"Boss? Where's the boss?"
After agreeing to leave, Bao Xiaotou had just been about to pay when he looked up and found the proprietor nowhere in sight. He could only place three Supreme Immortal Stones on the table.
Only after the group had left did the old man from earlier crawl out from a distant corner, trembling.
He slowly rose to his feet, straightened his back, and raised his sleeve to wipe away the nonexistent sweat on his forehead.
"Heavens, Ye Lin... Ye Lin... So these people were the real culprits."
The proprietor muttered to himself.
He knew that the reason those great factions had sealed off the entire Anxuan Great World was to find a culprit named Ye Lin.
The moment he had heard those two words, he had immediately hidden.
Because throughout the Anxuan Great World, word had spread that Ye Lin was a great demon—a kind who killed without even blinking.
The old man looked at the three Supreme Immortal Stones on the table, then tremblingly took a Jade Talisman from his robes.
"Hello, is this the City Lord? I think... I may have seen the culprit you've been talking about."
Meanwhile, Ye Lin was following Guan Qingsi on the way to the Ice Snow Sacred Sect.
From what he had learned over the past month, the Ice Snow Sacred Sect was one of the foremost powers in the Anxuan Great World.
It seemed that he had also casually killed one of the Ice Snow Sacred Sect's prodigies back then—apparently even the Ice Snow Sacred Sect's Holy Son.
But that was all in the past, and Ye Lin had no need to dwell on it further.
"I became the Ice Snow Sacred Sect's Saintess because I was after that cultivation technique. But I've only cultivated the first