"What's this?"
Chen Miao looked curiously at the long wooden box Kong Yue handed him.
"Inside are ten splints of hundred-year blood bamboo. They'll give your Mystic Arts a boost."
Blood bamboo splints?
Chen Miao opened the box and looked inside. Ten crimson bamboo splints lay neatly arranged, each half a centimeter wide and barely two millimeters thick.
Together, the ten were only about five centimeters wide.
What caught the eye most, though, was their crimson color.
Chen Miao had wanted to ask what blood bamboo did, but then he remembered that his current identity was the heir to a bamboo craftsman's trade.
Asking would blow his cover.
So Chen Miao furrowed his brow and handed the box straight back.
"This is far too valuable."
Kong Yue shook her head.
"I specifically asked for these for you. I'm sure you understand why."
Looking at Kong Yue, Chen Miao fell silent for a moment, then nodded.
"Miss Kong, I'll give it everything I have."
"Just call me Kong Yue from now on."
Kong Yue was very pleased with Chen Miao's attitude.
Whatever his abilities were, his attitude alone put her at ease. He was nothing like Li Zhou.
Turning to Li Zhou beside her, whose envious expression was shifting toward jealousy, Kong Yue sighed inwardly.
Then she took out another box.
"Li Zhou, this is for you."
Li Zhou's expression instantly turned to delighted surprise.
Without waiting for Kong Yue to say anything else, he opened the box.
Inside lay a saber about a meter long. Judging by its scabbard, it was probably curved.
"This is a Wild Goose Feather Saber I had someone buy from a master craftsman. Some yin iron was added to it, so it can harm ghosts and evil spirits. Even after your recruit period ends, this