"What's going on? Why am I in this strange state?" Ma Feifei wondered, stroking his chin.
He'd never entered this state before, whether while copying books of Blue Quality or when he copied his first yellow-quality book, Thousand Gold Formulas.
It was a strange state. It felt as if he were listening to a whole host of All Buddhas chanting sutras; it left his mind utterly calm, free of joy or sorrow.
"Could this be some special effect that comes with the Diamond Sutra?" Ma Feifei wondered, staring at the three large characters 'Diamond Sutra' on the paper.
"Whatever. I'll finish copying the book first." Ma Feifei rolled his shoulders, cleared his mind of distractions, and resumed copying the Diamond Sutra.
But before he could put pen to paper, Gongsun Qiong arrived with Zhao Xiaodao.
"What? Three million Spirit Crystals? For me?" Ma Feifei exclaimed, staring at the spatial pouch Zhao Xiaodao handed him.
Ma Feifei knew that Gongsun Qiong had sold the hundred thousand copies of My Fair Princess for two hundred Spirit Crystals each. But he didn't think she'd taken advantage of him. To be fair, the price she'd paid him for those hundred thousand copies of My Fair Princess was already quite high. If he'd sold them himself, the system's hard limit of ten Spirit Crystals per book would have cost him a fortune.
"You should take these back. You earned them yourselves; they don't have much to do with me." After a moment's thought, Ma Feifei returned the Spirit Crystals. What price she sold them for was her business. He'd already made a one-time deal with her, and it wouldn't be right to begrudge her profit now.
"Please accept them, shopkeeper. This is a small token of my gratitude." Gongsun Qiong bowed and spoke earnestly.
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