Chapter 71. Planning for the future.
Chapter 71: 71. Planning for the future.
After remaining in the embrace for a while longer, Lin Zhaoyue reluctantly stepped back.
She looked at Lin Xuan for a brief moment before reaching into her storage pouch.
A dark green beast core quietly appeared in her palm.
It was about the size of her palm and faint strands of snake qi slowly flowed within it.
Lin Zhaoyue held it out with both hands.
"Father. I have something for you."
Lin Xuan looked at the beast core before raising an eyebrow.
"This is a Snake-type beast core."
Lin Zhaoyue nodded.
"Yes, I found it while I was away. You should absorb it."
Lin Xuan accepted the beast core and immediately felt a faint sense of familiarity from it.
His Snake Martial Spirit even stirred slightly within his dantian, as though attracted to the beast core.
Seeing him accept it, Lin Zhaoyue quietly let out a sigh of relief.
In truth...
She felt somewhat embarrassed.
Before returning, she had thought this beast core would make the perfect gift for her father.
After all, Snake-type beast cores were extremely compatible with his Martial Spirit.
But now...
After receiving a movement technique and two hundred small Pristine Spirit Stones...
This little beast core suddenly felt insignificant.
Compared to everything her father had just given her... It was hardly worth mentioning.
Even so, Lin Xuan smiled warmly as he carefully put the beast core away.
"Thank you, I like it very much."
Lin Zhaoyue looked into his eyes for a moment before the hesitation on her face slowly disappeared.
A bright smile bloomed across her face once again.
"I’m glad you like it, Dad."
After chatting for a little while longer, Lin Zhaoyue finally stood up.
"I’ll leave you to your cultivation, Father."
Lin Xuan smiled and nodded.
"Don’t stay up too late."
Lin Zhaoyue grinned mischievously.
"I’ll try."
With that, she waved goodbye before quietly leaving the courtyard.
Lin Xuan watched her disappear into the night before returning to his cultivation room.
He took out the Cloud Chasing Technique Manual and sat down cross-legged.
There was still much for him to learn.
Soon, the room once again fell into complete silence.
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Meanwhile, Lin Zhaoyue made her way toward the Treasury Hall.
Even though night had already fallen, the hall remained brightly lit.
Clan members continued coming and going, reporting accounts and exchanging contribution points.
Upon seeing her, the guards respectfully bowed.
"Young Miss."
Lin Zhaoyue smiled and nodded before walking inside.
It did not take long before she found Su Qinglan buried beneath a mountain of account books.
The moment Su Qinglan looked up and saw Lin Zhaoyue, a smile appeared on her tired face.
"Young Miss, what brings you here so late?"
Without saying a word, Lin Zhaoyue placed a jade bottle onto the desk.
"Elder Su. Please take a look. I’d like to exchange this for contribution points."
Su Qinglan curiously opened the bottle and the next moment, her pupils contracted.
Inside rested ten Body Tempering Pills.
Nine of them were Peak Grade.
The remaining one...
Radiated a medicinal fragrance so pure that it instantly stood apart from the others.
Lin Zhaoyue rested her chin on her hand and smiled.
"Before you evaluate them, let me tell you about them first. That is a genuine Pure Body Tempering Pill, you won’t find another one like it."
Su Qinglan involuntarily swallowed.
Forget the Pure Body Tempering Pill...
Even the nine Peak Grade Body Tempering Pills alone were treasures that would make countless cultivators fight over them.
As for the Pure Pill...
She had only ever read about such a thing in ancient records.
Never in her wildest dreams had she expected to see one lying quietly on her own desk.
Su Qinglan carefully picked up the Pure Body Tempering Pill.
She did not even dare apply the slightest force, afraid she might accidentally damage it.
After examining it from every angle, she slowly put it back into the jade bottle.
She looked at Lin Zhaoyue with an unusually serious expression.
"Young Miss... where did these pills come from?"
Lin Zhaoyue smiled mysteriously.
"A secret."
Su Qinglan sighed helplessly as she had expected that answer.
After a moment of silence, she tapped her fingers lightly against the desk.
"A low-grade Body Tempering Pill is worth five contribution points. A Peak Grade pill is worth considerably more. As for a Pure Pill..."
She paused for several breaths before shaking her head.
"There is simply no precedent, no one has ever offered one to the clan treasury before."
Lin Zhaoyue smiled.
"Then let’s create the precedent. I won’t ask for an outrageous price but I do want a fair one."
Su Qinglan looked at the ten pills once more before making her decision.
"The nine Peak Grade pills will be valued at twenty contribution points each. That makes one hundred and eighty contribution points."
She gently pushed the jade bottle containing the Pure Pill toward the center of the desk.
"As for this one... I’ll value it at two hundred contribution points. That brings the total to three hundred and eighty contribution points."
Lin Zhaoyue gently shook her head.
"Elder Su. I think you’re underestimating its value."
Su Qinglan raised an eyebrow.
"Oh?"
Lin Zhaoyue leaned forward slightly.
"I can promise you one thing. If the price satisfies me... I’ll continue bringing more in the future."
Those simple words immediately caused Su Qinglan’s breathing to falter.
More?
She stared at Lin Zhaoyue, trying to discern whether the young girl was joking.
Her expression, however, remained perfectly calm.
Su Qinglan slowly leaned back in her chair.
After several moments of consideration, she smiled.
"In that case... I’ll make an exception. The nine Peak Grade pills will remain at twenty contribution points each.
But the Pure Pill... I’ll value it at five hundred contribution points. The total comes to six hundred and eighty contribution points."
She looked directly into Lin Zhaoyue’s eyes.
"On one condition. When you have more, the Treasury Hall gets the first opportunity to purchase them."
Lin Zhaoyue’s lips curled into a satisfied smile.
"Deal."