By Blue Star people's logic, the Earth Spirit was indeed right.
The more specialized the work, the higher the price. Time saved had to be converted into money as well. There was nothing wrong with that logic.
However, Feng Jun's thinking was not limited to Blue Star people's logic. "You know I've achieved Core Embrace, right?"
"I know," the Earth Spirit answered honestly. Its contractor was now on the same level as it, and his control over it had strengthened. It had to restrain itself, or else he would have many more ways to torment it. "But you can't just make me work. You have to let me eat my fill."
Feng Jun laughed in anger. "I've never been stingy, but I've already achieved Core Embrace, and you're still asking for an outrageous price. That's rather meaningless... You can't possibly want me to feel like I've achieved a False Core, right?"
The Earth Spirit sensed that something was wrong, but it still forced itself to hold firm. "I don't mean that. If Spirit Stones are plentiful, the Spirit Vein can be formed in five years! If you pinch every penny, it'll take twenty or thirty years."
Feng Jun sighed faintly. "Looks like I need to change the contract. Do you think it's really that difficult for me to learn what you're thinking?"
He had previously contracted the Earth Spirit across a level gap—and it had been a major realm gap at that. Ordinary people simply could not have done it.
But with the Big Shot's guidance, he had finally brought it under control through an extremely complicated method... If he remembered correctly, he had formed hand seals three hundred and sixty-one times.
The contract had succeeded, but only barely. He could command and punish the Earth Spirit, and could even