At Sima Bo's words, Qin Fengming's expression changed as well. After a brief pause, he knelt once more on the stone floor and said:
"Master, this was this disciple's fault. Although I was confused at first, after pondering it in secret, I came to understand the painstaking efforts of several Masters. I was young and inexperienced. Although I did not return to the sect on time, while traveling through the Cultivation World, I never forgot that I was a disciple of Manghuang Mountain. Heaven and earth can bear witness to that.
"Fengming has never forgotten the kindness of the five Masters, who devoted themselves to nurturing me. These are the Spirit Stones I obtained over the several decades I spent traveling through the Cultivation World by using the skills taught by the sect. I now present them to the five Masters, to repay even one ten-thousandth of your kindness."
As Qin Fengming spoke, he placed the twenty storage rings in his hand on the stone table.
Faced with Qin Fengming's action, Sima Bo could not help but tremble. After his divine sense swept over them, his expression changed again.
"Each of these storage rings contains five million Spirit Stones. How did you obtain so many Spirit Stones?"
Although Nascent Soul cultivators possessed considerable wealth, having more than ten million Spirit Stones already counted as an upper-middle-level fortune. Yet this Core Formation junior cultivator before him had casually produced one hundred million Spirit Stones.
Even Sima Bo, the Supreme Elder of Manghuang Mountain, was greatly shocked by such a thing.
"These Spirit Stones were obtained while this disciple was traveling. I used my spare time to continuously refine top-grade spirit artifacts and early-stage top-grade talismans, then exchanged them for the stones. Every single one was obtained fairly, without any plundering. Master,