Chapter 1817 — Staying in the Snow Valley
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"Grand Elder? Just now I..." Tang Zhi had meant to ask about the strange thing that had happened to her, but she suddenly remembered the purpose of her visit, and so she forced down her curiosity and said instead, "Grand Elder, Valley Master, Elder Zhang, and all you seniors, I beg you—please give me an Ice Spirit Sacred Fruit first, and I will surely scrape together a billion yuan to pay you..."
As she spoke, Tang Zhi was about to drop to her knees! After all, it had taken her no small effort to meet the Grand Elder, the Valley Master, and the others even once; if she let this chance slip by, she feared she would never have another opportunity to say these words.
"Don't—" The Grand Elder hurriedly reached out and caught Tang Zhi. Now that she wanted Tang Zhi to stay in the Snow Valley, how could she let her kneel and beg over such a trifling matter? After steadying Tang Zhi, the Grand Elder said generously, "The Ice Spirit Sacred Fruit is no problem at all, but before that, shall we first discuss another matter?"
"Another matter?" Tang Zhi was slightly taken aback, not quite understanding.
"If you would all please come with us to the Snow Valley's council hall and talk it over in detail?" The Grand Elder was calculating in her heart how to make Tang Zhi stay; but from the look of things now, using the Ice Spirit Sacred Fruit as the price of exchange to force Tang Zhi to stay was not at all impossible.
Admittedly, this was a somewhat despicable act of taking advantage of another's misfortune. It was different from the Ice Palace keeping Feng Xiaoxiao: Feng Xiaoxiao had a special constitution and had to remain in the Ice Palace to cultivate in order to receive effective treatment and preserve her life. Tang Zhi was another matter—she had only come seeking medicine, and a single Ice Spirit Sacred Fruit cost no more than a billion yuan. To trade a billion yuan for an inheritor of the Snow Valley was simply a stroke of enormous good fortune!
But despicable or not, the Grand Elder had after all cultivated the Heartless Art from the very beginning, and she had no trace of compassion. In her eyes, only profit and the supremacy of the strong mattered. So although she was polite to Tang Zhi, that courtesy rested entirely on the premise that Tang Zhi would stay; if Tang Zhi refused, then the Ice Spirit Sacred Fruit and everything else were out of the question!
"Very well..." Tang Zhi hesitated for a moment, then nodded. She did not know why the Grand Elder had suddenly begun to regard her with such importance, but she supposed it had to do with the earlier upheaval; so whatever had happened before, it was on the whole a good thing.
Together they arrived at the Snow Valley's council hall, and under the astonished gazes of the many Snow Valley disciples, the doors of the hall were shut tight! One had to understand that through the generations the council hall had been forbidden ground to all but the Grand Elder, the elders, and the Valley Master; that these four strangers should now be allowed inside was nothing short of an astonishing marvel.
Yet the Grand Elder did not feel in the least that she was breaking any rule. If Tang Zhi stayed in the Snow Valley, she would even be willing to yield the Grand Elder's seat to her. In the eyes of Heaven Rank experts like them, such positions had all become empty things; and at their level of martial cultivation, no one would be jealous of Tang Zhi at all, for a thing like constitution could not be envied. Everyone at that height knew that without the right constitution, no amount of diligent cultivation could match the progress of one born with a fine one!
So if Tang Zhi joined the Snow Valley, then no matter how formidable she became, she would still be one of the Snow Valley's own, and they would only be glad. Of course, if she joined the Ice Palace, then they could do nothing but burn with envy, jealousy, and resentment!