Five thousand miles outside Chaotic Sky Island, a fleet flying the flag of the Huiguang was rushing towards the island, maintaining a strict formation, with sailors constantly surveying the situation in all directions.
Suddenly, the lookout perched atop the mast shouted in alarm, "Quick, inform the shopkeeper, there’s a commotion ahead, and it’s not small. Should we bypass it or keep our distance?"
Soon enough, a middle-aged man emerged from the cabin, accompanied by two Realm King Realm tributors, who ascended to the top of the mast, focusing their energy to gaze into the distance.
"Shopkeeper, the aura of a battle is ahead, and it’s one involving the Demon Clan with formidable power. We should stay far away!" After observing for a few moments, one of the Realm King Realm tributors hastily advised.
The shopkeeper was in no rush and instead frowned, "The Demon Clan?"
"Moreover, a powerful Demon Clan? What are they doing here? Although Demon Clans often appear on Chaotic Sky Island, we are on the eastern side of the island..."
After pondering for a few moments, the middle-aged elder ordered, "Divert the fleet slightly, and trouble the two tributors to observe the situation and see if there’s anything to gain!"
"Yes!"
The dazzling blade light sparkled over the sea, but a figure miraculously evaded strike after strike from the Soul Demon.
However, the Soul Demon’s blade grew increasingly fierce, each stroke slicing the sea as if carving it open, momentarily causing a cessation of flow.
The flow of people around Chaotic Sky Island was immense, even five thousand miles away, with numerous fleets, merchant groups, and martial artists passing by. This astonishing commotion attracted many onlookers.
Most onlookers dared not approach too closely, avoiding trouble, for that was none other than the notorious Soul Demon.
Unable to approach too closely, and with the tumultuous waves ahead obscuring the view, one after another, they focused their energy into their ears, listening to the sounds.
Just as the Huiguang’s two tributors approached to listen from afar, the pursued appeared cornered, perilously close to death, when the previously silent Soul Demon suddenly chuckled coldly.
"You can’t escape, hand over the cultivation method and I’ll spare your life!"
"Hand it over, hand over my ancestors! I don’t even know the cultivation method, how could I hand it over, hand over what crap!" The two continued to fight and exchange insults, "Even if you kill me, I can’t hand over that thing!"
"Don’t know? How is that possible?" The Soul Demon’s voice was tinged with astonishment.
"Didn’t you infiltrate their Spirit Medicine Garden for two years, observing each step as they refined the method for cultivating Red Yin Grass? How could you not know how to cultivate Red Yin Grass on a large scale?" questioned the Soul Demon.
This statement promptly left the dozens of distant observers utterly shocked.
The large-scale cultivation method for Red Yin Grass!
Almost no merchant is unaware of the value of Red Yin Grass.
It’s a monopolistic resource; with sufficient quantities, it could sustain a ruins market for spiritual medicines.
Instantly, everyone perked up, ears tuned intently.
"Heavens, though I stayed in their Spirit Medicine Garden for two years, how could those demons trust a Human Clan member! If not for one particular process requiring my help, I wouldn’t have even entered that Spirit Medicine Garden, likely would have been killed!"
"Aside from the process I was involved in, they were constantly wary of me!"
Hearing this, the Soul Demon sneered, "If you weren’t secretly learning the craft, why run away from that Spirit Medicine Garden?"
The pursued was near tears, "I fled because I learned those heartless demons, after mastering my technique, planned to kill me to silence me!"
"Sounds believable! But since you won’t say, then I’ll have no choice but to kill you and conduct a Soul Search, extracting the method for large-scale cultivation of Red Yin Grass from your memory."
"No, really, I didn’t......"
Before the pursued could speak further, the Soul Demon suddenly expelled a blood light, sacrificing Origin Essence Blood to enhance combat power.
In the moment of accelerated movement, the pursued was struck down by the Soul Demon, who then swiftly seized the innate divine soul and, before the surrounding spectators could react, instantly vanished into the sea.
Dozens of distant eavesdropping experts saw the Soul Demon disappear and gathered to investigate for a while, but finding nothing, they dispersed.
Half a quarter-hour later, receiving the report, the Huiguang’s store manager’s expression suddenly changed, "Someone has researched the method of large-scale cultivation of Red Yin Grass, and it’s by the Demon Clan?"
"It seems the market will soon see lower-priced Red Yin Grass, so we can reduce the quantity of Red Yin Grass on our purchase list by half."
"It’s regrettable, yet the cultivation method was discovered by the Demon Clan, whose territory is difficult to infiltrate; otherwise, acquiring that method would bring us immense profits....."
Sighing, the Huiguang’s store manager returned to the cabin somewhat reluctantly.
In almost just three hours after, the news of large-scale cultivation of Red Yin Grass being discovered began to fervently circulate within Chaotic Sky Island.
