After all, every cultivator who lived on the Endless Sea knew how precious the Dao-Merging Grounds were.
Even with the Southern Sea Dragon Palace's vast holdings, it would not have a spare Dao-Merging Ground to give an outsider like him.
Besides, the one coming to marry his daughter was merely the Turtle Chancellor, who held some standing in the Southern Sea Dragon Palace. He was not the Eighth Prince they had spoken of before, who had already entered the Tribulation-Crossing Pseudo-Immortal Realm.
"Alas!"
Human greed was a snake trying to swallow an elephant. Cui Hao let out a long sigh.
He lingered no longer in the empty Main Hall of Azure Underworld Cloud City's City Lord's Mansion. His figure flashed, and he followed Lu Kexun toward his own residence, not far from the mansion.
When the two appeared again, they stood before the Azure Underworld Cloud City Soldiers, whose expressions were grim.
Lu Kexun gave the banner in the Red-Robed Turtle-Shelled Elder's hand a complicated look, then dipped his chin in a cursory greeting.
As for the Southern Sea Dragon Palace's banner, he made no move to take it. Nor did he call on the Azure Underworld Cloud City Soldiers behind him to accept it.
Everything he had done with the Southern Sea Dragon Palace before had been conducted in secret.
The soldiers of Azure Underworld Cloud City and the deacons stationed there by the sects of the Nine Sons of the Endless Sea knew he had close dealings with the Southern Sea Dragon Palace.
But without evidence, they had no good way to deal with an Inner Sect Elder at Great Vehicle Perfection.
If he took the banner now, however, his relationship with the Southern Sea Dragon Palace would be confirmed.
It would also confirm that he, a Sunshine