Song Yan had made up his mind to settle this matter between Deng Su and himself.
Dragging in the Heavenly Derivation Lineage behind him would mean trouble.
After all, the man had both a major sect and an aristocratic clan behind him, with more backers than he could count, while Song Yan had absolutely no one.
"Primordial Chaos Spiritual Object?" Deng Su mulled over the words.
The requirement was neither particularly difficult nor particularly easy.
The most common Primordial Chaos Spiritual Objects were Spirit Stones.
"Exactly. All I need are Primordial Chaos Spiritual Objects." Song Yan nodded. "So if you have no such spiritual resources to trade, Brother Deng, just give me three or four hundred thousand Spirit Stones, and we'll call it settled."
Deng Su fell silent.
He had considered the possibility that Song Yan would open his lion's maw and make some outrageous demand, such as cultivation methods, secret techniques, precious pills, Flying Swords, or Law Treasures.
But he truly had not expected the man to ask for nothing more than Spirit Stones and Spiritual Objects. That demand really was no different from giving it back for free.
Never mind three or four hundred thousand Spirit Stones-even five hundred thousand or a million would be a single hair off nine oxen compared to the lineage's prized Primordial Chaos Sky Lantern, barely worth mentioning.
But the problem was...
That was from the lineage's perspective. Where would a mere Foundation Establishment cultivator like him get so many Spirit Stones?
His trip into the Spirit Abyss had primarily been focused on searching for clues about the lineage's traitor, and his gains had been limited.
Scraping everything together, he might have forty or fifty thousand Spirit Stones.
Adding his previous savings and selling off some treasures, pills, and the like, he could