"Have you reached the peak of the Astral Realm?"
Golden flames flickered in Da Long's eyes, reflecting Yue Wen's figure and revealing unmistakable surprise.
Even with its lofty cultivation and vast experience, it felt that Yue Wen had gone from the late stage to the peak a little too quickly.
Yue Wen shrugged and smiled. "Just my usual performance."
"Don't get cocky. In the last era of Spiritual Qi, some Heavenly Prodigies of my race were born with cultivation equivalent to your Fifth Realm." Da Long snorted twice. "I merely think your talent is passable for a human. With aptitude like this, you could rank in the top thirty of my eight hundred dragon servants."
"A little while ago, I was only qualified to be a personal attendant, and now I'm in the top thirty?" Yue Wen said. "I'm improving pretty fast, then."
"With this king here, of course your cultivation advances by leaps and bounds. Admittedly, a tiny bit of it is down to your own hard work. You want to buy the Appearance Realm Chapter of the True Dragon Method on credit, right?"
"The cultivation method costs seven hundred and ninety-nine, plus three Evil-Suppressing Money in interest, making eight hundred and two altogether. You'll need to pay me forty Evil-Suppressing Money each month, with forty-two for the first month. You'll also have to settle the outstanding balance on the Astral Realm section, which is four hundred and twenty... That comes to four hundred and sixty-two Evil-Suppressing Money in total."
Da Long rattled off the price fluently.
"No problem."
With a grand wave of his hand, Yue Wen counted out the exact amount of Evil-Suppressing Money and tossed it to Da Long.
He had originally saved over two thousand, enough to buy the Appearance Realm Chapter outright.
But buying