Dawn came quickly.
In the Rear Courtyard of the North City Inn, Shopkeeper Mo and Yun Lou drank with ever-growing gusto, draining an entire jug of fine wine weighing over a hundred jin—wine that even ordinary Heavenly Human Realm cultivators would consider top-grade.
Yet neither of them felt satisfied.
Yun Lou in particular had just been extorted out of sixty percent of his resources by Shopkeeper Mo, and he was utterly depressed. He desperately wanted to drink more of Shopkeeper Mo's wine to make up for his losses.
So he urged Shopkeeper Mo to bring another jar of good wine.
Shopkeeper Mo had originally been unwilling. Considering Yun Lou's sixty percent of resources, he had already brought out the finest wine stored here. The worst ingredients used to brew such wine were Profound Grade Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures, and there were only three jars in his treasury.
Taking out one jar was already generous enough. If he took out any more, it would make his heart ache.
But Yun Lou kept needling him with his words, and Shopkeeper Mo could no longer save face. He could only summon a trusted subordinate and prepare to have him fetch another ten jin from the treasury.
Who would have thought that an unexpected incident would arise?
A subordinate sent out to gather intelligence suddenly came rushing back in a panic.
"Shopkeeper, this is bad..."
Seeing his subordinate so flustered, both Shopkeeper Mo and Yun Lou were startled. "What's bad? Could it be that Ruo Saint of the White Emperor Family really tracked us down?"
"N-No, it's not Ruo Saint chasing us..."
"You bastard! If Ruo Saint isn't chasing us, why are you panicking like this?"
"Pathetic!"
Shopkeeper Mo was furious. A person could be scared to death by another person's panic.
Yet