Su Yao stood up and patted the dust from her body.
"Which three?"
"Liu Family Shop, Zhao Family Iron Shop, and Sun Family Shop. They're all small forging workshops, with no real fame in the Southern Region. They should be the ones Liu Zicheng contracted production capacity from before."
Su Yao thought it over.
"I've heard of Sun Family Shop. They supplied goods to Tianyuan Chamber of Commerce before. After Liu Zicheng fell, their family never sold any Dharma Artifacts again. Their stock piled up until it filled a whole room. Liu Family Shop and Zhao Family Iron Shop were on pretty much the same path too, all relying on Tianyuan Chamber of Commerce to eat."
"Those three should all have reached a deal."
Su Yao nodded.
"They definitely reached a deal. Since they came to negotiate, that means Profound Heaven Sect had the Spirit Stones ready and had also settled the terms. Otherwise, all three wouldn't have made the trip."
Lin Taichu walked over beside the reef and sat down as well, looking at the sea.
"Even if they reached a deal, it's useless. Dharma Artifacts can't be produced the moment a deal is struck. From taking an order to delivering the goods, a forging workshop needs at least half a month. In that half month, we can think of a way to intercept that shipment of theirs."
Su Yao turned her head and looked at Lin Taichu.
"How do we intercept it? The goods come from the forging workshops. Whoever they sell to is their business. We can't just block the doors of the forging workshops and stop them from shipping."
"All Dharma Artifacts leaving Immortal Soldier Island have to be registered at the island entrance. We only need to keep an eye on the records there. Once