I had just begun to feel a modicum of affection for the Sect Master when he heartlessly cut it short. He insisted that I use my top-tier Earth and Water cultivation manuals as collateral; if I could not repay the Spirit Stones within ten years, those manuals would be forfeited to the Sect as interest.
So, it wasn't that he had confidence in my ability to cultivate the Five Elements Spirit Veins, nor that he saw my potential—he was primarily eyeing my top-tier manuals. He was finding a roundabout way to swindle me out of them.
Since the Sect Master harbored such intentions, I decided to be strictly professional and bargain with him. I demanded that they cultivate these attribute-based spirit veins up to the low-grade intermediate level. As for how the various spirit veins were to be arranged, I would handle that according to my own intuition; they only needed to be responsible for the cultivation process.
Chapter 368