After Li Chen left, he promptly put all his earlier reflections behind him and looked at what he had acquired, deeply pleased.
"I really never imagined it. After years of painstaking planning, I actually got it just like that."
Yet he was not surprised in the slightest. Over the past ten years, he had constantly worked to improve himself and increase his standing. Obtaining it smoothly was simply a matter of course.
He himself had always been an extremely important bargaining chip. When a true crisis arose, the Feng Household was bound to take him into consideration. If they refused his terms, things might well turn into Li Chen helping someone else deal with them.
Overall, however, the Feng Household had not lost out on this transaction either. They had merely sold what they possessed for a price, while also securing Li Chen's promise to act, giving them greater confidence in their upcoming operation.
Li Chen also believed that the Feng Household was by no means trading with him alone. No rule said they could not put the same things to multiple uses and exchange them for more benefits.
What Li Chen had traded for with the Feng Household-or, more precisely, with Feng Zhengliang alone-was the complete body of Array Dao knowledge passed down by Feng Mingzhu, along with the schematic for a complete Mechanism Device.
The former was something Li Chen had coveted for a long time, and its value needed no further explanation.
With it, Li Chen would surely be able to further perfect his Rune Script Dao, and even attain Master Artisan standards in the Array Dao, gaining another foundation of Master Artisan expertise sufficient to establish his own school.
It was practically the most complete body of general knowledge obtainable on the market, excluding the secret