Unable to overhear anything in the hall, Huo Hai had the attendant bring his meal to his room instead. Then he casually took out a piece of gold and asked quietly, "Has anything major happened lately?"
The attendant's eyes narrowed slightly at the sight of the gold, and a fawning smile appeared on his face. "My lord, lately? There certainly have been a few major events." Gold was not worth much in the eyes of Spirit Masters, but it was a different matter for ordinary people.
That piece of gold was worth more than the attendant could earn working here for an entire year. Seeing someone so generous, he naturally knew that this was no ordinary man, but a Spirit Master. Who besides a Spirit Master would casually take out a piece of gold to tip someone? It seemed his luck had finally turned today.
"My lord, I don't know whether you've heard, but some treasure apparently appeared on Blade Mountain recently. Later, though, word spread that the place was a trap. That pillar of light a few days ago came from the trap."
"A trap? What exactly happened? I only saw the pillar of light. I don't know what happened there. Everyone I saw along the way seemed afraid to say anything." Huo Hai simply pretended that he knew nothing.
In fact, plenty of Spirit Masters spent their days in secluded cultivation to improve their strength, paying no attention to worldly affairs. It was perfectly normal for them to emerge without knowing about events that everyone else had heard of. The attendant clearly took Huo Hai for one of them.
After cautiously looking around, the attendant said softly, "I'll tell you, but please don't say you heard it from me. I heard that the trap was aimed specifically at