So Vile and Base

"Stop!"

An old man shouted.

Chen Changming stopped in midair and narrowed his eyes as he sized up the group.

One was at the sixth layer of the Nascent Soul Realm, four were at the fifth layer, and one was at the fourth layer—a total of six people.

Farther away, two men, one dressed in black and the other in white, stood atop a towering mountain peak.

One of them held a bronze mirror and watched the scene in the distance.

The mirror clearly showed Chen Changming and the six Nascent Soul Realm cultivators.

Both men were at the seventh layer of the Nascent Soul Realm.

"This man is rather mysterious. To be safe, we should stay alert and make sure we don't fall into anyone's trap..."

The man in white stared at the bronze mirror and spoke in a low voice.

"Mm. We can't underestimate him."

The man in black nodded, frowning. "Earlier, in Hunyuan City, I used my divine ability to probe his cultivation from a distance. He really was at the second layer of the Golden Core Realm. That's why I suspect he may be a Nascent Soul Realm Body Cultivator."

The man in white looked up at him. "You couldn't tell what level his body cultivation was?"

"I couldn't."

The man in black sighed softly. "I've rarely seen anyone with such powerful breath-concealment techniques."

When had they started watching him?

Chen Changming's thoughts raced. In Hunyuan City, he'd only visited two places: the Spirit Grass Pavilion and the Star Moon Trading Firm. He'd bought some spirit herbs at the Spirit Grass Pavilion, but had spent only a little over ten million Spirit Stones.

That amount of Spirit Stones probably wouldn't be enough to hire so many Nascent Soul Cultivators.

Then...

The most likely culprit was