The Eldest Princess thought these treasures had tempted her. A triumphant smile curled her lips as she said with considerable pride,
"I doubt you have anything like these in Great Xia!"
"Only Southern Mei has these things, and in all of Southern Mei, only I have the influence to give you all of them!"
"Well? Will you come to Southern Mei with me?"
She was brimming with confidence.
From Xia Wanwan's reaction, she could tell the girl was a cultivator who knew quality when she saw it.
"You consider these things national treasures?" Xia Wanwan asked, her voice full of disbelief.
"Of course! Only Southern Mei has national treasures like these!" the Eldest Princess said proudly.
But then-
Xia Wanwan lowered her head and searched for something in her palm before finally thrusting her little hand into her cloth pouch, rummaging and rummaging.
At last, she pulled out a handful of lush green weeds and asked, "Is this the third-rank spirit herb you were talking about?"
A pale green spiritual energy emanated from them.
The Eldest Princess's smile froze on her face. "Y-you... how do you have..."
She had seen Southern Mei's national treasure with her own eyes. It looked exactly like the one in the little girl's hand!
Xia Wanwan pursed her lips, tossed the spirit herbs onto the ground, and reached back into the little cloth pouch she carried.
"These lousy weeds? I used to feed them to calves!"
As she spoke, she pulled out two more spirit herbs and tossed them onto the ground like garbage, muttering,
"I had no idea you treated this stuff like treasure! Otherwise, I would've sold it!"
Watching Xia Wanwan casually throw spirit herb after spirit herb onto the ground,
the Eldest Princess went numb!
She dropped to her knees and snatched