The young man surnamed Yan and the bald, burly man wore uncertain expressions, their minds clearly in turmoil.
Only the middle-aged scholar looked utterly grim. He spoke coldly to Feng Sanniang:
"Hasn't your Six-Linked Hall gone too far? Everyone knows the Infant Carp Beast is a natural water-element spirit beast with incredibly powerful water-element divine powers. If it's at grade six, then in the sea, it's hardly weaker than an ordinary grade-seven demonic beast. Yet you invited me to help under the pretext of hunting a grade-six demonic beast! Were you deliberately trying to deceive me?"
As the middle-aged scholar spoke, anger spread across his face, as though he had been thoroughly duped.
Qing Suanzi and the others finally regained their composure, but their expressions were equally dissatisfied.
However, they were all rogue cultivators with no one to back them up, and they dared not offend the Six-Linked Hall lightly. They remained silent, waiting to see how Feng Sanniang would respond.
"Fellow Daoist Mao, that isn't fair! In what way has our Six-Linked Hall deceived any of you? The Infant Carp Beast may be rather powerful, but it is a genuine grade-six demonic beast. Surely you can't insist that our hall call a grade-six demonic beast grade seven!"
"Besides, when you learned that our hall was willing to offer something as precious as a Dustfall Pill as payment, you should have realized that what we were dealing with was no ordinary grade-six demonic beast. Otherwise, why would our hall agree to a losing bargain?"
Feng Sanniang's expression darkened as she bluntly rebutted him.
Her words left the middle-aged scholar speechless, unable to say anything for quite some time.
Naruto and Han Li inwardly frowned and exchanged a glance.
At first, the woman's words seemed somewhat reasonable, but they still felt