At last!
Ignoring Lin Daiyu, Tanchun, Zijuan, and Xueyan's suggestions and objections, Annie stubbornly and high-handedly purchased the finest unnamed floating-island mansion in the Heavenly Court Real Estate Bureau—the entire island cluster.
Then, after completing the handover procedures, the group immediately boarded a celestial vessel and flew toward their new home.
There had actually been a minor incident during the transaction: a certain troublesome little girl immortal had simply tossed out a storage bag filled to the brim with tiny spirit-stone beads, each worth one qian, piled up into a veritable mountain!
After all, the twenty-two floating-island residences involved a major transaction worth over a million taels of spirit stones. Converted into those tiny one-qian spirit-stone beads, that amounted to more than ten million of them. How could the Heavenly Court Real Estate Bureau staff ever have seen anything like that?
In the end, the shopkeeper at the Real Estate Bureau proved fairly quick-witted. Since they did not want to count them themselves, he simply called over Heaven and Earth Bank employees to handle the deposit.
Thus, the tasks of counting the spirit stones, tallying them, and testing their spiritual energy concentration were naturally shifted onto the gloomy-faced Heaven and Earth Bank employees, while the Real Estate Bureau staff only needed to complete Annie and the others' handover and registration procedures in advance.
Although the Heaven and Earth Bank staff said it would take at least ten days to tally the exact amount of those enormous quantities of spirit-stone beads, the Real Estate Bureau still completed the relevant handover procedures for Annie and the others ahead of time.
After all, they were not remotely worried that Annie and the others might run away with the floating islands—and in any case, there was no way the floating islands could run away—so