Formulating a Plan (3/3)

Every member of the Lian Family who had previously coveted Ying Mengfan and the other two women had been wiped out, so the Lian Family here had no idea that a baleful star had set its sights on them. They cheerfully offered Zhou Heng all sorts of terms, hoping to recruit this young alchemist.

—So young, yet already a five-star alchemist. His future was boundless!

Zhou Heng naturally viewed the Lian Family "in a different light" as well. He politely declined the offers from the other families, yet left the Lian Family with a faint hint, giving them the illusion that they stood a great chance.

Whether they succeeded in recruiting him or not, they certainly had to flatter a five-star alchemist. Zhou Heng's room was piled high with gifts sent by the major families. If not for Spatial Artifacts, there truly would have been nowhere to put them all.

And because Zhou Heng's status had suddenly soared, the Heavenly Treasure Pavilion attached even greater importance to him. Before long, they sent word that the immortal abode Zhou Heng wanted was now in stock.

He had been searching for this all along, intending it to replace the Nine Profound Trial Tower. Naturally, he was overjoyed at the news—but the price made him bare his teeth in shock.

It actually cost eight hundred thousand high-grade immortal stones!

"Young Master Zhou, this immortal abode contains an enormous space. By its true value, if we put it up for auction, the starting price alone would be eight hundred thousand high-grade immortal stones!" said the Heavenly Treasure Pavilion elder.

He was a gaunt old man, a high-level Sunflare Emperor named Liu Qibian. His cultivation realm far surpassed Zhou Heng's, but Zhou Heng possessed the even more dazzling status of a five-star alchemist, so even