Chapter 166: High-Grade Spirit Pendant (1/2)

”Long Wang, come with me.”

Not wasting her time, Xiao Fang obediently followed the Supreme Elder away.

'It seems I'll have to put my plans on hold for now,' Xiao Fang thought.

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The Supreme Elder took Xiao Fang back to the place where Jiang Mei registered him as her direct disciple. That's when it dawned on him. He assumed she brought him here because they were struggling to find his master.

Back then, Jiang Mei put him down as 'Da Long', but when asked for his name during the exam, he said 'Long Wang'. Although keeping track of names made things easier, there were more secure ways of proving who was registered under what elder.

Xiao Fang followed their instructions and let them check his spirit mark signature, then they went back to find the elder that matched him in their files. Xiao Fang didn't have to wait long for them to figure out who his master was. This was standard procedure for everyone that passed the secondary test in the exam. They only decided to start with Xiao Fang first since there was more confusion as to who his master was.

The elder that checked him came back from the back room with a nameplate in her hands.

”So, it's Elder Jiang Mei. She was still a disciple not too long ago,” the Supreme Elder commented when she saw the nameplate.

”Are we done here?” Xiao Fang asked the inner court elder behind the front desk.

”Yes. I'll notify Jiang Mei that you passed the exam and she'll be accommodated into the inner court,” the inner court elder said.

Just as Xiao Fang was about to leave the Supreme Elder grab his arm and took him somewhere where they could be alone.

'She's fast,' Xiao Fang thought.

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Since the Matriarch was supposed to return to the sect today and announce to everyone that Li Lian was her direct disciple, the Supreme Elder wanted to inform her that Li Lian had a fiancé before that happened.

”Tell me the truth, are you and Li Lian really engaged?” the Supreme Elder asked.

”Did you already forget our agreement?” Xiao Fang said.

”No, but this is urgent.”

Xiao Fang paused to think.

After learning about all the things he could get in the inner court he greedily started to think about what he could get from this Supreme Elder.

”Alright, but I want something in return.”

”Name your price,” she immediately replied.

Xiao Fang knew that the elders didn't carry around merit points. Instead he asked for the most expensive thing he could remember from the tour he was recently on.

”I want a high-grade spirit pendant.”

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Before he could enter the Ancestral Training Grounds, Xiao Fang had to buy a special pendant, the same kind of pendant he used during the exam. The only problem was the price.

What he used during the exam was a Low-grade spirit pendants, but even that was already a bit expensive

Small-grade pendants = 5,000 merit points.

Medium-grade pendants = 25,000 merit points.

High-grade pendants = 100,000 merit points.

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The Supreme elder furrowed her brows. She acted unwilling so that he wouldn't ask for more. She was even thinking about negotiating, but she didn't want to risk it when something like that was well within her means to get.

Although a high-grade spirit pendant was an extremely valuable commodity that not even Core Court elders could easily get their hands on, as a Supreme Elder it wasn't a problem at all.

”Alright, but you have to tell me your relationship with Li Lian in detail.”

Xiao Fang thought he was making an unreasonable demand and was planning to work his way down from there, the last thing he expected was for her to agree to it so soon.

She reached into her spatial pouch then gave him what he wanted. Xiao Fang was hardly ever excited about anything, but sensing her take it out made his jaw drop.

She put it in his hands then he began to inspect it. Xiao Fang could immediately tell that it was real because the profound feeling he was getting from it was something that couldn't be faked. Furthermore, the inscription engraved on the back was far more complicated than the one he used during the exam.

Xiao Fang noticed that it was slightly glowing, meaning that there was some Illusory qi left in there, so he extracted a small amount of it and let it flow into his dantian.

Xiao Fang was flabbergasted. The qi was so pure. He knew even cultivating a small amount of it would raise his cultivation by leaps and bounds, just how fast would he be able to cultivate with this thing, he wondered.

After confirming that it was real, Xiao Fang put the high-grade spirit pendant away, then told the Supreme Elder what she wanted to know.

”Li Lian is a beautiful girl, so we often did the thing between men and women.”

”...” the Supreme Elder was speechless.