Gong Yannan had never intended to default on the debt. The Azure Silk Spirit-Grass Gu was genuinely useful to him and worth far more than two thousand Spirit Stones.
The reason he had pawned this Gu insect at Tiantong was that if he pawned it to another Gu Cultivator, he would never get it back.
But his Birth Gu was about to advance, and he had to find somewhere to cultivate in seclusion and seize this opportunity.
Yet if he pawned it to someone who was not a Gu Cultivator, he could not get a good price for it. The "spirit-grass" in Azure Silk Spirit-Grass Gu was meant from the Gu insect's perspective.
Simply put, Gu Cultivators really were rather poor—or rather, not poor exactly. The key was that most of their Spirit Stones had been traded for cultivation resources, or they had cultivation resources and could not bear to trade them for Spirit Stones.
Gu Cultivators were a niche group of cultivators, and their cultivation resources were things one could only stumble across by chance.
It was like residents of major cities in the Blue Star Realm buying rice and flour. They felt that five-pound bags were good enough—those might last them two months. With so many social engagements and so much takeout, they did not even know whether they cooked for themselves once a week.
Well, that was one reason. The second was... buying rice and flour was simply too convenient. The little supermarket downstairs had them.
But those living in the mountains... or on the grasslands certainly would not buy five-pound bags. It was far too inconvenient to buy rice and flour even once.
Gu Cultivators were the same. Having resources in hand was better than anything. Spirit Stones came second.
When Gong Yannan had planned to