"The entire Demonic Cult was emptied out? You mean the Heavenly Gate Sect? How is that possible?"
"Exactly. I heard that the Demonic Cult might even have a Nascent Soul True Lord. Who could possibly be capable of sneaking into such a huge sect? And how could it just vanish like that?"
After a wave of shock, quite a few cultivators began voicing their doubts.
"I already said I don't know whether it's true. I only heard it from someone else."
The dark-faced cultivator who had spoken earlier looked helpless.
Wang Ba remained composed off to the side, quietly committing the dark-faced cultivator's presence to memory.
After this interruption, the cultivators' enthusiasm for denouncing the sects subsided, and the conversation returned to various rumors circulating among the public.
"Oh, right. I hear the Hundred-Pill Gathering will be held over in Lingbi City in a while. What do you all think? Are you going?"
Someone suddenly spoke up.
At the mention of the Hundred-Pill Gathering, Wang Ba's expression shifted slightly.
The Hundred-Pill Gathering was a small gathering organized by Foundation Establishment rogue cultivators to sell pills in one place.
Like the Vermin Market here, it had sprung up within the past decade.
It was said that some second-tier alchemists who had fled other small kingdoms were there as well. Their skills were exquisite, and they could refine quite a few high-quality pills in one go.
Even Wen Yong had mentioned it several times, seemingly intending to work with these alchemists.
However, alchemists enjoyed an exalted status and had no shortage of people like Wen Yong seeking to work with them, so he had made little progress and could only purchase some ordinary pills for appraisal and sale.
Wang Ba did not particularly mind. He was not very interested in pills. Consuming