Aside from not wanting to know secrets, what gave Feng Jun the biggest headache was how to collect payment after helping fellow cultivators.
In truth, he did not really want to charge them. The Daoist Order of the Blue Star Plane could be said to be poorer than the last; he could not bear to squeeze them dry.
With that time, he could analyze a few formations in another plane and earn hundreds of Spirit Stones.
Did the entire Daoist Order of Xia Nation even have a hundred Spirit Stones?
But if he helped without charging anything, that would not be right either. Feng's labor was quite valuable—besides, if he dared not charge, his business would surge afterward.
That was definitely unacceptable.
Still, saying he could not obtain suitable compensation did not seem right either. Feng Jun had helped Azure Mountain and Mount Weiyu, gaining Yin Soul Stones and Huahua, both rare treasures. Yet he had bought both with Spirit Stones, which left him feeling somewhat unbalanced.
Of course, if they were talking about the actual prices of those two things, he had acquired them at bargain-bin prices.
In any case, his feelings were quite complicated. In the end, he sighed. "An Emergence from Dust Stage... this secret realm is far from simple."
"I thought so too." Seeing that he had not refused, Guan Shanyue could not help secretly letting out a long breath.
Then she began explaining her difficulties. "For hundreds of years, the spiritual energy between heaven and earth has been dwindling. By now, it is nearly gone. Cinnabar Cloud Heaven has not produced a major Qi Refining Stage cultivator in over six hundred years, much less an Emergence from Dust Stage..."
At this point, she glanced at Feng Jun and continued, "The other branches of the Daoist