The atmosphere in the hall froze for a moment.
The high-bridged Westerner smiled faintly and said to the scarred man, "If you can't make up your mind, you can go ask the person behind you. I can wait."
The scarred man's gaze turned dangerous, but in the end he held himself back and turned to glance at his companion.
His companion immediately rose and went upstairs to make a call.
A few minutes later, the companion came downstairs and used force-transmitted speech to say a few words to the scarred man.
The scarred man looked across at them. "We can give you ten more cultivation methods for high-grade Dao Foundations, along with ten top-tier martial arts. As for the goods, we want twice the agreed amount."
The high-bridged Westerner across from him shook his head.
"No. We want a cultivation method for a top-grade Dao Foundation, and a peerless martial art."
The odds of successfully constructing an ordinary Dao Foundation were very low. A Martial Dao Master was the limit.
The odds of successfully constructing a high-grade Dao Foundation were much higher, and its limit could reach Grandmaster.
The limit of a top-grade Dao Foundation was Martial Saint!
As for peerless martial arts, they involved Dao Force. Even Grandmasters would use them.
Thus, whether it was a cultivation method for a top-grade Dao Foundation or a peerless martial art, both were closely guarded secrets of many supreme powers, worth cities of gold! Apart from the Buddhist and Daoist schools, the One Tower and One Pavilion, the Three Mountains, Four Sects, and Seven Great Families, and those twenty top sects, only a handful of other sects and the imperial court possessed cultivation methods for top-grade Dao Foundations.
Even a marquis had no qualifications to exchange for such a level of cultivation