Daoist Cangshan hurriedly smoothed things over. "Come now, Great King. You're a grown man. Why squabble with a woman?"
"Who are you calling a woman?" Mu Qinglan flared up again.
"You look down on women, do you?"
"I..."
Daoist Cangshan opened his mouth, but when he noticed Mu Qinglan's dark expression, he quickly shut it.
What kind of nonsense was this?
Sure enough, reasoning with women was just like doing business: only the outcome mattered, not the process.
Just then, Yun Huoyue stood to one side, her gaze shifting between Mu Qinglan and Chun Xiaobai several times, as though something had suddenly occurred to her.
Her gaze steadied, and she strode straight up to Chun Xiaobai. "Great King, come over here for a moment. I have something to tell you."
"Get lost!" Chun Xiaobai was seething. How could he be in the mood to listen to her?
"This Great King has no time right now. Let this woman explain herself first. Exactly how did I insult her taste?"
Seeing this, Li Qingfeng quickly gave Zhou Qingyi a meaningful look.
Zhou Qingyi immediately understood. She walked over to Mu Qinglan and secretly transmitted her voice:
"Qinglan, there are still dozens of sacred lands in the Eastern Region we haven't shaken down yet. Each one will net us at least twenty quadrillion spirit stones and twenty Rare Treasures. Twenty of them together would mean hundreds of Rare Treasures."
She paused, then added, "If we really offend Chun Xiaobai, that enormous fortune will vanish."
"Why not... swallow your pride first?"
"Don't pick a fight with money."
Mu Qinglan turned her head to look at her.
Was this really Elder Zhou, the one she was closest to?
*Who would have thought that, for money, she would disregard even her sect master's dignity and outright