Even Han Li, who had always looked down on everyone, grasped the deeper meaning behind the Lingyun Sect's move.
He looked at True Venerable Qu with a strange expression. "Baiqiao really is ruthless enough... Do you want it?"
The corner of Qu Jianlei's mouth twitched, and he spoke after a moment's hesitation. "There's a second choice, right?"
If there were any other choice, he truly did not want to pick this one.
There were no especially complicated reasons. Mainly... he did not want to give Baiqiao what he wanted!
Lingyun did indeed have a second choice. If True Venerable Qu could preach in the Taiyuan Sea, they could lend him a Tier 6 Spirit Vein for five hundred years!
Although it was only for cultivation, five hundred years was enough to witness a Golden Core Realm cultivator go from wailing newborn to natural death from old age.
One had to know, that was a Tier 6 Spirit Vein—a Tier 6!
"Such a vast Taiyuan Sea, and it's only for cultivation?" Qu Jianlei smiled dismissively.
It was not as if he had never seen a Soul-Splitting Level Artifact. Leaving aside the Palace in Han Li's hands, Spirit Mountain was also an avatar of an artifact of the same level.
To give a simple example, if he took the Taiyuan Sea out with him and ran into some danger, would hiding inside not make for an extremely strong defense?
He might not necessarily use such functions, but not granting him the relevant rights—who were they looking down on?
"You're overthinking it," Han Li laughed when he heard that. "They're only lending you a Tier 6 Spirit Vein for cultivation. They never said it was the Taiyuan Sea!"
"Holy shit..." Qu Jianlei stared at Jin Ge in astonishment. "Lingyun has a second Tier