Dong Yue

"We were talking about the Servant Market." Lin Xin reminded him.

"Oh, right. The Servant Market is where enemy sect disciples captured during sect missions, or all sorts of war slaves offered up from the mortal world, are traded as commodities. These servant slaves can be bought as cultivation furnaces or playthings, though most people buy them as servants to wait on them. But only wealthy people in the Qi Refining Stage or Innate Realm would visit such a place."

"Interesting." Lin Xin raised an eyebrow.

The two chatted as they waited for the people they had hired to move everything in and clean up.

"Want another game?" At some point, Dong Yue had produced two sets of Black and White Pieces. Grinning, he spoke to Lin Xin.

Lin Xin said nothing. He simply sat down with him at the stone table and stools in the courtyard and began playing.

The rules for Black and White Pieces here were somewhat different, and Lin Xin himself was terrible at the game. In the first match, he suffered a crushing defeat.

He glanced at the people cleaning up. They still had not finished, so the two began a second game.

By the time the cleaning was completely finished, the afternoon sun was already close to setting.

Dong Yue packed up his things and got up to leave. Before he left, he said something that left Lin Xin rather baffled.

"Big Brother, do you really not know who I am?"

Lin Xin had already guessed from Martial Uncle Ji Lu's reaction that Dong Yue was probably somewhat famous within the sect. Still, he had not looked too deeply into it. The sect's disciples died and were injured at an alarming rate, with no guarantee of surviving from one morning to the next. Many