After Qu Jianlei and Han Li received the news, they said they were unable to get away and had Beiliu come in person, while guaranteeing his safety.
Two True Venerables came along with Beiliu, one from the Shangshan Realm and the other from the merchant alliance.
The merchant alliance's True Venerable was a slightly burly middle-aged man, who gave off much the same feeling as Min Ning. His name was Wan An.
True Venerable Wan An looked fairly amiable on the surface, but without losing any dignity, carrying the air of someone long used to being in a position of power.
By rights, he should have been the one calling the shots, but Beiliu stated that he would be responsible for communication.
Because he believed he was better at taking offense, while the two on the other side clearly had bad tempers.
The merchant alliance's general meaning was that they were willing to pay twice the purchase cost of the Tier 5 Spirit Vein in compensation.
Together with the spirit vein True Venerable Qu had already occupied, that could be counted as triple compensation.
What was rare was that the merchant alliance was actually able to confirm that the two True Venerables' abodes had fallen into True Venerable Houde's hands.
However, that was not strange either. After all, it was such a large merchant alliance; having some special methods was only normal.
Beiliu stated that there were still quite a few of the merchant alliance's supplies in the abodes, but they were giving up on pursuing those as well, which counted as a certain show of goodwill.
But the amount of compensation was relatively large, so they could only pay half up front. The remaining half would be paid slowly as subsequent cooperation unfolded.
That was right. The merchant alliance