After everyone woke up, they began questioning those present about what exactly had happened. Most had no idea and had been dragged into an illusion without knowing why, while Xue Fuyao and the others tacitly pinned the blame on the clerk from the Nine Lakes Merchant Guild.
It could hardly be called shifting the blame. After all, in everyone's eyes, that man was indeed the chief culprit behind everything.
However, when the people from the Nine Lakes Merchant Guild found the supposed culprit, they discovered that his soul had suffered severe damage. Though he was still alive, his eyes were vacant, and he had clearly become a fool.
Seeing this, the people from the Nine Lakes Merchant Guild surmised that he had probably been too close to the Monster Beast capable of creating illusions and had sunk deeper into the illusion, then suffered soul damage because he had been forcibly awakened.
For now, this seemed the most reasonable explanation. As for whether someone had deliberately sabotaged them-what a joke. Who would dare cause trouble at their Nine Lakes Merchant Guild?
Inside a teahouse in Tianshui City, a girl in green sat in a corner, quietly listening to the conversations around her. A pot of tea and three plates of pastries sat before her.
On the table, a little white fox and a silver-gray spirit mouse were happily eating the pastries on the plates.
"Have you heard? Apparently, Second Young Master Qiu has been searching everywhere for Medical Sage Yun Zhongtian lately. Who knows how that Medical Sage offended him?"
"Tsk, tsk, tsk. You don't know, do you? I heard about it ages ago. Back then, Second Young Master Qiu's mother fell gravely ill, and no medicine could save her. Only the Medical Sage could treat her. Second Young Master