Fire Radiance True Person, the Pseudo-Core Realm Third Rank alchemist, was also exceedingly humble at this moment. He bowed to Ling Pengshan, who was at the Foundation Establishment Ninth Layer, then took a medicine bottle from his Storage Bag and handed it to Ling Pengshan as he spoke.
"Fellow Daoist Pengshan, when that Golden Core Realm Wind Shadow Peng of your clan held its Golden Core grand banquet some time ago, I happened to be refining a batch of pills and was unable to leave seclusion to offer my congratulations."
"This bottle contains a Third Rank Low Grade Gathering Yuan Pill that I refined. Consider it my belated congratulatory gift. I also wish that Wind Shadow Peng of your clan may enjoy an evergreen Great Dao."
Ling Pengshan, a steady-looking middle-aged man, heard this and gave the kind-faced Fire Radiance True Person a neither warm nor cold glance before accepting the bottle of Gathering Yuan Pills. Expressionless, he offered a faint word of thanks.
"You are too courteous, Fellow Daoist. I will certainly convey your congratulations to the Wind Shadow Peng of my clan."
In his early years, when Ling Pengyun's spirit beast, the Wind Shadow Peng, had still been too weak to help Ling Pengyun, he had lent the spirit beast to Ling Pengshan and had him bring it to Turtle Spirit Island to establish a branch.
Thus, Ling Pengshan also publicly claimed that the Wind Shadow Peng was his spirit beast.
Afterward, Ling Pengshan pondered for a moment before speaking.
"I agree to Fellow Daoist's request to lease spirit veins."
He then took out a sea chart of the Hillock Minor Sea Region, pointed to the hundred spirit veins within a region in the northern part of the Hillock Minor Sea Region, and said,
"This territory shall belong