With Shan Shubao acting as intermediary, the deal was quickly settled. Yu Gao obtained five bottles of supreme-grade Imperial Nectar from Luo Chen, along with twenty top-grade spirit stones. 

Yes, the payment had been made using top-grade spirit stones. Luo Chen had originally intended to pay with low-grade ones, but two hundred thousand was simply too much. An ordinary storage pouch could not hold it, and even though Adepts could afford larger storage pouches, hauling such a volume of low-grade spirit stones was still troublesome. This made him realize that as one's cultivation advanced, the currency of trade shifted with it.

Yu Gao was more than satisfied with the transaction. A crafting method held little importance to him, and more importantly… even with the manual, crafting the treasure was no easy feat. The method had been acquired by the Penglai Immortal Sect, not created by them, and even after entrusting the task to sect...