The Hidden Vault was like a portable space; as long as the door was opened with that specific key, it would become the entrance to the Hidden Vault.
For this reason, the person in charge of guarding the Hidden Vault key was usually sent directly by the Headquarters.
They didn't involve themselves in anything else; they only watched over the key and never entered the Hidden Vault themselves.
As if noticing Wang Gen's gaze, Uncle Guo, curled into a ball, glanced at him.
"What, interested?"
Wang Gen shook his head decisively.
"No, not interested at all!"
Uncle Guo let out a yawn.
"I'm getting old and should be retiring soon."
"If you're interested, just apply to the higher-ups. I'm sure they'd be very happy to have a new guardian."
Wang Gen shook his head again and walked away with absolute determination.
...
By the time he returned to the temporary headquarters, Su Baadao was drawing on a map. Seeing him enter, Su Baadao put down his pen.
"Although there was a minor hiccup and we couldn't find out who the mastermind behind finding a hidden gem was, we did find out who bombed the Security Bureau."
"The True Knowledge Society!"
Wang Gen frowned slightly. In Great Wei, there were all sorts of cults; after all, ordinary people were very easy to deceive.
There were four representative ones. The first was the Shadow Lotus Cult; they were pure rebels who spent their days either planning a rebellion or being on the way to start one!
The second was the Primitive Cult. They were a bunch of lunatics who believed humans should return to a primitive lifestyle and rejected all modern things.
Cars, high-rise buildings, computers, cell phones—everything had to be rejected!
Some extremists even believed that fire itself should be rejected!
The third was the True Knowledge Society. This was a secret cult that pursued the truth of the world, and they were the most insane of all.
Grave robbing, robbery, and human sacrifice were child's play to them.
They would even trade with certain special entities just for so-called truth and history.
In most cases, however, they not only gained nothing but became puppets of evil gods.
If anyone in all of Great Wei knew the most about evil gods, it was definitely the True Knowledge Society.
The last one was the Idealist Society. Strictly speaking, they couldn't even be called a cult because they were just a group of people with no organization or discipline.
They didn't commit evil for any kind of profit; they did it simply for the sake of being evil.
Because of this, even within cult circles, their reputation was poor.
After all, no one wanted to play with lunatics.
Wang Gen frowned.
"I didn't expect it to be those lunatics. But why? Just for the Demigod's Skull?"
"That thing is valuable, but it shouldn't warrant such a massive commotion."
Su Baadao nodded.
"I've heard that the high-ranking members of the True Knowledge Society are almost all puppets of evil gods."
Wang Gen's frown deepened upon hearing this.
"No, that's not right."
"An evil god is still a god. Uncle Guo said the reason the sealed object blacklisted us was that we used it to peer at a god."
"In that case, why was it fine when we peered at the True Knowledge Society?"
"There are only two explanations. First, the mastermind behind this isn't an evil god."
"Second, the existence we peered at before is even more terrifying than an evil god."
After Wang Gen finished, he looked at Su Baadao, who was frowning.
"What I'm more concerned about is the goal of these lunatics."
...
Evening.
Outside Meng City.
Yin Yang let out a sigh. He hadn't gained much from Wang Zheng and Liu He.
After all, it had been over a decade, and they weren't the ones who had handled Yin Yang back then.
At that time, like the Li brothers, they were small-time figures who couldn't get their hands on 'good stock' like a natural transcendent.
As for the evidence he had gathered from them, in the spirit of not letting it go to waste, he had scheduled it to be posted online. Now, all of Meng City was in an uproar.
Yin Yang stretched lazily.
"I had two goals in coming to Meng City."
"The first was to find Li Jianwen, which is done."
"I didn't just find him; I found his brother too."
"The second goal is to find materials for the promotion potion."
"I heard before that there's a massive underground trading market in Meng City called Wanwu City. As long as you have enough gold notes, you can even buy sealed objects there. But I've been looking for a long time without finding it."
"Fortunately, Wang Zheng and Liu He knew. I suppose I was just too young and inexperienced."
"Next time I move to a new place, I'll just find two people like them to kill. Wouldn't I know everything I need to know then?"
Behind him, the blade-wielding ghost grinned in agreement.
Coo, coo, coo—
A series of bird calls sounded. Yin Yang closed his eyes and listened carefully before running quickly in one direction.
Coo, coo, coo—
The bird calls grew closer. The blade-wielding ghost turned into a smear of darkness and merged into Yin Yang's shadow.
After running for about three minutes, Yin Yang reached a campfire. Three figures in black were standing near the fire.
They were completely covered in black robes and wore bird-face masks, occasionally letting out those bird-like coos.
Yin Yang flipped his right hand, and a gold card appeared in his palm.
One of the men in black looked at the gold card and waved his sleeve. A ring of fire rose from the campfire.
Inside that fire ring was another world entirely.
Yin Yang had already learned about this through the memories of Wang Zheng and Liu He, so he wasn't surprised. He jumped into the fire ring with practiced ease.
Whoosh!
The fire ring vanished, and Yin Yang found himself in a bustling market.
There were stalls everywhere, with constant shouting and haggling.
Not far away, there were even rows of shops.
Almost everyone on the street was dressed the same, wrapped up so tightly they practically covered their eyes.
Yin Yang, however, wore his familiar outfit: a transparent raincoat and a black mask.
"Phew—"
He let out a long breath, finding it quite novel.
Behind him was a sign with three lines of text.
【First, no transcendent items allowed.】
【Second, no transcendent abilities allowed.】
【Third, no clever tricks allowed.】
Yin Yang smiled, finding this Wanwu City very interesting.
"Overlord worm eggs! Overlord worm eggs!"
"They're a great choice whether you use them as materials or hatch them as pets!"
"Nine-Leaf Flame Lotus! Can be used as a primary material for a Sequence 5 pathway! Fixed price, no deception!"
Amidst the surrounding cries, Yin Yang walked quickly into the market.
According to the memories of Wang Zheng and Liu He, at least ninety-nine out of a hundred items at these stalls were fakes.
While the items in the shops were expensive, they were guaranteed to be authentic.
Yin Yang ignored the stalls and soon reached the street of shops, which was noticeably quieter.
Almost every shop had a sign outside indicating its business scope.
After scanning the area, Yin Yang spotted an 'acquaintance.'
Ye Muchun!
The boss of the Wang City underground market. What was he doing here?
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