Lin Mu got interested in this so called Council of merchants and asked more about it. He discovered that it was composed of ten merchants, some of which represented large and prominent merchant families.

Though there were two names that caught Lin Mu's attention. The first name was none other than the Mu clan which Wu Hei had visited in his younger years. This was also the clan from which Lin Mu had disguised himself as.

The second name that caught his attention was actually an individual merchant who had made his own company and grown it quite a bit. He recently reached the point where he had managed to buy a position in the council by outbidding others.

This individual merchant was actually someone Lin Mu had met before, Jingming Shang!

"Tell me more about the Mu clan and Jingming Shang." Lin Mu asked.

"Hmm… the Mu clan is in a difficult state right now." The waiter spoke.

"Oh? Why's that?" Lin Mu questioned.

"We do not know exactly why, as the matter was suppressed by both the royal family and the other members of the merchant council, but we do know that the Mu clan has fallen greatly in their status.

Even their position in the merchant council is now threatened and could be taken away at any moment." The waiter replied.

Lin Mu asked

ago. The people of the Mu clan suddenly went into hiding, and only a few external workers were left to run their businesses. Of course, this couldn't be kept up as without the guidance of the main members, the businesses started to fall into

even the merchant council wondered if they were okay or not. They sent many letters to the clan, but all of them were unanswered. If it were not for the fact that the Mu clan had several cultivators, the merchants might have even gone to visit them

was not someone we had expected though. The person was the youngest son of the Mu clan patriarch, Mu

his clan and declared that

finding out that the majority of Mu clan's people were killed two years ago in a

words of the waiter. He even doubted the authenticity of his

more about… if it's who I'm thinking it

about Jingming Shang?"

Because there had been an increase in trade in the kingdoms that surround the top sects of the world, the

they can now add another seat to it. Originally, the Mu clan was in disagreement but then they were placated by the other merchants who wanted new positions to be opened. And since the Mu clan was in need

outbid his competition for the tenth seat in the merchant council and was even said

is at the Core Condensation realm and thus not many can afford to oppose him

see. A rather interesting

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