Transaction

Big Cat waited in the tent for the Patrol Division's overseas branch to send someone over. Chu Yanming lay unconscious at its feet.

As it waited, it suddenly pricked up its ears.

Unusual sounds drifted over from afar—sounds Wenren Sheng had just heard.

"Maple Father, is that Old Man reliable?" A clear, resolute young woman's voice rang out.

"That old bastard is definitely not reliable, but we can each get what we need. He needs our cover, and we need the knowledge he brought from the Eastern Continent."

"Mm, I hope he doesn't deceive us. Among those Eastern Continent People, some are exceedingly honest, while others are liars from head to toe."

"Hmph. If he wants a long-term partnership, he can't deceive us. He can fool us once or twice, but he'll never find another organization as trustworthy as ours in Miken."

They were the same two voices he had heard earlier—the people from the Heaven's Mandate Society.

One belonged to an elderly man they called Maple Father; the other was a young woman codenamed "Birch."

The two were still far from the tent. Judging by their footsteps, it would take them at least another half hour to arrive.

Wenren Sheng's Mystic Hearing allowed him to hear sounds from an extreme distance.

With his intelligence, he immediately understood that the person they were trading with was Chu Yanming.

That fully explained why Chu Yanming and the Heaven's Mandate Society members had happened to appear in the same place.

Chu Yanming was an outsider. As an Otherworldly Master, since he did not wish to join Miken's major organizations yet had all kinds of needs related to Mysterious Realms, he had to find someone to trade with.

The Heaven's Mandate Society, an underground organization that could not show itself openly, had become