Song Wen looked down on the Bao Clan, but he did not dare underestimate Six Baleful Hall in the slightest.
After Wei Gu's death, Six Baleful Hall had lain low for a long time, only to suddenly emerge and stir up trouble recently.
First, they had invited Gu Huang to refine corpses for them. Then, they had Bao Tianming gather corpse-path spirit materials and human blood essence for them.
These were merely the two matters Song Wen had happened to encounter.
In the shadows, who knew how many other things Six Baleful Hall had been doing?
Song Wen had reason to believe that during these more than twenty years of silence, something must have happened within Six Baleful Hall, giving Gong Tianzong, its new hall master, the nerve to whip up storms and waves.
He feared that Six Baleful Hall had laid some hidden traps within Peacewood City. That was why he was unwilling to conduct the transaction in the city, lest he walk straight into their net.
In fact, even the one sitting before Bao Tianming at this moment was merely a Heaven-and-Earth Avatar. Song Wen's true body was hidden in a tree hollow thousands of miles away.
Naturally, Bao Tianming knew nothing of this.
Over the past few days, he had suffered untold misery at Song Wen's hands. How could he dare defy Song Wen's words? Holding the jade slip, he replied almost word for word as Song Wen instructed.
[Brother Feng Chang, several Spirit Transformation disciples of Jade Spirit Palace have arrived in the city recently. They spend every day shouting about slaying demons and vanquishing evil. To avoid unnecessary complications, I believe it would be better to trade outside the city. I shall await your arrival two hundred miles south of the city.]
[Brother Bao, a