[The Ouyang Family ran a Market District and cultivated connections far and wide. They had long since gathered information on nearly all the Foundation Establishment Realm cultivators in the surrounding regions.]
[As a Pill Hall Guest Elder, your reputation had begun to spread over the past ten years, and the Ouyang Family had heard of you.]
[Thus, once they learned you had entered the Market District, they naturally dared not neglect you.]
[That was also your intention. If you had not wanted the Ouyang Family to learn your identity, you could simply have continued disguising your appearance.]
["I have long heard of your great reputation, Pill Master Wang. Meeting you today, I see it is well deserved."]
[Shopkeeper Ouyang Shen was a middle-aged man in yellow robes, with an average build and bronze skin.]
[As far as you knew, Ouyang Shen still had seventy or eighty years before reaching the end of his lifespan. He was in his prime.]
["Shopkeeper Ouyang."]
[You greeted him as well.]
[Coming to Black Mountain Market to snatch the Black Wind Eagle egg was only one of your objectives.]
[Your other objective was to lay the groundwork for the opening of the Mountain-Sea Secret Realm over ten years later.]
[In your second simulation, even though you had known in advance that the Mountain-Sea Secret Realm was about to open, your strength in the middle Qi Refining period had left you unable to do much.]
[But in this simulation, you were already a Foundation Establishment Realm cultivator, as well as a Pill Hall Guest Elder.]
[Naturally, you could get involved.]
[You spoke with Ouyang Shen for a while. Mostly, he wanted to know why you had come to Black Mountain Market.]
[You casually found an excuse to brush him off.]
[Finally, Ouyang Shen left after saying,