Though it wasn't very polite, Lu Yang genuinely felt that Grandpa Meng's cultural level might not be much higher than Man Gu's.
They might even be neck and neck.
"Then Meng Poci and Meng Poli... Never mind, I won't ask." Lu Yang figured he should at least show some respect to his elder and not ask something so discourteous. Otherwise, Old Meng might let too many secrets slip and get kicked out of the Meng Household.
"What's that place?" Lu Yang pointed at a room covered in wards, with a Meng elder guarding the entrance. It looked like a forbidden area.
"The place where we keep the IOUs."
"My dad told me that if all those IOUs could be redeemed, they'd be enough to buy half the Imperial City."
Lu Yang sucked in a sharp breath. No wonder it was a forbidden area. It wouldn't be overkill to station any number of guards here.
"It's not just IOUs, either. Our Meng Household has a divine ability called 'Borrowed Arts.' When cultivators at Body Integration or above borrow money from us, they have to leave behind an IOU and lend us one of their techniques."
"Our household copies that technique onto paper. If we get into a fight, we can recreate the other person's move."
"That's amazing." It was probably a unique ability of the Meng Household. Lu Yang had never heard of anyone else who could do that.
Even the Undying Fairy shook her head, saying she'd never heard of it.
Meng Potian, Old Ma, and the chief steward, Xu You, gathered in a side room for a drink. The three brothers hadn't been together in nearly six years.
Old Ma lounged lazily in a wooden chair, using magic to float the grass from his plate into his mouth.