After disposing of the two small fry, Song Wen rose into the air and headed for the place where he and Rong Shao had parted, which was also their agreed meeting spot.
By the time he arrived, Rong Shao was already waiting atop a mountain.
"Fellow Daoist Rong Shao, what did Lin Feng say?" Song Wen asked, getting straight to the point.
"He refused. I didn't even get to see him; we only exchanged a few words through a communication jade slip. I offered the steep price of a million superior spirit stones per Blazing-Fire Purifying Talisman and asked to buy four, but Lin Feng wouldn't sell me even one," Rong Shao said, looking somewhat disappointed.
Just as I expected, Song Wen thought.
The Lin Clan did not allow Blazing-Fire Purifying Talismans to fall into outsiders' hands.
But this was not something Lin Feng could decide, even as the Lin Clan's patriarch. After all, he was merely an Integrated Body Realm Cultivator and could not yet take part in decisions concerning the foundations of the entire clan. The true decision-makers were probably the Lin Clan's three Mahayana stage ancestors.
Lin Feng might have entertained the idea of selling Blazing-Fire Purifying Talismans in secret, but he lacked both the courage and the opportunity.
The Blazing-Fire Purifying Talismans were not in his hands to begin with.
As for Rong Shao's request to buy four Blazing-Fire Purifying Talismans, he had clearly included Song Wen's share.
Each of them would need one to enter Demonfall Valley and another to leave.
"Fellow Daoist Gu Huang, what do you think we should do?" Rong Shao asked.
With a turn of his hand, Song Wen took out a jade slip and tossed it over.
The jade slip contained all the intelligence he had obtained from Lin Mu