"This journey is not as simple as it appears. This mission involves one hundred thousand high-grade spirit stones. By all reason, Shopkeeper Yin should only have allowed trusted acquaintances to take part. I originally thought there would only be the three of us—myself, Shopkeeper Yin, and Feng Youyou—but you and Bu Ren, two strangers, were added."
"Fellow Daoist, you are proficient in lightning arts and will be of enormous help on this journey. But Bu Ren has nothing particularly remarkable about him, and his cultivation is only at the mid-stage Spirit Transformation realm. Yet he is participating in this mission as well, which inevitably arouses suspicion."
"Bu Ren was brought along by Shopkeeper Yin, and I have always been wary of him. After entering the Source-Qi Death Domain, I carefully observed him. His expressions and mannerisms are nothing like those of a Rogue Cultivator. He lacks the vigilance and guardedness one should have. Instead, he resembles someone from a sect or aristocratic clan who has been pampered all his life, full of curiosity toward everything in the Source-Qi Death Domain."
"Therefore, I suspect that Bu Ren and Shopkeeper Yin have some other agenda. Perhaps after finding the Beauty Serpent, the two of them will turn against you, me, and Feng Youyou. If you and I join forces, we will be able to handle them with ease when facing the two of them."
Perhaps to win Song Wen's trust, Yan Tong explained his reasoning in great detail.
Song Wen said, "If that is the case, why don't we withdraw now?"
Yan Tong said, "Fellow Daoist, you are thinking too simply. If Bu Ren and Shopkeeper Yin truly intend to harm us, would they so easily let us leave? Besides, the Beauty Serpent is an exceedingly rare Void Demon. Even without Shopkeeper