Everything Was Free

"Hiss!"

"What a bold claim!"

"Old man, don't think that just because you're so old, no one in Qinghe Commandery City can keep you in check!"

"There are heavens beyond the heavens and people beyond people. Qinghe Commandery City is full of crouching tigers and hidden dragons!"

"One careless step could ruin the reputation you've built over the years!"

The townspeople and cultivators gathered around had spent years growing up in an environment shaped by high-ranked cultivation families. They had seen all manner of storms and upheavals.

But when had they ever heard or seen an outsider as brazen as Gray Robe Jiang Lao Jiang Haifei of the Xinghua Village Meng Family?

"Heh! I don't know whether I'm making a bold claim, but I do know that no one here, at this very moment, can cure the spirit plant this young lady brought!"

Gray Robe Jiang Lao Jiang Haifei nodded. "I'm not joking. The spirit plant this young lady brought is called Stardrop Grass. It's a first-tier spirit plant that slows the spread of a cultivator's injuries. I recognize the insect blight afflicting it too. But for the sake of the Xinghua Village Meng Family's future development, I can't reveal the cure. I won't stop anyone else from revealing it, though. If someone here knows it, by all means, speak up!"

Gray Robe Jiang Lao Jiang Haifei was gambling. He was betting that high-ranked cultivation families such as the Sixth-Rank Cultivation Family Baili Family and the Fifth-Rank Cultivation Family Tianhai Family had a cure.

But cutting off someone's path to wealth was like killing their parents.

Revealing the cure for spirit-plant insect blight to everyone present would all but guarantee that he offended Qinghe Commandery City's high-ranked cultivation families.

That was a burden no family faction or individual cultivator could