As a merchant, Du Yueji had spent his life making deals. Yet the deal he had made simply to get on good terms with the young man had brought him the greatest reward of his life.
After all, although the Mountain Sea Merchant Alliance had long operated under the Nine Sons of the Endless Sea Sects, whenever trouble struck,
they usually had to handle it themselves.
This time, however, the Heavenly Evolution Immortal Sect had personally stepped forward to seek justice for the Mountain Sea Merchant Alliance.
With the tiger hide of the Heavenly Evolution Immortal Sect's personal intervention to shelter it, the Merchant Alliance's future growth and expansion would likely go a hundred, even a thousand times more smoothly than before.
There was a world of difference between acting under the banner of the Nine Sons of the Endless Sea and having them personally step forward to seek justice for the Mountain Sea Merchant Alliance. The gap far exceeded anything Du Yueji had imagined.
Besides, when tens of thousands of years of the Mountain Sea Merchant Alliance's work had been destroyed overnight, it would have been impossible for him not to feel some resentment toward the Heavenly Evolution Immortal Sect, on which they relied.
For generations, his family had championed goodwill toward others. The Merchant Alliance's fleets even prepared ample gifts before setting out to trade, all to avoid offending any Human Race power or Endless Sea Aquatic Clan.
Yet in the end, they had still been caught up in the young man's affairs and suffered a calamity out of nowhere.
But as he looked at the corpse on the ground, he knew everything had changed.
With such a fiercely protective sect sheltering them, he only had to imagine the Mountain Sea Merchant Alliance's future to know its growth