"What does 'a great treasure' mean?"
Hearing the shout from outside the hall, Zhang Qiuren frowned slightly and looked at his third uncle beside him in confusion.
But he was not the only one.
The old man seated beside him was equally surprised.
After discussing for so long, not only had the other side not haggled over the Annual Tribute, they had even opened by offering them some great treasure?
Could there truly be such fools in this world, rushing headlong to suffer a loss?
Or could it be...
That these country bumpkins from Azure Firmament Cave had hidden away to deliberate for three whole days, only to conclude that they wanted to seize this chance to cling tightly to the thighs of these two immortal officials?
Of course.
With the shrewdness he had honed over many years of scrambling through the Heavenly Court, he naturally considered another possibility.
These wild cultivators from the Outer Lands might still harbor treacherous intentions, planning to use the pretext of presenting a treasure to lure the two of them into an ambush.
But that thought only surfaced in his mind for an instant.
Before he dismissed it without hesitation.
Anyone who had heard of the Heavenly Court and knew what kind of existence it was in the Nine Provinces would never dare entertain such outrageously rebellious thoughts.
Besides, if they did not wish to pay the Annual Tribute, they could simply struggle onward by themselves. Why would they submit a memorial of their own accord, practically begging to accept the Heavenly Court's amnesty?
Surely they had not gone to such lengths, racking their brains to lure these two immortal officials down to the mortal realm—
Just so they could provoke two Heavenly Court immortal officials and satisfy their itch for a fight?
How