Upon hearing Uncle-Master Baihua say this, I promptly took out the Earth Spirit Pearl and handed it to Senior Jianyi. I said, "I am but a junior with shallow knowledge; I hope Senior Jianyi will help me safeguard this."
Senior Jianyi was direct. He took the Earth Spirit Pearl and said, "This is an item you personally obtained from the secret realm. By rights, it should belong to you alone. However, this object is truly precious, and as a junior, you cannot protect it. Even your Baijian Sect cannot hold onto it. Yet, since you were the one who retrieved it, it would not be right for me to take advantage of you. I hear you are cultivating spirit veins and have been constructing a Five Elements Spirit Veins system around your main vein. Once this secret realm excursion concludes, I will personally refine this Earth Spirit Pearl into your earth spirit vein. This vein will absolutely be capable of upgrading to a Tier 9 mid-grade status."
"I am a man of direct character and do not care for beating around the bush with a junior like you," he continued. "Although an earth spirit vein is not as easy to use for cultivating rare metals as a gold spirit vein, it can occasionally produce some—it just depends on the odds. However, it is quite excellent for planting spirit herbs and fruits. I will say it does not compare to a wood spirit vein, but it is still highly fertile spirit soil. I will provide half the resources for your future cultivation of the earth spirit vein, but in exchange…
Chapter 391