Takes the Bait

The low-level Rogue Cultivators of Witch's Resentment Market discovered that a piece of news, one that had little to do with low-level Rogue Cultivators like themselves, had suddenly spread through the market like wildfire.

The rumor went: an outside cultivator had sold a Blood Bodhi to Treasure Spirit Pavilion.

The reason this news had spread was that, during the transaction, Treasure Spirit Pavilion had employed certain dishonorable methods and cruelly murdered the seller.

The news had come from a companion of the seller who had been hiding in the shadows. Its sole purpose was to lure others into coveting the Blood Bodhi, thereby bringing calamity upon Treasure Spirit Pavilion and avenging the seller.

After taking control of Forgotten World Ridge, the Asura Sect had renovated Witch's Resentment Market in order to earn spirit stones, taking the opportunity to claim the market as Asura Sect property.

To sell off the shops and residences within the market, the Asura Sect had set about bringing order to Witch's Resentment Market.

Moreover, Witch's Resentment Market lay at the border between the righteous and demonic paths, where spirit materials and treasures from both sides could be found.

Thus, quite a few clans and sects had opened shops in Witch's Resentment Market.

Treasure Spirit Pavilion was a shop established by a Golden Core clan from the territory of the Nine Palaces Sect.

The shop manager was a male cultivator at the Foundation Establishment Middle Stage named Jiang Zhi.

The strongest proof of the rumor's authenticity was that, after it began spreading, Treasure Spirit Pavilion had shut its doors and never reopened.

What outsiders did not know was that Jiang Zhi had closed the shop because the rumors had affected its normal business, as well as his personal safety.

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