"Time is limited. Bring out what you promised me."
Yunxi spoke impatiently.
The refined male cultivator did not sit down. Instead, he replied neither servile nor overbearing:
"Your Excellency, we agreed to trade simultaneously. I also need to verify what you have in hand."
Yunxi swept him with an icy glance and said:
"Fine! Put everything on the table, and we'll inspect them at the same time. Don't even think about playing tricks. This is still Jiyun City. Any disturbance will surely draw curious cultivators, and our trade will be void.
I will certainly be able to leave unscathed. As for whether you evil cultivators can walk out of Jiyun City whole after your identities are exposed—that remains to be seen."
The refined man seemed to have long known that their identities as evil cultivators had been discovered by the Sect of Endurance. He raised a hand and said:
"Your Excellency, what you requested is inside the box. Open it and see."
With a sweep of her divine sense, Yunxi discovered a seal on it. Clearly, the other party did not trust her either and was guarding against her, a cultivator of the Sect of Endurance. Her lips curved faintly as she calmly flicked her sleeve, placing a jade box on the table.
The refined man said:
"We'll open the seals at the same time."
Yunxi's jade box was sealed as well.
"Fine."
The two opened their seals in perfect tacit understanding. The refined male cultivator immediately grasped the ice-blue crescent in his hand, a flash of wild joy passing through his eyes.
Yet inside the box Yunxi opened was a Magic Beast egg. It was the size of an olive ball, with patterns that seemed to flow across its surface, resembling slithering snakes. She had not expected that this