Ling Pianran did not want to beat around the bush. She laid her bottom line bare before Lin Xuan.
"Heh..."
"If you'd said that from the start, wouldn't this have been easier? I roughly know what Pure Yang Heaven can offer."
A sharp gleam flashed through Lin Xuan's eyes.
"Just don't go too far!" Ling Pianran could not help reminding him, afraid that Lin Xuan would demand Pure Yang Heaven work for him wholesale.
"Don't worry. Even if you put it that way, you definitely have limits. I understand!"
Lin Xuan's words made Ling Pianran let out a breath of relief.
Without further nonsense, Lin Xuan said bluntly, "I currently need a large number of Near Dao Scriptures. How many can you give me?"
"Pure Yang Heaven's foundational art can be given to you. In addition, Pure Yang Heaven has three Near Dao Scriptures, though they only contain cultivation methods and no profound offensive arts."
Ling Pianran thought for a moment before answering.
"Only four, counting the foundational art?"
Lin Xuan frowned and looked at Ling Pianran in confusion.
It was a top-tier Dao lineage, after all. And this was all it had?
Ling Pianran rolled her eyes. "Do you think Near Dao Scriptures are roadside weeds, found everywhere? Those are resources of foundational heritage."
"Not just Pure Yang Heaven—even among the Nine Provinces' nine great top-tier Dao lineages, counting their foundational arts, they each only have two or three Near Dao Scriptures. And most of them contain only cultivation methods, without profound offensive arts."
"There are actually so few?" Lin Xuan was somewhat shaken.
"What else did you expect?" Ling Pianran shot Lin Xuan a sidelong glance.
"Near Dao Scriptures are already the strongest beneath the Great Dao. After one takes on Dao resonance, cultivation methods are no longer