After a brief burst of excitement...
Not only did the several elder clan elders within the cage fail to lose themselves in wild joy, the flames of doubt in their eyes instead spun and surged like deep-sea whirlpools!
Judging others by themselves!
Putting themselves in his shoes!
—If it were they who had painstakingly schemed and laid out every arrangement, only to ultimately hand over, without conditions, a treasure that could help them ascend to the Spirit Transformation Realm to someone else?
That would be the greatest joke under heaven!
Beneath the Heavenly Dao, the weak were meat for the strong. When had anyone ever schemed not for themselves, but to make another's wedding gown?
Unless... there was a hook hidden within the bait, a poison deadlier than arsenic!
How could such "generosity" not make one wary in a hundred different ways?
There had to be a trick behind it!
At this moment.
Sha Minghong's deep eyes, like ancient pools, took in every trace of suspicion and alarm surging within the eyes of those Half-Venerable elder clan elders.
At that!
He seemed not at all displeased. Instead, it was as though he had finally lifted a corner of the true chessboard.
"Of course!"
His voice abruptly turned cold, like ice from the depths of an ocean trench.
"I naturally have conditions."
"What conditions?!"
The several elder clan elders spoke almost in unison, their nerves tightening instantly. The greed stirred by the immense temptation was dragged back by the icy calculations of reality, forming an utterly twisted tension.
Sha Minghong's voice was clear and cold, like invisible chains of rules descending from the sky:
"First, during my rule over the True Dragon Sea, all Innate Gang Sha and Earthly Turbid Qi obtained—
"Regardless of attribute or quantity, they shall all belong