The Divine Sea Realm cultivator was pot-bellied and beaming, with a genial look on his face. His robes were embroidered with gold and adorned with jade, making him look less like a cultivator than a wealthy old gentleman.
Lu Ye immediately understood who this man was.
Seeing Lu Ye look over, the pot-bellied Divine Sea Realm cultivator spread his wide sleeves and drifted over. Landing before Lu Ye, he clasped his fists with a broad smile. "Greetings, little friend Lu. I am Jin Fuhai of the Heaven's Mystery Merchant Guild, humbly serving as a shopkeeper. I have come under orders to handle a few handovers with you."
The moment those words were spoken, even Shui Yuan beside him could not help being moved. The shopkeepers of the Heaven's Mystery Merchant Guild were unlike the shopkeepers of ordinary mortal merchants. The Heaven's Mystery Merchant Guild's influence spread throughout the Nine Provinces, covering the homeland as well as the two great spaces of the Spirit Stream Battlefield and Cloud Stream Battlefield. Calling them capable of reaching the heavens and the earth would not be an exaggeration.
The Heaven's Mystery Merchant Guild could also be considered a third-party faction within the Nine Provinces, but its principle was harmony brings wealth. It never interfered in or took part in the conflict between the Vast Sky Alliance and Myriad Demon Ridge, and the cultivators within the Merchant Alliance were all primarily engaged in trade and commerce.
The organization's tentacles stretched across every corner of the Nine Provinces. Even a Spirit Stream Realm cultivator would deal with them, yet the more one came into contact with them, the more one could sense their mystery.
The most mysterious among them were those known as shopkeepers. They were the highest-ranking figures in the entire Heaven's Mystery Merchant Guild,