ebookland Chapter 168 The Whereabouts of Sect Master Lin Yuan
Chapter 168 The Whereabouts of Sect Master Lin Yuan
As soon as he shouted this, even Elder Gu, who had been lazily leaning back in his chair, immediately sat up straight, while Lin Zhifeng and Ding Mo stood up excitedly.
Lin Zhifeng eagerly said to Elder Gu, "Uncle, let's sell this Nascent Soul Pill to this person!"
Elder Gu called out to the outside, and one of his subordinates responded and left.
Before long, his men returned, bringing with them the rogue cultivator who had made the earlier bid.
Upon seeing that there were also powerful cultivators at the Refinement Realm and two others at the Nascent Soul Realm in the room, the rogue cultivator immediately became nervous.
He acted on impulse, shouting out that he knew Lin Yuan's whereabouts, and only now does he realize how reckless he had been.
In fact, the Sword Sect, along with others such as Elder Gu, a friend of Lin Yuan, also offered a reward of a considerable amount of spirit stones for providing reliable information about Lin Yuan.
The Sword Sect offered a bounty of five million high-grade spirit stones; Elder Gu, being more financially powerful, offered ten million high-grade spirit stones.
The total amount of the bounties from all sides has reached nearly fifty million high-grade spirit stones.
The reward for simply providing reliable information about Lin Yuan's whereabouts is already quite high.
However, this rogue cultivator was not satisfied with just selling this information for such a small amount of money.
His plan was shrewd: Did you think he could get all the rewards by selling the information to the bounty hunters? Of course not. As long as he sold it to one of them, since they were all Lin Yuan's relatives and friends, they would definitely share information with each other. So, the most he could get for this information was actually ten million high-grade spirit stones.
How can that satisfy him?
If he weren't good at scheming and calculating, how could he possess such a huge fortune of hundreds of millions of high-grade spirit stones with only the cultivation level of the late Nascent Soul stage?
Even if Lin Zhifeng were the chosen one of destiny, he wouldn't have such a vast fortune of hundreds of millions if he hadn't sold the flawless Divine Transformation Pill.
This man had been plotting how to find a suitable opportunity to sell this information for a good price and make a fortune. Now, he happened to see the Flawless Divine Transformation Pill, which he desperately needed, among the final items, so his shout-out was partly a gamble.
When someone came to invite him, he knew he might have made the right bet.
However, since the other party's cultivation level is so high, if we can't find them in the future, we won't have a good outcome either.
Elder Gu's subordinates led the rogue cultivator inside. The rogue cultivator was only stunned for a moment before he put on a big smile and greeted them: "This humble one is Hao Yun, greetings to you great masters."
Elder Gu sat upright in his chair, scrutinized Hao Yun from head to toe with a stern gaze, and then asked, "Which sect are you a disciple of?"
Hao Yun said, "I don't belong to any sect; I'm just a small-time rogue cultivator. I used to cultivate under my father's guidance, but he failed to break through to the Nascent Soul stage and died when his lifespan was exhausted. Since then, I've been relying entirely on myself."
Elder Gu nodded and said, "If that's the case, then you do have talent."
Hao Yun quickly replied, "You flatter me. It's just that I've never liked being managed and prefer to be free. However, because I didn't have a master to guide me, I took many detours in my previous cultivation. I consumed too many pills during my previous breakthrough, which accumulated a lot of pill toxins in my body. Therefore, I can only take the Flawless Pill to break through to the Nascent Soul Realm."
When Elder Gu heard him say this, he asked, "You say you know the whereabouts of Lin Yuan, the Sword Sect Master, is that true?"
Hao Yun said, "Of course it's true. How could I dare to lie in front of such great figures as you?"
Although he spoke with great conviction, Elder Gu was still somewhat skeptical—simply because Hao Yun's cultivation level was so low that Elder Gu found it hard to believe he had such an ability.
Fearing he might be a clueless swindler, Elder Gu warned him, "This Nascent Soul Pill is the one I entrusted to the auction house to sell. If your information is true, I will sell it to you for one hundred million high-grade spirit stones. If I find out you've deceived me, I hope you understand the consequences."
The threat in those words was too direct, but Hao Yun only hesitated for a second before saying, "No, no! Please rest assured."
Lin Zhifeng and Ding Mo were also skeptical about the reliability of Hao Yun's information, but now they preferred to believe it was true.
Elder Gu then began to ask him about Lin Yuan's whereabouts.
Hao Yun coughed to clear his throat and began to speak in detail.
It was quite a coincidence.
Despite only having a late-stage Nascent Soul cultivation level, Hao Yun is an experienced and highly capable survivor. He travels extensively, adhering to the philosophy that fortune favors the bold, and dares to go anywhere.
He dared to go and watch the great battle between the cultivation continent and the demon realm back then. However, he was well aware of his own abilities, so he only watched from the vicinity and did not approach the center of the battle.
When Lin Yuan was fighting the Demon Lord, he happened to be lying in ambush nearby and watched the whole process.
"At first, Sect Master Lin was evenly matched with the Lord of the Demon Realm. Unfortunately, he was later affected by the demonic energy emanating from the rift in the Demon Realm, which made it difficult for him to breathe, so he gradually lost ground."
"I saw that Sect Master Lin was severely injured by the Demon Lord and was about to be dragged to the rift in the Demon Realm. So I disregarded the danger and rushed out from my hiding place to rescue Sect Master Lin."
"Unfortunately, my cultivation level was too low. Not only did I fail to save Sect Master Lin, but I was also swept into the rift in the Demon Realm..."