The Agility Clan members present in the living room were all elders.
At this moment, their expressions varied, but they all looked towards Patriarch Bai He in unspoken agreement.
The younger generation of the clan also hid outside the door, eavesdropping on the conversation.
If the elders of the older generation looked at Patriarch Bai He with a bit of doubt, questioning, and confusion, then the younger generation, especially those who had experienced the turmoil seven years ago, looked at Bai He from outside the door with their respect lost.
It turned out Patriarch Bai He possessed a very valuable treasure, but he would rather watch his clansmen live such a poor life than take out that treasure to sell for money.
Not going to Spirit Hall to collect Spirit Master subsidies could be seen as refusing charity from an enemy, but being capable of allowing his clansmen to live a better life yet unwilling to part with his treasure was seen as selfish by the younger generation.
Among the younger generation, a little girl, about five years old, stared blankly and shook her head as she saw the changed expressions of the clansmen around her.
"It's not like that, it's not like that. My grandpa isn't like that. You're not allowed to look at my grandpa like that!"
However, these refuting words died out before they could even emerge from her throat.
With Bai He's cultivation, he had already discovered the younger generation hiding outside the door through his spiritual sense.
The piercing gazes of the younger generation made him afraid to turn his head to look directly at them.
Meanwhile, in the living room, although the elders' gazes showed respect and support for his choice, they were also mixed with a bit of anticipation.
In Bai He's heart, two voices were constantly arguing.
At first, these two voices were evenly matched.
As time passed, one voice gradually gained the upper hand until it completely annihilated the other.
"Here, this is what you wanted."
Bai He's struggling expression returned to calm. He reached into his embrace, took out a jade box from a Spirit Tool he had hidden somewhere, and tossed it towards Lin Rong.
The jade box was caught by the old steward midway using his Soul Power. After careful inspection, he handed it to Lin Rong with both hands.
The jade box was about a foot and a half long and half a foot wide. It was lustrous all over, carved from fine mutton-fat jade.
Within Lin Rong's perception, he also sensed the life energy of a ginseng plant that was over five thousand years old.
The life energy appeared in the form of a five-clawed giant dragon, so it was undoubtedly the Crystal Blood Dragon Ginseng.
"Sigh! You gave it to Tang San for free, but I had to coerce and lure you, and you still gave it reluctantly."
Lin Rong took the jade box, muttering to himself:
"Why is everyone so filial to the Clear Sky Sect?"
After he put away the jade box, Bai He had already collected the gold card and was starting to see off his guest.
"Duke Lin, the transaction is complete. Bai will not see you out."
But Lin Rong remained seated and showed no intention of getting up to leave. Instead, he took out a piece of paper and a brush and said to Bai He:
"I've heard that Patriarch Bai and Patriarch Yang Wudi of the Breaking Clan have a very good relationship."
"I have one more request, and I hope Patriarch Bai can write a letter of introduction. I have some matters that require Patriarch Yang's assistance."
Asking Old Mountain Goat for help? Is he going to ask him to refine the Crystal Blood Dragon Ginseng into a pill?
Bai He's internal resistance and objections were at their peak, and he was about to refuse.
But as the words reached his lips, he felt that doing so was inappropriate.
Although the transaction was already a done deal, what if the other party reneged if he refused this request?
While he could handle that young man surnamed Lin, the old steward with Soul Douluo cultivation could also handle the clansmen in the village.
If he remembered correctly, that person's Martial Soul seemed to be related to stars, and he was a control-type Soul Douluo.
Once relations broke down, except for a few clansmen above Soul Saint, the rest would be hard-pressed to escape death.
No, the life of that young man was nowhere as precious as the lives of his clansmen. Moreover, his beloved granddaughter was still outside. He couldn't act impulsively.
Thus, Bai He took a deep breath, accepted the paper and brush, and wrote a letter of introduction according to Lin Rong's request.
Lin Rong did not expect Bai He to be so straightforward. The words he had prepared had not even been spoken before Bai He agreed.
Soon, the letter of introduction was finished. After Lin Rong collected the letter, he got up to take his leave.
"Senior is indeed straightforward. It's already mealtime, so I won't stay and disturb your meal. We shall meet again."
After Lin Rong and the old steward walked a distance away from the village, a faint silver light flashed on both of them. The next moment, two small pebbles appeared in their place.
At the same time, three miles away from this location, Lin Rong and the old steward appeared. Not far away, a carriage and a coachman were waiting.
Simultaneously absorbing Spirit Rings and Spirit Bones produced by the same Spirit Beast would strengthen the skills of both the Spirit Rings and Spirit Bones.
Lin Rong's second Spirit Skill, Green Leaf Mark, gained an additional Spatial Swap effect after absorbing the head Spirit Bone of the Kongqing Bamboo.
Lin Rong could make two marked targets exchange their positions with each other.
Just like just now, they casually found two small pebbles in this location and marked them as targets, then applied the Green Leaf Mark to himself and the old steward respectively.
As long as Lin Rong simultaneously activated these four marks and used the Spatial Swap effect, he and the old steward would exchange positions with those two marked small pebbles.
The maximum distance for Spatial Swap was the same as the maximum distance for the Green Leaf Mark's instant movement.
The initial maximum distance was one kilometer, with an additional kilometer added to the maximum displacement distance for every extra Spirit Ring.
Of course, while Spatial Swap was a powerful ability, it also had its drawbacks.
If a marked target strongly resisted at the moment of spatial displacement, and the resisting individual's strength was higher than Lin Rong's, there was a chance the displacement would fail.
The greater the difference in strength between the resister and Lin Rong, the higher the probability of the displacement failing.
However, this drawback would gradually shrink and even disappear as Lin Rong's strength increased.
Simultaneously triggering four Green Leaf Marks consumed forty percent of Lin Rong's Soul Power.
This was because the Soul Power consumed by triggering a Green Leaf Mark was a fixed one-tenth of the total Soul Power.
Therefore, even if Lin Rong eventually cultivated to become a Titled Douluo, allowing twelve Green Leaf Marks to exist simultaneously, without using his Martial Soul True Body to reduce Soul Power consumption, he could at most perform spatial displacement on ten targets concurrently.
This was also the drawback of most Spirit Skills with fixed percentage consumption.
Such Spirit Skills were powerful in the early stages, but in the later stages, except for a few types that had growth potential or percentage-based amplification, they became increasingly useless.
It truly was a case of being made by fixed consumption and broken by fixed consumption.
Fortunately, Lin Rong's second Spirit Skill, Green Leaf Mark, was one of the few types of fixed percentage consumption Spirit Skills that had growth potential.
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