Lan Shi'er raised her head, her fair face blooming with an irrepressibly radiant smile, her eyes curving into crescents.
"The royal family's higher-ups just sent me word. They want the two of us to go back and receive the royal family's training, without having to pay any price!"
"Without having to pay any price?"
A flicker of surprise passed through Jiang Ping An's eyes. His brows drew together slightly, and he found it hard to believe.
Previously, the condition Azure King had proposed for training him was that he completely submit to the Lan Clan Royal Family, become their dependent, and, upon reaching a certain realm, allow them to extract the Hell of Illusory Suffering inheritance from his soul.
Yet now, they were claiming he would not have to pay any price?
This was clearly rather impossible. It did not fit Azure King's character of placing profit above all else.
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Lan Shi'er seemed to see through his doubts and hurriedly explained further, "Although you won't have to pay such harsh prices as before, it isn't entirely free training either."
"The royal family means to open all its internal cultivation sites and resource channels to you, Uncle. But if you want to actually use those places and obtain resources, you'll still need to pay the corresponding fees yourself."
Not just anyone could use the royal family's core cultivation sites. Some top-tier locations could not be entered even with money; one needed a specific identity and level of authority.
For example, the Scripture Pavilion, which housed countless supreme divine arts and forbidden arts; the Dao Lecture Hall, where one could listen to top-tier experts of the royal family explain profound Great Dao Rules; as well as certain special secret realms and trial grounds that could rapidly increase battle power and temper