itself, the experts who had owed Baixiaosheng favors over the years would already be enough to erase a force without leaving a trace. One could well imagine how terrifying Baixiaosheng was.
Not many people knew Baixiaosheng's origins, but the more those