Sun Wudi, a Dharma Nascent Soul cultivator, wore a loose cloak, his hands tucked into his sleeves and a Dark Gold Long Staff slung diagonally across his back.
Hua Tieshou, whose cultivation was at Pseudo-Nascent Soul, sat on the other side, with dozens of jade boxes sealing different merchandise samples laid out before him.
The person seated at the head was none other than Qing Chen's Second Senior Brother, Wei Yixiao.
After decades apart, Wei Yixiao's Wisdom King aura had grown ever more profound. Even through the Recording Jade Slip, the pressure of his late Immortality cultivation still made their hearts tighten.
A scarlet gold official seal of the Ten Thousand Saints Demon Kingdom rested beside him, proof enough of his lofty position there.
Qing Chen flicked a finger, and the images on the light screen changed.
Cargo manifests appeared one after another, prominently listing blood mark spirit iron, thunderstruck spiritwood, third-tier Restriction-Breaking Talisman Paper, Dharma Artifact Blanks, refined spirit rice, healing medicinal pills, and even large quantities of Combined Formation Plates refined by Human Race formation masters.
These things were not necessarily rare within Great Jin, but in the Ten Thousand Saints Demon Kingdom, where the traditions of artifact refining and pill refining were extremely crude, every one of them was in high demand.
Quite a few of these supplies were contraband that Great Jin's immortal laws and edicts expressly forbade from entering other countries.
Carefree Spirit Venerable's gaze changed again.
Qing Chen caught that flicker of expression and said mildly, "This recording was sent back a month ago. Sun Wudi has already returned to Yanmen Pass. My disciple Hua Tieshou remains there to arrange what comes next."
"Wei Yixiao now holds an important post in the Ten Thousand Saints Demon Kingdom, equivalent to a provincial governor in our