"Seventy-thirty—that's something belonging to the Divine Court. How can we just split it up and hand it over to you? What's there to look at? The Directorate of Artifact Armaments has its own reasons for doing things!" Jiang Dongxiang wore an expression of disgust at having to keep entangling himself with the qualified candidates. He waved his hand, intending to have the Directorate officials get to work.
He Jingwen frowned from the side. He seemed to feel that the price Jiang Dongxiang had offered this time was too insignificant and might not soothe the crowd. Moreover, the move to have the Directorate officials immediately close the books and settle the accounts would certainly cause trouble. He therefore prepared to question Jiang Dongxiang at once.
Han Shanshan, however, read the situation and stepped forward with a soft snort. "Who knows how difficult this ore is to mine? If I hadn't created this splitting device, and you had continued mining it honestly, it would have taken at least a dozen years to split it into chunks of small raw ore! It was a project no less demanding than crafting a high-grade star box! And how much Dao power would it have consumed? I think anyone with a third-grade Dao body could do something far better than mining Azure-Gold Entwined Jade. Surely no one would take on work where the rewards and effort were so badly out of balance? Now that you've borrowed our labor to mine it, thirty qualified candidates have produced three thousand tons. How much time and effort has that saved?"
Once Han Shanshan said this, Zhu Junyu looked toward all the Directorate officials. Those officials wore troubled expressions, clearly indicating that Han Shanshan was mostly right. The group of guardians also found the seventy-thirty split unacceptable and prepared to