Feng Jun understood at once as well. At the end of the day, Tiantong was merely a commercial alliance, and the relationships within it were extraordinarily complicated.
It was perfectly normal for some people to be close to the Yin Sha Sect, wasn't it? President Jiang of Yinsha Market was even closer to Yinsha—businesspeople had to deal with all kinds of people.
So when President Liu of Ginkgo Tiantong handled certain matters according to his own position, Tiantong headquarters could not say much—if they ever needed to ease relations with Yinsha in the future, they might still need President Liu and President Jiang.
That was what a mature commercial alliance ought to look like.
Thinking a little further, perhaps Yinsha had chosen this market to receive Han Po for precisely that reason—if they had gone to another market, leaving aside whether the local cultivators would be easy to fool, the local Tiantong branch might have ruined things.
After figuring this out, Feng Jun naturally told Xie Chaosheng again about how he had placed a bounty on the Ten Directions Platform.
"A bounty on the Ten Directions Platform?" Xie Chaosheng was dumbfounded. That kind of outrageous move was possible?
It was no wonder he was so shocked. That was one of the Four Sects and Five Platforms. Although they were not on particularly good terms with Tiantong, bounties like this were nearly unheard of—not to mention the target, this sort of operation placed extremely high demands on the person posting the bounty.
In his recollection, forty years ago, someone had once placed a bounty through a Tiantong branch on an adept from the Carefree Platform. Yes, only a branch, not headquarters, and the bounty had been withdrawn after just three days.
Someone had asked whether it had been removed because the