"Bring him over."
After examining the Treasure Embryo for a while, you spoke.
Before long, You Rou appeared before you with a middle-aged man.
"Greetings, Senior."
The middle-aged man was at the fifth layer of Qi Refining. His heart was trembling with apprehension, and he immediately bowed respectfully upon seeing you.
"I am willing to offer all my treasures to you, Senior."
The middle-aged man spoke without hesitation.
A young cultivator who had never suffered the cultivation world's brutal beatings might still have been fantasizing about how many benefits he could exchange his treasure for.
He might even have tried to negotiate terms with you.
But the middle-aged man had been through a great deal. He knew perfectly well that a lesser cultivator had no room to negotiate with a Foundation Establishment superior.
Negotiate terms? Once you were dead, everything would belong to the Foundation Establishment superior. What terms would there be left to negotiate?
At that moment, the middle-aged man could only pray that you would show mercy and spare his life.
"There is no need for that..." You glanced at the middle-aged man, naturally understanding his thoughts.
Although killing him would have benefited you more, your current standing and strength made that unnecessary.
In this simulation, you intended to build up your "credit rating," then see whether there would be an opportunity to "cash it in" in your twilight years.
A single Treasure Embryo was worth only a few thousand spirit stones. It was not worth killing someone and seizing their treasure under your real identity.
A Treasure Embryo was not a true Magic Treasure. Nurturing it into one would still require a great deal of time and effort.
"The treasure you obtained is a Treasure Embryo. Its market value is around four thousand spirit stones. After deducting