Transaction

Hearing this, Black Flame froze. "How did you know?"

"Obviously. I went to all that trouble setting up the Bitter Grove Pure Land precisely to lure the Heavenly Net Evil Rakshasas over. But after all this time, I never saw a single one. I thought it had failed." Ning Ye answered irritably.

"So that forest was your doing." Black Flame laughed loudly. "Then that's right. Now this is more like your handiwork."

With a single sentence, Ning Ye dispelled all of Black Flame's suspicions.

That was more like it. Given Ning Ye's character, how could he possibly be content to sit around doing nothing in some rundown place?

Although Ning Ye had actually done it merely as a side matter, it instead proved that everything he had said before was true.

Black Flame no longer harbored any doubts. Smiling, he said, "You do have some skill. That damned Bitter Grove Pure Land really did draw in the Heavenly Net Evil Rakshasas."

Ning Ye asked curiously, "Then why didn't they appear?"

"Hehe, naturally, someone wouldn't allow them to cross the border. You wouldn't understand." Black Flame chuckled.

So that was it.

It was not that the Bitter Grove Pure Land had failed to work, but that Ning Ye had misjudged Stone Serpent—this bastard had actually meddled in the affairs of the third and fourth realms, forcibly refusing to let them cross over.

Stone Serpent had probably known that the Heavenly Net Evil Rakshasas were useful to cultivators. Afraid that they would draw mighty experts here because of it, he did not dare let so many sweet baits cross over.

Yet Black Flame's single remark explained everything.

Hmm, if that was the case, it would be easy to handle.

He understood inwardly, but said aloud, "Forget it if you won't tell me.