Old Acquaintance?

Within the City Lord's Manor, spiritual energy curled through the air. In the vast pavilion, Gu Xiaolong and Gu Xi sat in their chairs, while Bai Yu and Liu Qingli sat opposite them. The young man in the seat of honor lounged carelessly in the middle, his posture somewhat languid.

After the main forces of the Heaven Origin Sect had been wiped out, Bai Yu left everything that followed entirely to Gu Jing. Whether it was the Heaven Origin Sect's territory or its accumulated foundations, Gu Jing would gather them all and hand them over once the people from the Blood Prison Dynasty arrived.

And the person coming to handle the handover was also an acquaintance of Bai Yu's—Tu Kui!

This elder of the Heavenly Demon Sect's Corpse Refining Sect would lead the people of the Blood Prison Dynasty and the Feather Spirit Dynasty in taking full responsibility for the cooperation between Heavenly Abyss Island and the Gu Family.

After making a few simple arrangements, Bai Yu followed the Gu Family members to the City Lord's Manor, where Jiang Mingsheng had already been waiting.

Jiang Mingsheng was clearly uninterested in the cooperation between the Blood Prison Dynasty and the Gu Family. Even when Liu Qingli brought up the division of benefits, he seemed listless. Instead, his gaze kept drifting toward Bai Yu, as though he had something he wanted to say but hesitated to voice.

"That is the plan. We intend to use the Gu Family's seagoing vessels to transport resources and establish trade. The Feather Spirit Dynasty's Great Medicine and resources can be sold to Upperstream, while the City Lord need not contribute much—only a pass."

"But that ten percent of the profits will be real and tangible."

"Even when the other passage is opened in the future, the