"Looks like you've been abandoned, Shopkeeper Lin."1

Fang Chen looked at Shopkeeper Lin with a faint smile.0

Fang Chen had already deduced that the manager might possess an item similar to a soul lamp that was linked to the Demon Cloud Emperor. This way, as long as something happened to the Demon Cloud Emperor, the manager would immediately know.0

Fang Chen was able to infer from this that the collaboration between the Heavenly Treasure Pavilion and the Demon Cloud Emperor was much closer than he had imagined. The relationship between them might not have been purely business-based, it could've leaned more toward friendship.0

As for the manager's claim that the Hidden Cloud Ancestor was on his way, Fang Chen dismissed it as nonsense. How could a mere Golden Core Realm cultivator predict...0