"If it is a map to True Spirit Gold, then it can be exchanged."
"However, True Spirit Gold is such a rare marvel. A map recording its location is likewise priceless. Is Sound Valley truly willing to hand it over?"
Lu Yunxiao suppressed his slight surprise, his expression calming as he asked with a smile at the corner of his mouth.
"Young Master Lu, you jest. This map to True Spirit Gold is indeed incomparably precious, but it is not something Sound Valley can lay claim to."
Xiao Qinghuang said with a bitter smile.
Sound Valley naturally knew just how precious the map to True Spirit Gold was.
After all, it concerned the legendary first-ranked treasure on the Spirit Gold Ranking. Naturally, it was immensely tempting.
But in Sound Valley's hands, this thing was nothing more than a burden.
Sound Valley simply did not have the ability to use it to find True Spirit Gold.
After all, the Zither Saint's experience was proof enough.
Moreover, the place where the map recorded True Spirit Gold to be located was simply too perilous. It was absolutely not somewhere ordinary people could set foot.
It would be better to take it out. First, it could preserve the Zither Saint.
The Zither Saint was Sound Valley's stabilizing pillar and its only Half-Saint-level expert.
Sound Valley could not afford to lose this guardian.
Second, it was also meant as a gesture of goodwill toward Cloud Gate. Offering up the map to True Spirit Gold would allow them to establish a good relationship with Cloud Gate.
If they could obtain some protection from Cloud Gate, Sound Valley would naturally have no worries.
Thus, while it appeared that Sound Valley was losing out by trading the map to True Spirit Gold for the bodies of the Nine