After settling the Zhong family's troubles, Xu Yi returned to the Southern Pole Sect. He had thought that since cultivators existed in the secular world, there would surely be top-tier merchant alliances, and had planned to visit one to trade for some resources. Later, he did find a few merchant alliances, but when he went inside, all they sold were low-grade resources.
He had also asked the local kingpins about it. Their answer was that without strength, how could anyone hold on to treasures? The good stuff was either in the hands of powerful cultivators or had been gathered up by powerful factions. Merchant alliances were only for cultivators below the Profound Soul Realm.
After Xu Yi returned to the Southern Pole Sect, the first person to come looking for him wasn't Jiang Xiao, but Ye Shangong. Ye Shangong's expression was unfriendly as he demanded to know what Xu Yi meant. Did he have a problem with him, the Transmission Elder? Xu Yi replied that he simply couldn't stand seeing someone tarnish Elder Ye's reputation.
He could even less stand seeing someone tarnish the Southern Pole Sect's reputation. The likes of Ancestor Ku Shangren had fabricated a relationship with Elder Ye, then colluded with evil fiends like the Six Fiends of the Demonic Cloud to control secular nations. If left unchecked, this villain would utterly ruin both the Southern Pole Sect's and Elder Ye's reputations. What good was it to leave someone like that alive?
Only after hearing this answer did Ye Shangong's anger subside, and he left. The death of one Ancestor Ku Shangren was nothing. Every year, Ye Shangong had only received a few hundred Profound Yellow Pills from him. Besides, the man was already dead—what was there to argue about? Was Ye Shangong supposed to really take