Even if he lacked the spirit stones, the sect would never ask Lu Changsheng to pay back the cost of this Rank 2 Early Stage magical artifact.
In fact, they would rather he didn't pay it back, as that would leave behind a personal favor.
At the Foundation Establishment level, the immortal contracts signed previously no longer held such strong binding power. First of all, the greatest constraint of such low-level immortal contracts was the bottleneck of advancing from the Qi Refining Realm to Foundation Establishment; once others had successfully broken through to Foundation Establishment, naturally, those constraints dissolved.
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