They subsequently confirmed an unexpected fact: this shop had been rented by an unknown cultivator.
That cultivator had then hired this young cultivator as the shopkeeper, paying him an exceptionally high salary. The shop assistants here had also all been hired by the young cultivator himself.
In running the shop, the unknown cultivator took only thirty percent of its profits, while the rest belonged to the young cultivator.
His only requirement of the young shopkeeper was that there was one room he was not allowed to enter. The mysterious man claimed it had been rented out for use by the neighboring shop. If he dared reveal this matter, he would bear the consequences himself!
The young shopkeeper had been exceedingly curious about this at first, but he had been hired by the other party. What did it matter if his employer rented a room to the people next door?
Later, he came to have a certain suspicion: the true owner of the neighboring shop was likely that mysterious man as well. But he did not dare ask around next door.
That mysterious man had always been shrouded beneath a cloak. The young shopkeeper's Divine Sense could not see his appearance at all, while the aura leaking from him was enough to make his heart tremble. He believed the mysterious man could kill him with ease.
At the same time, he had desperately wanted to know what exactly was stored in that room in his courtyard. Yet he still followed the other party's orders and separated the rear courtyard into two areas.
He isolated his shop's storeroom separately. The shop assistants were only permitted to enter that small courtyard, but his speculation and curiosity concerning that room never ceased.
Finally, one day, unable to endure it any longer, the young shopkeeper