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Cloud Sea of Heaven-Reaching, within Sacred Fire Cliff.
Chongguang sat upright, watching the Qi Refining independent cultivator Lu Yang controlled with a Puppet on Strings. Only now did he show some of the attitude of treating him as an equal.
"Fellow Daoist wants a top-grade Spiritual Treasure?"
"Acting sect master is perceptive."
Lu Yang nodded. Since he had decisively abandoned the gains from the Coastal Li Clan, the Celestial Embryo Clone in his plans, one that could act throughout the world in his stead, had yet to materialize.
Yet both the Ancestor of the Yun Family and Xiu Xin True Person were penniless—one from a fallen family, the other an ordinary Guest Elder. Neither carried a top-grade Spiritual Treasure, and Jiangnan was fraught with peril at every step. After careful consideration, Lu Yang felt he should still find a way through the Sacred Sect, whose background he understood.
Quite polite, aren't you?
Chongguang's gaze shifted. Lu Yang's attitude was exceedingly solemn; even his form of address was acting sect master, as though he had placed himself in the position of a loyal servant of the Sacred Sect.
But Chongguang did not believe such a thing.
A loyal servant of the Sacred Sect?
What a joke. Those were not two words that belonged together. Most likely, he was merely making a show of his stance, hoping to gain some benefit from him.
"I can agree to this, Fellow Daoist."
Chongguang's expression did not change as he calmly said, "But how will Fellow Daoist guarantee that you will not go back on your word, take my benefit, and then grow fat on your promise?"
Chongguang had always been direct in his ways. Since Lu Yang had displayed means that even True Lords would struggle to trace to their source, he simply