The next day, Peng Yue delivered the Spirit Stones.
Along with the previously promised thirty thousand Spirit Stones for taking first place, she brought another forty thousand for the estimated value of the Demon Snake materials and Demon Cores. Altogether, it came to seventy thousand Low-grade Spirit Stones.
Some of that was definitely an overestimate. Liang Ji had also roughly calculated the value of the Demon Snake materials and Demon Cores from the creatures they had hunted during the exam. Since most had been killed by a hail of arrows, spears, and axes, the materials were in tatters, and their sale price would certainly take a serious hit. Getting sixty thousand Low-grade Spirit Stones for them would already be a good result.
Even if Peng Yue had connections that let her sell them for more, she probably couldn't get seventy thousand Spirit Stones.
With a fifty-fifty split, he would have received only a little over thirty thousand Spirit Stones at most. Her giving him forty thousand outright meant she was very satisfied with his service and was tipping him a little.
She also hoped they could keep working together.
Meanwhile, the rewards from the City Education Bureau and the school had also arrived.
Liang Ji had placed tenth in the city in this Second Mock Exam, earning a direct reward of twenty thousand Low-grade Spirit Stones from the City Education Bureau.
Peng Yue, who had taken first place, received a whopping fifty thousand Low-grade Spirit Stones. Second and third place each received thirty thousand, while those who ranked fourth through tenth received twenty thousand apiece.
Those who ranked tenth through twentieth, twentieth through fiftieth, and so on also received rewards of varying amounts.
The school rewarded Peng Yue with thirty thousand Low-grade Spirit Stones and Liang Ji with twenty thousand.