Lin Po and Lin Nue, the two brothers, put forward more than a dozen different terms.
Their reasoning was straightforward: Lin Qi, the most outstanding, most vital descendant of the main bloodline, and the one most valued by all the elders, had been cheated by the Guardian God Palace. Therefore, the Guardian God Palace had to compensate the Lin Family for all the wealth, manpower, effort, and affection it had invested in him over the years.
Although Lin Qi felt embarrassed on behalf of the two old fellows—when he had been drifting alone through the streets of Berely, wracking his brains to scrape together a few copper coins, he had never felt much of the family's investment of wealth, manpower, effort, or affection—this did not stop the Lin brothers from opening their mouths like lions and demanding all manner of conveniences from the Guardian God Palace.
They did not directly demand compensation in money or other goods, but they required the Guardian God Palace to grant the Lin Family all kinds of favorable conditions. These even included the right to spend vast sums each year to purchase certain secret medicines from the Guardian God Palace, as well as certain rare spiritual treasures of heaven and earth controlled by the Miro Divine Cult.
These were things possessed only by the Miro Divine Cult or the Guardian God Palace anywhere under heaven. Yet through Lin Qi, the Lin Family had smoothly breached an opening and obtained from Lady Dark Lotus countless terms sufficient to double the speed of the Lin Family's development.
Nor did Lady Dark Lotus yield because of Lin Po and Lin Nue's forcefulness. She likewise obtained their promise that whenever the Guardian God Palace—and Lady Dark Lotus in particular—had need, she and the Guardian God Palace would receive the