Chen Beiwu's eyes lit with interest.
With his discernment, he could naturally tell that the fat man before him, who called himself Li Wanquan, a manager of the Treasure Source Commerce Association, was a Blood-Exchange martial artist.
Yaoqian martial artists were divided into eight realms. Those in the Blood-Exchange Realm could be called grandmasters, and their most obvious trait was the initial emergence of demonic features.
The reason was simple. Before entering the Blood-Exchange Realm, martial artists were no different from Immortal Alliance mortals. After exchanging their blood, however, refined demon blood replaced most of the blood in their bodies. They were no longer pure humans, but half-demons possessing a trace of Demon Race bloodline.
Precisely because of this, the strength of Blood-Exchange grandmasters in this world varied enormously.
Whoever refined demon blood of sufficiently high grade and quality during their breakthrough, and successfully endured its backlash, could become a powerhouse among grandmasters.
Without even activating his Heavenly Eye Profound Ability, Chen Beiwu could tell at a glance that Li Wanquan had used the blood essence of an upper-grade second-tier spirit beast, the Floating Spirit Toad, during his breakthrough. This had caused abnormalities in his body, giving him a protruding belly and a potbellied appearance.
"Sir, this is no place to talk. Why don't we find a private room?" Li Wanquan asked respectfully.
In desperate illness, one would turn to any doctor.
Ordinarily, he would never have approached a powerful stranger without reason.
Especially when this person was unfathomably powerful and a cultivator from Beyond the Domain, leaving him unable to gauge him!
But he had no choice. He was merely a Blood-Exchange grandmaster, a front for those above him. If he failed to gather the Longevity-Extending Pills for tribute on time and fill the association's deficit, the entire Li