To prevent even the slightest trace of his aura from leaking out, Ye Zhen completely contracted his aura into the Mirage Dragon Pearl embedded in the carriage shaft.
Only a faint strand of Little Demon's divine sense remained within the camelwood thorn Little Demon had grown, observing the situation outside for Ye Zhen.
At the patrolling demon commander's shout, the demon generals who had surrounded the entire caravan so tightly that not even water could pass through began carefully searching with all manner of standard-issue detection artifacts in hand.
"Take everything out of your Storage Rings! Open all storage artifacts for inspection!" the patrolling demon general shouted again.
The caravan manager's expression changed. He hurried forward with a fawning smile. "My lord, we at Chengfeng Trading House have always followed the rules in the Taimeng Demon Realm. Everyone knows that.
If we take out all the goods in these Storage Rings, they'll pile up like mountains. How could that possibly work?
And there are some medicinal powders that will be ruined if the wind blows... My lord, please show some understanding and make an exception."
As he spoke, the manager slipped a Storage Ring into the patrolling demon general's hand.
The patrolling demon general swept his divine sense through it and seemed fairly satisfied with its contents, but his expression remained exceedingly stern.
"Shopkeeper, it isn't that I refuse to make an exception. It's that one of the great figures above has issued a death order."
"A death order?" The Chengfeng Trading House shopkeeper's face changed abruptly.
"That's right, a death order! I'll let you in on something—the one who gave this death order was an Emperor!" After saying those words, the patrolling demon general clamped his mouth shut.
As for the shopkeeper, his expression grew even uglier.
An Emperor!