Guo Dundun frowned. Wasn't that far too many? Their entire Shenzhou Kingdom only had the Ten Transcendent Masters, yet he had never expected a backwater like the North Sea Kingdom to have so many Transcendent Masters!
That was the gap between them.
"Anything else?" he continued asking.
"That's all. Apart from the Grand Lords, small and medium-sized lords like us simply can't afford to hire those Transcendent Masters."
"What about that female Prophet, Nalan Hongchuo? Do you know where she comes from?"
Suddenly noticing the silence behind him, Guo Dundun frowned and glanced back at her. Bai Bingbing was struggling with herself, as though she had something she found difficult to say.
Was there an inside story?
Guo Dundun's interest immediately stirred. "You're not going to talk?"
The faint threat brought Bai Bingbing out of her inner struggle. She hesitated. "I-I don't know much either. I once heard Sister Luo Lan say that Nalan Hongchuo and Xiao Lin, the sister and brother, aren't actually from our North Sea Kingdom. That's all I know."
If they weren't from the North Sea Kingdom, where were they from?
Guo Dundun suddenly felt there seemed to be some conspiracy involved, but he could not put his finger on it. It seemed he would have to pass this information to Brother Hao and see what he said.
After waiting a long time without another question from Guo Dundun, Bai Bingbing anxiously spoke up. "General Guo, I've told you everything I should and shouldn't have. Could you let me go?"
"That depends on what price the people coming to save you can afford. Isn't that Violet woman your sister? Tell her to bring money to ransom you."
This...
*What sister? Their families were merely old acquaintances, and that connection was with her husband's family, not her