The Problem

"It wasn't a gift."

"It was a trade."

Han Li gripped the scroll and quickly took stock of what he had lost.

The Golden-Silver Pages.

Tens of thousands of Spirit Stones.

Seeds of various Spirit Plants.

In exchange, he had received the complete Flying Thunder God inheritance.

Judging by value alone, he could hardly tell who had gotten the better deal.

Spatial secret arts were exceedingly rare in the cultivation world.

A complete inheritance that allowed someone to teleport across vast distances was unheard of.

But what troubled Han Li most was not its value. It was how the other party had bypassed his wards and taken things straight from his Storage Pouch.

He immediately examined his body.

His meridians were normal.

Nothing was wrong with his soul.

The remaining contents of his Storage Pouch were untouched.

Even the Heaven-Controlling Vial hidden on his person was intact.

Han Li held the Heaven-Controlling Vial in his hand and checked it several times before he relaxed a little.

"They could take Spirit Stones directly from my Storage Pouch, yet they didn't take the vial."

"Did they fail to find it, or could they not take it?"

Han Li looked at the Flying Thunder God scroll on the table.

The mysterious trader's methods were far beyond his understanding.

If that person could reach across space and take objects at will, their cultivation had likely reached an unimaginable level.

But why would someone like that need ordinary Spirit Stones and Spirit Plant seeds?

And why exchange a complete spatial secret art for them?

Were the Golden-Silver Pages their real target?

Han Li quickly dismissed the idea.

If they had only wanted the Golden-Silver Pages, there would have been no need to take tens of thousands of Spirit Stones and the seeds.

But if the