Seeing the crafty glint flash through the other man's eyes, Su Shi'er immediately knew there had to be another trick up his sleeve.
Though displeased, he showed none of it and patiently asked in an even tone,
"Oh? And what does Elder Qian want?"
Elder Qian smiled and pointed toward the Storage Pouch at Leng Yan's waist, which shimmered with a pale blue radiance and was clearly no ordinary item.
"This old man wants... this Nascent Soul fellow cultivator's Storage Pouch!"
In his view, although Su Shi'er had been the one who secretly produced the top-grade Spirit Stones,
given Su Shi'er's cultivation level and the fact that he traveled with a Nascent Soul Cultivator, the chances of him possessing a large quantity of top-grade Spirit Stones were not high.
By comparison, the person lying gravely wounded and unconscious on the ground was a late-stage Nascent Soul Cultivator.
As the one behind everything, she was far more likely to possess them.
Following that line of reasoning, others might not know the exact number of top-grade Spirit Stones in her Storage Pouch.
Furthermore, as a Nascent Soul Cultivator, the various resources and materials in her Storage Pouch were far beyond anything a Golden Pill Cultivator could compare with.
What did three thousand top-grade Spirit Stones amount to? Taking advantage of such a golden opportunity to seize her Storage Pouch was the true way to maximize his gains.
"What? He wants Senior Leng's Storage Pouch?"
"How... how was that any different from outright robbery?"
"A Storage Pouch is where cultivators keep the resources they have gathered over a lifetime. Wasn't Senior making things impossible for us?"
"Never mind that Senior Leng is unconscious right now—even if she woke up, she probably wouldn't accept such a price."
The moment Elder Qian finished speaking,