"Awaiting your orders, sir!"
"We've been here for over three months without slacking for even half a day. We've given them every courtesy, and the two little masters from the Lotus Sect have seen it all. If we stay any longer, Ice Wheel Bodhi Temple simply isn't worth it!"
"Exactly!"
"Ice Wheel Bodhi Temple should have prepared a qi-token beforehand. Earl Xingyi is no ordinary man. We've already done our utmost."
The left and right attendants all voiced their agreement.
Only the two monks rolled their prayer beads between their fingers, wanting to speak but stopping themselves. In the end, they said nothing.
That was the truth of it. They could not persuade them otherwise, nor were they qualified to demand greater terms on behalf of the Great Monk at the temple.
Seeing everyone agree, Ba Er Si Tai gave a slight nod.
He had wanted to leave ever since the weather turned cold at the start of October.
As the dignified Northern Territory Eagle, one of the Eight Beasts, he had originally been one of the key forces stationed at Shuo Fang Platform and confronting Heyuan Prefecture. Yet now he had pulled away from that duty and spent months searching aimlessly across Blue Lake. It was an enormous and utterly pointless "waste."
There had only been two reasons he had agreed to come.
First, Ice Wheel Bodhi Temple had offered one and a half million taels of silver, a thread of superior Calamity Qi, promised to hold three grand dharma assemblies, cover all combat and living expenses, and additionally grant him a blood eye of Daheitian. Even if they failed, he would still receive five hundred thousand taels of silver and be allowed to take the Daheitian blood eye.
Second, if they truly succeeded and sank Earl Xingyi's corpse