Chapter 166 - High-Grade Spirit Pendant
"Long Wang, come with me."
Not wasting her time, Xiao Fang obediently followed the Supreme Elder away.
'It seems I'll have to put my plans on hold for now,' Xiao Fang thought.
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The Supreme Elder took Xiao Fang back to the place where Jiang Mei registered him as her direct disciple. That's when it dawned on him. He assumed she brought him here because they were struggling to find his master.
Back then, Jiang Mei put him down as 'Da Long', but when asked for his name during the exam, he said 'Long Wang'. Although keeping track of names made things easier, there were more secure ways of proving who was registered under what elder.
Xiao Fang followed their instructions and let them check his spirit mark signature, then they went back to find the elder that matched him in their files. Xiao Fang didn't have to wait long for them to figure out who his master was. This was standard procedure for everyone that passed the secondary test in the exam. They only decided to start with Xiao Fang first since there was more confusion as to who his master was.
The elder that checked him came back from the back room with a nameplate in her hands.
"So, it's Elder Jiang Mei. She was still a disciple not too long ago," the Supreme Elder commented when she saw the nameplate.
"Are we done here?" Xiao Fang asked the inner court elder behind the front desk.
"Yes. I'll notify Jiang Mei that you passed the exam and she'll be accommodated into the inner court," the inner court elder said.
Just as Xiao Fang was about to leave the Supreme Elder grab his arm and took him somewhere where they could be alone.
'She's fast,' Xiao Fang thought.
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Since the Matriarch was supposed to return to the sect today and announce to everyone that Li Lian was her direct disciple, the Supreme Elder wanted to inform her that Li Lian had a fiancé before that happened.
"Tell me the truth, are you and Li Lian really engaged?" the Supreme Elder asked.
"Did you already forget our agreement?" Xiao Fang said.
"No, but this is urgent."
Xiao Fang paused to think.
After learning about all the things he could get in the inner court he greedily started to think about what he could get from this Supreme Elder.
"Alright, but I want something in return."
"Name your price," she immediately replied.
Xiao Fang knew that the elders didn't carry around merit points. Instead he asked for the most expensive thing he could remember from the tour he was recently on.
"I want a high-grade spirit pendant."
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Before he could enter the Ancestral Training Grounds, Xiao Fang had to buy a special pendant, the same kind of pendant he used during the exam. The only problem was the price.
What he used during the exam was a Low-grade spirit pendants, but even that was already a bit expensive
Small-grade pendants = 5,000 merit points.
Medium-grade pendants = 25,000 merit points.
High-grade pendants = 100,000 merit points.
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The Supreme elder furrowed her brows. She acted unwilling so that he wouldn't ask for more. She was even thinking about negotiating, but she didn't want to risk it when something like that was well within her means to get.
Although a high-grade spirit pendant was an extremely valuable commodity that not even Core Court elders could easily get their hands on, as a Supreme Elder it wasn't a problem at all.
"Alright, but you have to tell me your relationship with Li Lian in detail."
Xiao Fang thought he was making an unreasonable demand and was planning to work his way down from there, the last thing he expected was for her to agree to it so soon.
She reached into her spatial pouch then gave him what he wanted. Xiao Fang was hardly ever excited about anything, but sensing her take it out made his jaw drop.
She put it in his hands then he began to inspect it. Xiao Fang could immediately tell that it was real because the profound feeling he was getting from it was something that couldn't be faked. Furthermore, the inscription engraved on the back was far more complicated than the one he used during the exam.
Xiao Fang noticed that it was slightly glowing, meaning that there was some Illusory qi left in there, so he extracted a small amount of it and let it flow into his dantian.
Xiao Fang was flabbergasted. The qi was so pure. He knew even cultivating a small amount of it would raise his cultivation by leaps and bounds, just how fast would he be able to cultivate with this thing, he wondered.
After confirming that it was real, Xiao Fang put the high-grade spirit pendant away, then told the Supreme Elder what she wanted to know.
"Li Lian is a beautiful girl, so we often did the thing between men and women."
"..." the Supreme Elder was speechless.
Although Xiao Fang was a very young and good-looking man, but she still didn't expect such a talented girl like Li Lian to easily sleep with him.
"Then does that mean-"
Xiao Fang shook his head. "As much as I would like to marry her, the truth is we are not engaged," Xiao Fang confessed.
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What he said was the truth.
Since they didn't get their parent's approval yet, their engagement was technically not official. Right now they were simply lovers, the equivalent to 2 people dating in modern times. If Xiao Fang was to say that she was his fianceé it would've been as much of a lie as saying that she was already his wife.
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"What? But Fei Lin admitted to it. Are you telling me that she was lying?"
"I was also regularly sleeping with Fei Lin," Xiao Fang said.
"You..." the Supreme Elder's jaw dropped.
"I don't know why Fei Lin would say that Li Lian was was my fiancée, but the truth is that the three of us along with a few others were very sexually active with each other."
Even if Xiao Fang wasn't Li Lian's fiancé, it was still incredible news that he was sleeping with her and Xiao Hei.
"Is that enough?" Xiao Fang asked.
Hearing his question, she began to think. She felt like this was her time to ask anything she wanted, so she took her time with it. Suddenly, she realized something in his words.
"Who else were you referring to when you said 'a few others'?"
There were 2 girls in particular she was suspecting. Earlier that day when she was looking for Xiao Fang's house, she discovered that both Bai Fan and Zhao Pan lived right next to him. Back then she just assumed that he picked a place between them, but now she was having second thoughts.
'Could it be them? No, he wouldn't be so daring to chase after a Supreme Elder's daughter. And what are the chances that all of the most talented disciples from the outer court this year were all sleeping with him.' The Supreme Elder thought.
She began to sweat nervously as she thought about Bai Fan's mother and what she would do to Xiao Fang if he really did sleep with her only daughter.
"Y-You didn't sleep with... Bai Fan... did you?" the Supreme Elder whispered Bai Fan's name.
"What I agreed to tell you was simply about my relationship with Li Lian. If you want to know about the other girls I slept with then you will have to forgive me. That is something I can't tell you."
"Name your price," she immediately replied.
Xiao Fang shook his head.
"I cannot tell you for confidentiality reasons."
Xiao Fang didn't want to lose credibility with his clients since he was going to rely on them heavily in the inner court.
She was reluctant to leave things the way the were, but it was evident that he wasn't going to tell her anything else.
"May I be dismissed?" Xiao Fang asked.
The Supreme Elder sighed.
"Alright, you can go."
Xiao Fang nodded then left.
Despite wanting to know more about Xiao Fang, she got the information she needed so she wasn't too disappointed.
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After Xiao Fang left, he entered the first large red pagoda he saw. Inside he saw hundreds on female disciples waiting for their turn to use one of the available trial pods.
Xiao Fang got the run down on how everything operated from Su Lingxi, so he knew that he would be able to find less people upstairs since it was only reserved for certain classes.
Xiao Fang climbed the stairs, but was stopped when he reached the door.
"Class?" The female guard said after stopping Xiao Fang.
"Phoenix-class," Xiao Fang replied simply.
The girl smirked mockingly, "Do you think I'm an idiot? Don't tell me, show me."
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