The Calm of the Mind

That evening, Wenren Sheng learned the full details of the Jin Bao incident.

The course of events was actually quite simple. Jin Bao had already revealed part of it in public before.

The specific situation was that two years ago, three of Jin Bao's friends had discovered a newly emerging Otherworldly User somewhere in Eastern Continent while out exploring.

Naturally, they had not wanted to inform the Patrol Division. As the first discoverers, they could have lifelong usage rights; if they reported it, they would at most receive the corresponding reward.

However, they already had Otherworldly Users. If they wanted to replace them with this new one, they would need to remove their previous Otherworldly Users and return them to the Patrol Division.

The benefit was that they would no longer need to worry about the Otherworldly Qualification Exam, but there were three of them, and no one wanted to hand it over to the others.

That was easy enough to understand. The three of them had originally been desperately preparing for the National College Entrance Examination together, but then one person got guaranteed admission. How could the other two possibly accept that willingly?

Moreover, Anomalies were occurring frequently now. Removing an Otherworldly User they had cultivated for years and replacing it with a new one would leave them with a long period of severe weakness in between.

There was one final problem: they might not even be able to activate or be compatible with the new Otherworldly User. At that point, they would need to take its usage rights to the Mysterious Market and exchange them with someone else for an Otherworldly User that suited them.

In short, it was an exceedingly complicated process.

As the three argued back and forth, Jin Bao caught wind of it.

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