After all, the spirit stones Bai Jin'er saved weren't going into her own pocket. She was protecting the coffers of her Great King.
Chun Xiaobai waved a generous hand. "No need."
"I'm not giving you this many spirit stones to show how generous your Great King is."
"It's so you can raise your cultivation as quickly as possible. Don't end up holding your Great King back!"
"Yes, Great King!" Bai Jin'er and the others nodded at once.
Lu Qingshan answered along with them, his heart finally settling back into place.
Five billion!
A full five billion spirit stones!
Taking that beating hadn't been much of a loss after all!
Chun Xiaobai glanced in the direction Zhang Xuanhe and the other four had left, casually plucked a stalk of foxtail grass to hold between his teeth, and lay down on a large rock nearby.
A hundred li away.
As they flew along, Zhang Xuanhe suddenly frowned, sensing something was wrong. He stopped abruptly and slapped his thigh.
"Wait, that's not right!"
The other four stopped as well and looked at him in confusion. "What's not right?"
Clutching the Storage Ring in his hand, Zhang Xuanhe's face twitched hard.
"We took such a huge risk and pulled a job with that kid, but we only got a billion spirit stones."
"Didn't we get a terrible deal?"
The four thought it over carefully. That really did seem to be the case.
For that billion spirit stones, they had impersonated Emperor Pavilion Envoys, carried a Demonic Artifact into the Spirit Origin Sect in the dead of night, and taken part in framing and extortion.
Any one of those charges would be enough to get them killed several times over.
They had already taken the risk, yet they were calling it quits after just