Cart after cart of rice was hauled into a warehouse. Zhang Dacheng smiled eagerly. "Mage, this is the finest rice available. The quality is absolutely guaranteed... No one would dare pass off inferior goods for an order from you..."
Tang Changsheng said mildly, "It didn't need to be this good. Never mind..."
He had meant to say the quality really didn't need to be so high. The rice was only going to be used to fob off Marquis Wu. What use was rice this good for military rations?
But Tang Changsheng wasn't that petty. The rice had already arrived. Good or bad, hauling in another two hundred thousand jin would be more trouble than it was worth, and the small difference in price meant nothing to him.
"Madam Hu used precious materials to perform Ritual Refinement on my Primordial Yang Divine Lamp again. I doubt she'd fake that. As for the Deity Statue, I don't know what it's for, but if I'm right, it should be filled with Incense and Fire Prayer Power..."
That reminded Tang Changsheng of the Three-Eyed Deity Statue he had obtained in Lufadan. After burning away the remnants of the spirit inside it, his cultivation had leaped forward.
There had been signs even then...
Tang Changsheng turned his gaze inward and saw that the two tiers of the Spirit Terrace in his Sea of Consciousness had grown quite a bit larger.
That showed he had been making steady progress lately. Unfortunately, it was nowhere near as fast as he had hoped!
"I hope Madam Hu isn't deceiving me..." Tang Changsheng murmured.
The transaction had to happen quickly. Perhaps Marquis Wu and Madam Hu were still clinging to the naive hope that this batch of grain would keep them going.
But Tang Changsheng knew that Marquis Wu's