The moment Lang Dong said this, the atmosphere grew somewhat awkward again.
What they were engaged in now was a verbal contest. Each side invoked acceptable rules-old alliance precedents, the customs of the cultivation world, the laws of Spellbreak City, and so on-to contest ownership of the treasure. Huang Yunhao had first raised the right of first excavation. After that was refuted, he argued that a Public Treasury mission entitled the Public Treasury to a share of the proceeds, directing his attack squarely at the Refining Furnace.
If this argument held, then the Azure Cloud Sect would unquestionably have to surrender the item. Otherwise, it would be opposing the entire righteous path and cutting itself off from the alliance.
However, Lang Dong pointed out that other items could be handed over in compensation. That, too, was within the rules.
The alliance's share concerned whatever had been obtained from the ruins. Since the Refining Furnace was not the only thing recovered, there was no reason to sink their teeth into it and refuse to let go.
Naturally, Huang Yunhao and the others would not agree. They cited further regulations and argued their case, insisting that the Refining Furnace be made available for division.
Though this might allow members of the Demon Alliance, the Earth Baleful Gate, and even rogue cultivators to claim a share, they could still secure the lion's share by taking remedial measures afterward.
Of course, Lang Dong refused. He kept offering to contribute the puppet wreckage, and even the Spell-Breaking Blade, to the division while excluding the Refining Furnace.
After all, the number of guardians in the ruins could be verified later. Ren Hao and the others could testify that Fang Qianyuan had personally destroyed a batch of puppets. Under the alliance cultivators' principle of distribution according to