Instantly, it overshadowed the hot topics of half a month ago of Yany Chi’s manager being killed and the big fire in the eastern part of Chaotic Sky Island.
In less than a day, both inside and outside Chaotic Sky Island, people began discussing this topic.
The shopkeepers and clerks of those merchants gathered together, most frequently discussing the various market changes that would result from the mass appearance of Red Yin Grass, as well as the subsequent chain reactions.
The most anxious one was Sky-reaching.
This news made everyone in Sky-reaching incredibly tense; once a large quantity of Red Yin Grass hit the market, their business would plummet!
However, what could they do!
The cultivation method was developed by the Demon Clan. It’s very difficult to impersonate or infiltrate their clearly divided races. If it’s on the Human Clan side, it’s much more likely that infiltration could obtain the cultivation method!
In just half a month’s time, this news spread from Chaotic Sky Island, carried by caravans to all corners of the Primordial Continent, and even to other Little Worlds.
Of course, the strong individual who initially heard and spread this news sometimes also had doubts.
Isn’t this too coincidental?
They believe that the Soul Demon definitely discovered their presence that day, yet still fought with the one being pursued in front of everyone, revealing such shocking news.
Some even thought that the Soul Demon deliberately pointed this out for them to know.
Occasionally, when discussing, they would mention this doubt to close associates.
But, the trend had already formed.
Others who heard the news weren’t as suspicious, and the rumors even became more exaggerated.
By the time the news reached some Ruins Markets near Chaotic Sky Island, it had already changed to the pursued person throwing out tens of thousands of Red Yin Grass in despair when being killed, deliberately spreading the news.
In the underground caves of Chaotic Sky Island, after listening for several days, Big Ears shook his head tiredly, "Young Master, basically, not many people doubt it anymore.
The rumor, the more it spreads, the more real it seems, each person as if they had seen it with their own eyes. Even Sky-reaching has already formulated response strategies.
For the big clients now coming to purchase Red Yin Grass, not only has there been a certain price discount, but over half of the previous Overlord terms have been canceled to deal with potential future customer loss!"
"That’s good! Here, have one to refresh yourself, after a day’s rest, we will set off!" Ye Zhen smiled and tossed out a Spirit Void Fruit.
Big Ears Nie Ting’s eyes immediately lit up, quickly grabbing the Spirit Void Fruit.
From Ye Zhen’s embrace, a pitiful little head popped out, the Nine-Headed Beast continuously poked out each head, each with a pitiful expression, eyes greedily eyeing the Spirit Void Fruit in Nie Ting’s hands.
If it weren’t for Ye Zhen’s orders, it would have already swallowed Nie Ting along with the fruit in one bite.
The Nine-Headed Beast was also pitiful; the Kitten now had to devour over a hundred Spirit Void Fruits daily, consuming these invaluable Spirit Void Fruits as if it were eating meat.
Big Ears would occasionally be rewarded with one by its master Ye Zhen, but it had never received any.
It had been drooling for over half a month.
Seeing the pitiful look of the Nine-Headed Beast, Ye Zhen gave it a flick on the head, casually flicking out a Spirit Void Fruit, "Alright, seeing how pitiful you are, here’s one for you!"
The Spirit Void Fruit had barely been flicked out before it was swallowed by the Nine-Headed Beast.
Big Ears Nie Ting was stunned; he didn’t know that Ye Zhen’s Cloud Winged Tiger King Kitten needed to consume over a hundred Spirit Void Fruits daily, but seeing Ye Zhen casually bestow such an extraordinary treasure to his demon servant, this generosity was overwhelming.
This made him even more in awe of Ye Zhen!
Ye Zhen’s brow relaxed, the play he had orchestrated with the Demon Marshal’s Avatar over half a month ago successfully spread the rumor about a large-scale cultivation method for Red Yin Grass.
In the future, even if Ye Zhen opened a store to sell Red Yin Grass in large quantities, no one would suspect Ye Zhen of having a connection to a Little World above.
Of course, there would be people interested in the cultivation method of Red Yin Grass, but Ye Zhen shifted the blame to the Demon Clan, saying the Red Yin Grass was traded from them, thus eliminating most of the trouble.
The shadow hanging over Ye Zhen’s heart for days had finally lifted.
As a result, the matter of pursuing Ma Shen, Shopkeeper Ma, was also left aside, letting it go.
However, from beginning to end, Ye Zhen felt that Yany Chi must be eliminated.
If Yany Chi were still alive, such a rumor would only make his suspicions grow, rather than dispel them.
Now, a mere little rumor had resolved this inevitable trouble, removing a major hidden threat.
Next, Ye Zhen planned to put on the agenda the matter of establishing the Golden Passage and setting up his sales channels.
However, before that, Ye Zhen needed to select a suitable island market!

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