Inside the Tongtian Merchant House on Chaotic Void Island, Great Shopkeeper Yan Chi had just received two pieces of news. His brows were knitted into a deep furrow, and his face was so gloomy it seemed water could drip from it.
"Trash, all of you are trash!"
"The people we already caught actually vanished into thin air! Eight people vanished into thin air, and you don't have a single scrap of news! What are you all good for?"
"Investigate! Have a World King Realm expert lead the investigation and look into this personally. If you can't find the answer, then don't bother coming back!" Seething with rage, Great Shopkeeper Yan berated the steward who had previously led the capture of Big Ear until he was drenched in abuse.
While Yan Chi was raging, Shopkeeper Ma beside him was unable to sit still.
He knew all too well why his brother-in-law, Great Shopkeeper Yan, was so furious.
The main reason was that he had botched his own matter. That steward from the Tongtian Trading House had merely suffered the calamity of fish in a pond.
After driving out all the idle bystanders, Yan Chi set up several barriers against Soul Power eavesdropping, then forcibly suppressed his anger and barked at Shopkeeper Ma, "What exactly happened?"
"A group of Mystic Palace Realm martial artists were tracking a fellow with only Spirit-Connecting Realm First Level cultivation, yet they actually lost him! I'm embarrassed for them!" Yan Chi cursed.
"Brother-in-law..."
Shopkeeper Ma wore a bitter smile. His subordinates were all trusted confidants and would never deceive him, but the matter was simply that bizarre. "Brother-in-law, that kid's speed was truly too strange. His flying speed was actually much faster than that of Mystic Palace Realm martial artists. In the blink of an eye, he