"We meet again." An even voice rang out.
It put Jiang Man on guard.
Not long after dark, he had spotted a familiar figure on the road.
Someone from the Li Lineage had come.
The man stood on the route he had to take home, leaving him nowhere to hide.
But just like last time, he had no manners.
He had never even said what to call him.
"The Li Lineage wants to see me?" Jiang Man asked.
Lao Jin's expression did not change in the slightest. He said calmly, "I heard you haven't paid your cultivation gold. Are you planning to miss out on the middle-grade cultivation method just like that?"
"The Li Lineage wants to lend me spirit sources?" Jiang Man asked curiously.
"Sign a contract with the Li Lineage, and we can pay those ten thousand spirit sources for you," Lao Jin said.
Jiang Man shook his head and explained, "Your terms are too poor. Ten thousand spirit sources a month? The Fang Lineage offered thirty thousand a month, and I still turned them down. Not only that, the Gao Lineage even said that if I failed to enter the sect, I wouldn't have to return the resources, and the contract would be void.
"The Li Lineage really lacks boldness. It's not that I don't know which way the wind blows."
The man did not know what terms the various lineages had offered anyway, so there was nothing wrong with saying that.
At this, Lao Jin frowned.
He seemed not to have expected the Fang Lineage to offer such a high price.
Then he collected himself and said, "For you, ten thousand spirit sources is enough to enter the sect. Geniuses have their own rules. If you join the Li Lineage, this small amount of spirit sources