Hearing Chen Lin's question, the Female Proprietress shook her head.
"No, I'm not familiar with her. I was even turned away from the Immortal Spirit Tavern myself. I couldn't get inside."
After answering, she added, "Someone unlocked the wine pot's Seven-Color Spiritual Light a while ago, causing the tavern to close. Quite a few customers were heartbroken. Rumor had it that you might have been responsible, Senior Chen. People in the city talked about it for ages, until the monster beast uprising finally pushed it out of the spotlight."
"Oh? There was a rumor like that? I wonder who started it?"
Chen Lin feigned surprise as he asked.
Besides Black Snake True Lord, the middle-aged man present at the time had also seen him unlock the Seven-Color Spiritual Light. That man might well have been working for Black Snake True Lord, so he had to be on his guard.
The Female Proprietress shook her head again. "I don't know either. It was just a rumor going around. Besides, so much time has passed that hardly anyone pays attention to it anymore."
She did not press him about whether he had actually done it. As a proprietress, she knew very well what she should and should not say.
Chen Lin nodded and dropped the subject, chatting about other matters instead.
Before long, he left the shop.
He then wandered around the market for quite some time and finally uncovered some information.
The man who had won one of the final three pots of wine at auction alongside him and Black Snake True Lord was He Quanyi, head of the city's He Lineage. His cultivation was at early Spirit Transformation, and he was the lineage's only Spirit Transformation cultivator.
After learning this, Chen Lin stopped looking into the matter.
As long as