Yue Luo froze.
What was this?
Twenty merit points?
Realizing something was wrong, she immediately withdrew and found the talismanic seal for entering this place on the light screen from before. Only then did she see that the rules had long been written beneath it: everyone entering could listen freely, but privately answering questions and resolving doubts cost twenty merit points each time.
But Ding Ying had directly summoned her in, skipping that step at the time. Though she felt there was something wrong here too, she could only blame herself for not noticing. She was a cultivator, not an ordinary person. If she made such an oversight in battle, it might well prove fatal.
Thinking this, she could not help secretly reflecting on herself.
At that moment, Ding Ying's talismanic seal flickered, and her apologetic voice came from within. "Little Luo, I'm sorry. I didn't explain these things clearly. Did you speak with Mister Ban just now? Do you have to give him twenty merit points?"
Yue Luo asked in surprise, "How did you find out so quickly?"
Ding Ying said, "Mister Ban later discovered that you were invited by me and asked whether you knew the rules here. If you didn't, then it was all right—he could waive it. He said he was a Clarifying Truth cultivator, and Gui-grade merit points were of no use to him. He only charged them so people would understand that methods were not easily obtained."
Hearing this, Yue Luo felt somewhat embarrassed.
Moreover, she knew Ding Ying too well. The latter hated seeing others suffer losses most of all. If Yue Luo did not have to pay here, Ding Ying would definitely secretly make up those merit points to Mister Ban on her behalf afterward.
She sighed and put on a relaxed