"We have to get this." Yang Yu rubbed his chin.
"Boss, think it over!"
Big Black Fish Huang Yan thrashed desperately on the floor, urging him in a frantic voice.
"We know nothing about the Myriad Worlds Merchant House. They even put a price on a True God Inheritance and hawk it openly. Who knows how deep this goes? We only just refined Qiong. If we approach them now and they decide we're rebels, what do we do when they come to wipe us out?"
Gu Shan snapped back to himself and nodded vigorously.
"Boss, there's definitely something sinister about this. The Abyss is thriving. There's no need for us to stick our necks out. Let's quietly build our fortune. Once Cang finishes absorbing the Origin, we'll have a Half-Step Ancient Illuminating fighter on our side. What could be better?"
They were afraid. Genuinely afraid.
The glimpse they had caught of the Myriad Worlds Merchant House had shattered the worldview these old monsters had built over hundreds of thousands of Eras.
Faced with a Dimensional Reduction Strike like this, Fifth Step cultivators were nothing. Even Sixth Step and Seventh Step cultivators were probably just slightly sturdier crops waiting to be harvested.
Yang Yu glanced at the two of them and scoffed.
"You don't know a damn thing."
He leaned back in his chair and tapped the stone table with his knuckles.
"You think we're safe right now?"
"Tell me, when I refined Qiong with the High-Pressure Cooker, did it make a lot of noise?"
Gu Shan nodded honestly. "A lot. An enormous amount. You even pulled out the Abyss's timeline. The disturbance could have been sensed from hundreds of Great Universes away."
"Then why hasn't anyone come looking for trouble?" Yang Yu asked. "Those old monsters in the Depth of