41 Black Market

As soon as the attendee ran out, another attendee ran in, in a panicked state.

"Bad news! Manager Yu and Manager Zi are fighting!"

"What about?"

"Manager Zi argues that Manager Yu had helped him with something and Manager Yu disagreed with that statement, saying that he was in his office all day. They want you to settle this situation."

"Let them in."

The two managers stumbled in, angry, glaring, and verbally fighting with each other.

"Managers! Settle down. What happened?"

"I- I had a problem with my auction house and needed cash, so I used fake objects to replace some gems, planning to give them to the gem expert as compensation."

The chief executive officer nodded in acknowledgement, further beckoning him to continue.

"Then, I bumped into Manager Zi, who helped me swap out the gems, but took half the gems."

"But like I said, I didn't do that!"

"So now, to silence the customer, you're giving something in the workshop for free?"

"Yes!" Zi manager answered.

The chief executive officer sighed, "I can't help but wonder, is this my karmic retribution to have to deal with you two? Karmic Retribution... Is that what I'm receiving?"

An unnoticeable blue bird flew up and away, heading towards the second auction.

"Ah? Karma*? How catchy. I definitely do like it."

Xuanmei, now in her inn, was cultivating. Broken out of cultivation by the blue bird, she decided to stop at the bottom level Advanced stage.

Having just broke through, she stood up from the floor, opening the door to her room and walking out of the inn.

Deciding to spend some money, she bought some seeds and asked Blue Pheonix to fly and quickly plant them alongside the strawberries.

Seeing a youth scurry between alleyways, Xuanmei's sharp intuition told her it was important. Keeping that in mind, she didn't dismiss the idea of a black market or illegal dealership.

Following the youth, she ended up in a market of sorts. Walking into a face mask store, she looked around at the wares and found some potions.

"Welcome to the black market! Here, we sell illegal face concealing potions. Want some?"

Raising an eyebrow, she casually said, "No thank you. I walked into the wrong store."

Entering the face mask shop just for information, she quickly left the black market upon seeing slaves for sale.

Resurfacing from the black market extremely quickly, she turned to the blue bird on her shoulder.

*因果报应: （因）yin, meaning because, （果）guo, meaning result ［结果］, （报应） baoying, meaning retribution.

So, it basically means because result retribution. (Because [Of this particular action you've done,] result[ing?] in retribution.)

In this case, she is using the last two words, （报应）as her 'nickname'. I'm honestly just calling her 'Karma' because it sounds catchier and cooler, like, come on! Someone agree with me over here! T^T

(A: Do let me know if my explanation is clear enough :P)

Forget what I said about number.5 being filler. Some of them do actually say something of importance (Surprisingly)