A Difficult Problem

The Purple Firmament Saint spoke gently, but the vast, unfathomable saintly pressure rolling off him was like a starry sea, like the heavens collapsing overhead. The oppression born from the gap in their very levels of life and absolute power made Zhang Shuai's heart pound wildly!

He knew perfectly well that if the Purple Firmament Saint made a move now, even if he used every trump card and fought with his life on the line, he would likely stand no chance before the Saint's true body. He might not even have the slightest chance to escape!

However, Bone Market was an enterprise jointly operated and maintained by three superpowers.

In a chaotic place like the Primordial World, the price and resources required to establish a safe venue of such scale—one capable of drawing the top experts of the three clans here to trade—were easy enough to imagine!

Maintaining absolute safety and order in transactions here was the shared and most fundamental bottom line of those three powers! Otherwise, once their reputation collapsed, the foundation they had built through countless efforts would be ruined overnight.

Even the Purple Firmament Saint, one of the nineteen Saints of the Divine Continent and immeasurably powerful as he was, would never dare act rashly here, openly provoking or even breaking the rules jointly established by those three forces! That would mean making enemies of Sage Tianyan, the Fire Phoenix Clan, and the Hundred Refinements Demon Palace at the same time. The Purple Firmament Saint could not possibly be that foolish.

In other words, for the time being, he was safe within this market!

Zhang Shuai's thoughts raced. He forcibly suppressed the unease in his heart and struggled to maintain a calm expression as he asked neither humbly nor arrogantly, "The Saint has personally graced us