People came and went before the tea stall; some customers left, while others stayed.
The tea stall owner found the person dressed in brown rather strange. She had sat there all day. Even the storytellers had changed twice, yet she remained in her seat.
She did not seem to be waiting for anyone, either. But since she caused no trouble, the owner stopped watching her after a while.
Some time later, when the owner came out again, he found that the customer had already vanished, leaving only a spirit stone on the table.
Startled, the owner hurriedly put the spirit stone away. Yet the people around him showed no reaction, as though they had not seen it at all.
That made sense, though. Had everyone seen the spirit stone, someone would surely have snatched it long ago.
Only then did the owner realize that the strange person who had sat there all day was actually an immortal master.
The most convenient places to gather information were undoubtedly teahouses, taverns, and brothels-places with a constant stream of customers.
Su Jiu had spent the entire day here merely to gather news about Tomorrow City and Nameless Island.
What made her feel most fortunate, however, was that she had also picked up a piece of news about the Sea of Ignorance.
She had overheard it from two cultivators who, like her, had disguised themselves.
They were in the Foundation Establishment Realm, but seemed quite confident about this trip to Nameless Island.
An elder of theirs had once fallen into the Sea of Ignorance, but had survived and brought back to their clan a black stone discovered on the seabed. Simply holding it without a magical artifact to isolate it would give one's fingers frostbite, yet no one recognized what it was.
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