>>6192606A few hours later, the elder, who you’re now aware is named Dakpa, comes looking for you. He leads you through the mist filled city for a few minutes, and a fancy building pops into view.
<span class="mu-i">”The city’s lord, Xia Yan is ready to meet you… I do not think he might give you trouble considering the weight of this information, but please have mercy on the people of this city.</span>
<span class="mu-i">”I’ll keep that in mind… And sir Dakpa, I’d like to apologize for lying earlier. My name is Bai Hua and… I don’t really know how old I am today, I don’t know if my previous titles even carry any weight either so I won’t mention them. Thank you for your generosity entertaining this fool’s lousy acting.”</span>
With those words you leave the priest behind, and enter the building. An old looking steward welcomes you in and guides you to the second story, a long line of maids of all ages are present and give you a deep bow as you make your way past them. After going up the staircase, you’re led to the right wing, where a younger man is waiting for you at a table with two cups of tea ready.
<span class="mu-i">”Welcome, Esteemed Expert. I’m Xia Yan, Heipinghua’s new lord. I took over after my father disappeared in the last mist incident and I’m still kind of wet behind the ears in this whole business, so please cut me some slack.
Ah! What am I doing, come in come in, the tea will grow cold!”</span>
There’s no need to lie… that much, so you introduce yourself as Bai hua, a rogue cultivator who used to be at the Soul Nurturing stage and went into seclusion after a brutal injury, you survived at the cost of your cultivation being completely lost… that’s the story you decide to go with this time.
<span class="mu-i">”Aah that’s saddening to hear, and excuse my rudeness but I’m glad you got injured, otherwise my small city might just have been sucked dry this time around!
Please name your price, I will spare no effort in seeing you compensated for your knowledge!
Should you desire, I can bring you every maiden in the city, every spirit stone in the region, or even give you the land itself!”</span>
Huh? Is this because he’s young or is he just trying to make you humbly decline?
While you’re fond of the idea of trying our son out, doing so right now would be too rash, someone can kill you, or even worse, cut your son off.
Every spirit stone in the region will clearly cut into the people’s wellbeing, and even then they’re worthless if you can’t buy anything with them, the quality of spirit stones for direct cultivation has not been suitable in at least four hundred thousand years from YOUR era, you don’t even know how much has passed so it’s likely worse nowadays, it’s simply a currency at this point.
On the other hand, accepting land will tie you to it unless you find someone to manage things for you, and you’re too weak to protect anything anyways, at least if you play by the book.
