At Feng Jun's question, the idler's face showed hesitation. "This... the Rogue Cultivators Alliance forbids us from talking about it."
"How much longer are you planning to deceive me? Do you think I'm an idiot?" Feng Jun gave a sinister grin and drew a dagger with a swish. "Want to put your boots back on?"
This idler truly was not very brave. That bit of ruffian-like swagger had only been an act to protect himself. Otherwise, as a Mid Qi Refining cultivator, he should not have been so terrified. Seeing the other man draw a dagger to chop off his feet, he immediately panicked. "Don't, don't! I'll talk, all right?"
The instructions he had received were not to tell outsiders. Highway robbery around the market was not especially common, but neither was it rare. The other party only robbed him without harming him, so he was already fairly lucky.
It was normal for the other party to want to determine whether this area could still be robbed—he was a wandering criminal, after all.
But even wandering criminals had to consider whom they could rob and whom they could not. The Rogue Cultivators Alliance was no longer what it had once been. It now had five Golden Cores. In just half a year, besides the Liu Family brothers, three more Golden Cores had joined.
The Rogue Cultivators Alliance was unlike the Four Sects and Five Platforms, where there were so many Golden Cores that some had to be concealed. They announced every new member they gained. Their most pressing task now was to spread their reputation, so they did not hide it from the outside world at all.
Ruining the Rogue Cultivators Alliance's affairs... ordinary wandering criminals truly would not have the nerve.
So the idler explained. Their task was to