Signing the Contract! The Third Level is a Good Place

"How much counts as meeting the standard? With my strength, even if I refined a Flame Crystal, I still wouldn't be able to purify it to seventy-five percent," Zhang Lingshan said.

Jiang Yan said, "You don't need to purify it to seventy-five percent. Seventy-three percent is enough. Then you hand it to Gu Nanxiang, and she'll purify it to seventy-five percent."

"So that's how it is."

Zhang Lingshan nodded. "In other words, as long as I purify it to seventy-three percent, I'll have met the standard. After that, no matter what problems arise during artifact refining, they have nothing to do with me."

"Correct," Jiang Yan said.

Zhang Lingshan said, "Now I understand. What about the second question?"

Jiang Yan smiled faintly and said, "You have even less need to worry about that. Since terms have been set, a witness is naturally needed. We can ask Steward Ying to serve as witness. As for the deadline, with the strength of you two, five years is more than enough time to pay off the Merit Points. If you still haven't paid them off after five years, then there's no need for you to stay in the Artifact Refining Pavilion. Steward Ying will find you a better place to go."

Hearing this, Zhang Lingshan nodded. "All right, I understand. But if we ask Steward Ying to serve as witness, do we need to pay him?"

"That won't be necessary."

Jiang Yan said, "Steward Ying isn't short of that bit of money, and we don't have money either, only Merit Points that are of no use to Steward Ying. Even if we wanted to pay, we couldn't. Besides, serving as witness is part of Steward Ying's duties to begin with. Otherwise, is he just standing around in a daze as steward?"

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