The Refined Scholar immediately grew serious when he heard this. "Then you'd better hurry, young hero. The grand gathering starts in two months, and there's no telling whether you'll make it in time. We're only going to join in the excitement anyway, so it doesn't matter if we miss it."
"That's true!" Lu Feng nodded repeatedly, then stood up. "An opportunity like this is rare. I've always wanted to visit the Panshen Heavenly Palace, and now I finally have the chance. I'll take my leave, then. Please, carry on."
"Ah!" The Refined Man froze, clearly not expecting Lu Feng to be in such a hurry. But since Lu Feng had already stood up, he could only rise as well and nod in acknowledgment.
"The bill!" Lu Feng took out an immortal crystal stone and set it on the table.
A waiter came over and immediately looked troubled. "Young hero, I can't make change for this!"
"You can't even make change for this? Why not?" Lu Feng asked, puzzled.
The waiter seemed a little embarrassed. "Your meal only costs a little over six hundred high-grade origin crystal stones. That one immortal crystal stone is worth a million high-grade origin crystal stones. Where am I supposed to get that many high-grade origin crystal stones to give you change right now?"
Six hundred... one million. The impact of those two numbers stunned Lu Feng. Only after a long moment did he realize that he seemed to be even richer than he had imagined.
Sun Jiuyang had paid for the castration of Li Changmei and Guo Dingshan, so Lu Feng had never noticed how much it cost. Only now did he learn that immortal crystal stones were so valuable. A single one could let him live comfortably for a very long time.
"Young hero,