No advantage in strength?
Master Duo was somewhat surprised. Aren't they just a group of merchants? Before Cen Qi Castle, Master Duo had always looked down on commerce and had never taken this group seriously. Only after Master Hu of Fierce Tiger Villa had taught him a vivid lesson did he realize that these businessmen were no pushovers.
"Can you determine their combat strength?"
"Master Duo, I'm not skilled in combat, but I can still assess combat strength. On the surface, this group consists of merchants, but I have a feeling they're the fronts for powerful figures within the Flower Demon Clan. The bodyguards they hired may not be much, but the combat strength of their core teams is definitely not weak. Master Duo, you mustn't underestimate them."
Master Duo was not underestimating them. Rather, he simply found it difficult to accept this psychologically. In a place like the core world, merchants were ultimately not among the upper class.
In the core world, the true top-tier upper class consisted of powerful figures with absolute authority, supreme bloodline talents of their own, and the backing of the golden clans.
The next tier consisted of experts with noble bloodlines and powerful figures entrenched in their own territories.
Merchants? If the core world were to rank people by status, merchants would never make the list.
Thus, Master Duo subconsciously felt that merchants should be fat sheep. No matter how much money they made, they still had to watch the powerful clans' expressions and rely on their influence.
Yet Zu Yao was saying that their combat strength was formidable? Was it even possible that he, Master Duo, leading these elites from Valley of Forgetfulness, might not be able to gain much of an advantage?
This made Master Duo slightly uncomfortable. Subconsciously, he felt that