When Dongmen Gaozhi had once been on rotation duty at the shop, a cultivator came in to sell a "Blood Diamond Light Soul" Gu insect. He had immediately taken an interest in it.
That cultivator had concealed his entire body, making it impossible to discern his identity, but Dongmen Gaozhi had guessed that he was likely a Soul Cultivator.
Perhaps the man urgently needed to buy something exorbitantly expensive, and it was already too late to return and gather more spirit stones. Such things were quite common in the marketplace.
That was why he had put the "Blood Diamond Light Soul" Gu insect up for sale, hoping to obtain an enormous sum of spirit stones.
Dongmen Gaozhi knew that, to ordinary cultivators like them, this thing was exceedingly precious, though in the eyes of a Soul Cultivator, it might only have been passable.
This was something that attacked a person's soul. Dongmen Gaozhi did not believe that Zuo Qiudan could still hold out after it was used on him.
Dongmen Gaozhi had not informed the firm about that transaction. Instead, he had dealt with that cultivator in private.
As a steward of the firm, with his family having served at the "Juruisheng" firm for generations, Dongmen Gaozhi did not lack spirit stones.
Yet even with his considerable wealth, he had still returned and borrowed a great deal from his grandfather before finally completing that transaction.
And what followed opened the door to Zuo Qiudan's even more tragic life...
The information Li Yan had obtained left him sighing with emotion. Even he did not dare imagine the cruelty of the cultivation world.
Thus, no matter when it was, he could never fall into another's hands. He would only proceed with caution every step of the way while always keeping a trump