"Eh?"
('')
"J-just two spirit stones?"
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Annie was even more surprised. She hadn't expected it to be such a small thing!
And what surprised her even more was that these people had brought so little money with them on such a long journey.
In Divine Capital, two spirit stones would probably only be enough to buy her one decent meal... And now, these five or six people had only a dozen or so between them... No wonder they couldn't even afford one person's "tuition."
Looking at it that way, there had been a good reason for teasing them earlier and then tricking that pretty young "Sister Guo" into keeping her eyes open when choosing a partner.
How could a group of people who couldn't even scrape together twenty spirit stones expect to win over some young lady?
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"!!"
"What do you mean, 'just two spirit stones'?"
Hearing Annie say that, the scar-faced "talent" surnamed Zhao was stunned. Then, growing a little angry, he interjected in a muffled voice:
"Little girl!"
"You're from a wealthy family, so you don't know how hard ordinary people have it. I don't blame you for that, but two spirit stones really isn't a small sum!"
"Exchanged for Heavenly Court gold coins, that's a full twenty thousand gold yuan!"
"That's nearly twenty thousand taels of gold!"
"Where we come from, that would be enough for a family of more than ten to live in luxury, with fine clothes, good food, a grand house, and fine horses, for the rest of their lives!"
"Even for cultivators like us, as long as we don't chase after rare materials, pills, or magical artifacts that cost spirit stones, two spirit stones would be enough to live and cultivate fairly comfortably for several years."
"Who could have guessed