[Since you had not met Emperor Donghua directly, you naturally did not need to worry about your identity being seen through. Freed of that concern, you became calmer and more adept at negotiating with Lü Chunyi...]
[Lü Chunyi possessed many fine items, but whether they were offensive Dao artifacts, defensive Dao artifacts, or healing treasures with exceptional effects, none of them were what you needed.
For others, these would have made excellent bargaining chips, but you happened to lack none of the three. What you lacked instead were unadorned treasures that increased cultivation speed, or useful functional treasures such as a Spatial Teleportation Matrix.]
[Lü Chunyi had originally been a prodigy from one of the Seventy-two Realms. It had only been a few million years since Emperor Donghua accepted him as a True Disciple, and many old habits he had relied on for survival in a Small World could not be changed overnight. Now that a proper exchange had failed, he fell back into his old ways, beginning to threaten you verbally in an attempt to force you to accept his "persuasion" through the method that had repeatedly worked for him.
The might of an Immortal Emperor was indeed oppressive. In the past, when Lü Chunyi spoke this way to factions lacking confidence in their own strength, they would usually change their expressions and agree. But this time, when he tried the same old trick, he had chosen the wrong person. He had not expected you to refuse to swallow this, much less deliberately mention your fairly good relationship with Ning Ji.]
[Ning Ji had only been accepted by Emperor Donghua as a registered disciple. In this world, registered disciples were not even considered disciples in many people's eyes, utterly incomparable to True Disciples with their immense prestige. Yet Emperor