Several dozen minutes later, inside the tallest building on Yuyao Planet.
Chi Jiuyu sat sprawled carelessly on the sofa, with Zhang Yunlu seated beside her.
You Hao sat opposite them.
Before long, You Hao's assistant brought over a paper file, an exquisite jade box carved from fine spirit jade, and a silver-gray briefcase.
Chi Jiuyu paused, then glanced again at the exquisite jade box. "Are you bribing me?"
"..." That one sentence left You Hao utterly speechless. "You misunderstand, Envoy. This is to protect the crystal card containing cultivator data."
As he spoke, he took the jade box from his assistant and opened it directly.
A layer of purplish-red velvet lined the box, atop which rested a crystal card.
"After all, this item is of great importance. If it were damaged, repairing it would be troublesome."
The Starry Sky was not like the Central Continent. The Yuyao Star System had no artifact refiners capable of this sort of work; if a crystal card needed repairs, it had to be sent to another star system.
And skilled artifact refiners were difficult to find. One careless mistake could result in part of the data inside being lost.
"Oh, oh! I thought you were going to use this to bribe me."
The grade of this spirit jade box was quite good.
You Hao: "..."
In truth, he had initially entertained exactly that thought. But after chatting with her all the way here, he discovered that Chi Jiuyu, whom the outside world had made out to be almost godlike, seemed somewhat... bizarre?
To be safe, he simply abandoned the idea.
Chi Jiuyu casually took the jade box, removed the crystal card within and handed it to Zhang Yunlu behind her, then passed the jade box back to him.
Seeing this, the assistant hurriedly set