Jiang Ding thought for a long time.
"The first condition is fine."
"I kept their bonded treasures. I haven't refined them."
With a wave of his hand, Jiang Ding brought out the bonded treasures of the Celestial God Daoist Heir and the others.
Those treasures were immensely valuable to the Dao Children of the Eight Great Immortal Sects. They could greatly strengthen their foundations. To Jiang Ding, they were ordinary things, worth less than even a single portion of legacy divine gold. The exchange would be profitable.
If he could melt down the legacy divine gold of the Nine Great Immortal Sects and combine it with the Immortal Sect's Law-Breaking Immortal Gold and the many research results of the Immortal Sect Materials Academy of Sciences, he had an excellent chance of refining an entirely new kind of legacy divine gold—Great Sun Immortal Spirit Gold.
Stronger and better suited to the Great Sun Sword Dao, it would be born entirely for that path.
By comparison, Grand Pure Divine Iron was too gentle. It came from the Taiyin-Taiyang Sword Dao and was not a perfect fit for the Great Sun Sword Dao.
He had looked forward to this trade for a long time. Naturally, he would not miss it.
"As for the second condition,"
"I'll do my best to arrange the return of your sect's cultivators. In truth, the Immortal Sect has no need for hostages."
Jiang Ding spoke calmly.
The point of keeping those cultivators was simply to stop the mighty figures of the Eight Great Immortal Sects from going mad. It gave them something to care about. No one was naive enough to believe a handful of disciples could force their sect ancestors into any major concessions.
"Bear in mind, though, that I don't have the authority to make that