The moment the Carefree Granary appeared.
The Sect Leader, seated within Four Seasons Hall, leisurely brewing tea over a Red Clay Stove and occasionally picking up a few peanuts and roasted golden-brown sweet potatoes to eat, froze at once.
"Eh."
He looked toward the Jade Tablet beside him. Around the two characters "Li Ye" on its surface, golden light belonging to merit was flashing madly.
"What extraordinary thing has this child made again that can affect the sect's fortune?"
Though the Sect Leader seemed somewhat helpless when he said this, he truly was helpless.
As Li Ye's abilities became ever more apparent, he increasingly regretted not taking a stroll through Returning Shore Market himself back then.
Instead, he had let that boy Su Xing find such an uncut jade for nothing.
He thought for a moment and stared intently at that shining radiance—every flash meant one or two taels of merit descending.
The flashes grew faster and faster, until they finally stopped after flashing a full thirty-five thousand times.
In other words, according to the Four Seasons Jade Tablet's assessment, this brand-new species could receive a reward of thirty-five thousand taels of merit!
How much merit did the sect receive for discovering a new species?
One hundred taels!
Just what incredible thing had this boy created?
At that moment, a gentle voice, neither male nor female, sounded out.
"I'll go take a look."
Compassionate Embrace's voice vanished in an instant, and even the merit that had been pulsing was temporarily sealed away—as though it did not want Li Ye to learn so quickly that such an enormous sum of merit had come his way.
Why?
For the first time, the Sect Leader found himself somewhat unable to understand.
"This is... a granary?"
Even in Yuan Yan's far-from-shallow understanding, a