Representatives of Various Factions Attend (Part 2)

He didn't say much else, only stating that since the two of them were young, it was only right for them as juniors to yield the prime seats to their elders.

Seeing that they were not fighting for the prime seats, the Yunyan Sect did not press the matter further.

Seated behind the four great sects were several managing ministers from the imperial court of the Pusi Kingdom.

It could be said that this assembly hall gathered the representatives of the highest authorities in the entire Pusi Kingdom today.

Seeing that everyone was present, Li Zhouxuan exchanged some brief pleasantries before getting down to business.

He beckoned to the head eunuch waiting on standby behind him.

In no time, a group of eunuchs distributed a copy of the goods manifest that Liu Yunan had given him yesterday to everyone present.

Li Zhouxuan then spoke,

"All the items on this manifest will be sold at the listed prices. I wonder if you are satisfied?"

Because after concluding his discussion with Qin Jianghe and the other last night, Li Zhouxuan had sent people to notify the other three sects, briefly disclosing the general situation regarding the trade of cultivation resources. Therefore, the other three sects were not surprised upon seeing the manifest in their hands and hearing Li Zhouxuan's words.

However, regarding the types of items and prices on the manifest, as well as the note at the very end—"If you have other needs, please raise them, and we will do our best to satisfy them"—the other three sects could not remain calm.

Elder Lyu of the Qinghe Sect immediately disregarded all etiquette, looking at Li Zhouxuan in shock as he asked,

"Are the items for sale on the royal family's manifest real?!"

Many of the things on it were items that their sect's inherited refining methods could not produce, such as the Spirit Gathering Pill! The higher-up sects had always used the refining method of this pill to string them along, never actually passing it down to them.

The vast majority of the items listed were things cultivators greatly needed on a daily basis. The most crucial ones were things like Spirit Gathering Arrays and Origin Cultivation Pills, along with various offensive and functional talismans and magical artifacts.

There were also many other resources that only existed in the cultivation world.

Although they could purchase some of these items through the higher-up sects every few years, the prices were worlds apart from the prices on the manifest currently in their hands!

Seeing these prices, the hearts of the Qinghe Sect and the other two veteran sects of the Pusi Kingdom were practically bleeding.

They bled for the meager resources they had previously exchanged at five or even ten times the cost.

It turned out that the prices of these things could actually be this cheap.

With a smile in his eyes, Li Zhouxuan nodded at the shocked Elder Lyu and said,

"Naturally. Moreover, the supply is ample, so you don't need to worry about them running out of stock if you buy late."

Seeing this, Liu Yunan immediately pretended to know nothing and asked in feigned surprise,

"Will we all be able to buy these things at this price from now on? And if we have other needs, we can request them from you? Is this true?"

Seeing him ask so naturally, as if he truly knew nothing, Li Zhouxuan choked up for a split second, but his professional imperial poise allowed him to instantly answer seriously without changing his expression,

"Yes. If you have other needs that are not on the manifest, you can raise them. My channels will try their best to stock them, though I cannot guarantee they will definitely be available."

The other sects didn't really suspect that the supply channel behind the royal family was the Lingxian Sect, though they still had some doubts in their hearts. After all, not long after the Lingxian Sect emerged, the royal family suddenly acquired such a formidable channel.

But seeing Liu Yunan also looking completely in the dark, they dismissed that little bit of doubt in their hearts.

Nonsense. If their own sect had mastered such a formidable channel and could obtain these cultivation resources at such discounted prices, their sect would inevitably take the opportunity to profit more from it, rather than offering prices many times lower than those of the cultivation world's sects.

Furthermore, mastering this channel was equivalent to holding the lifeline of the vast majority of cultivators in the mortal realm. It was even more impossible for them to hand over such an opportunity to control the royal family and other sects.

Such a thing naturally had to be firmly grasped in one's own hands to enjoy exclusive authority.

Therefore, this channel could not possibly belong to the Lingxian Sect.

With the selling prices being so low, the other sects guessed that this was probably because the royal family itself was too poor.

Compared to the sects, which still had plenty of spare capacity to cultivate so many disciples, the royal family was much poorer.

Moreover, the royal family also knew that their sects were backed by sects in the cultivation world. Therefore, they naturally figured that if the items were sold too expensively, they likely wouldn't buy it.

It was just unknown where the royal family got this supply channel; their luck was simply too good.

But it didn't matter.

Although the royal family would definitely be able to earn some profit from their sects through this long-term trade, and their say would be higher than it was now, this was harmless.

After all, their sects had also received tangible benefits.

Even if the royal family earned a little, it certainly couldn't compare to the rapid rise in the overall strength of their sects.

So they could completely accept it.

This way, they could also rely less on the sects in the cultivation world.

Consequently, the several sects raised some detailed questions respectively and negotiated fixed trading times and similar matters with Li Zhouxuan and the others.

Elder Lyu of the Qinghe Sect even listed out a demand sheet for his own sect on the spot. It included some items not on the goods manifest, which they hoped to procure through the royal family's trading channel.

This list was the sect leader's reply, obtained after Elder Lyu immediately used a Sound Transmission Talisman—which he was usually reluctant to use—to send a message back to the sect as soon as he got the news last night.

However, the Qinghe Sect Leader, Han Shangyi, probably hadn't expected the royal family's supply channel to offer such a vast variety of goods, so many things were actually missing from the list he provided.

But Elder Lyu, who had been entrusted with the heavy responsibility of guarding the sect's base in the capital, was a very good friend of Han Shangyi. Moreover, he could make half the decisions in such matters, so he simply added many necessities himself.

Of course, the demand list was handed to Li Zhouxuan sealed.

It was fine for the royal family, the middleman, to know about such things, but it absolutely could not be let out to the other sects.

For a time, everyone in the assembly hall was either staring at the goods manifest carefully calculating something or already starting to draft their demand lists.

When the people from the several sects had more or less finished their respective discussions, everyone originally thought this matter had come to a close and the meeting was about to disperse.

The persons in charge of the other two sects didn't have as much authority as Elder Lyu of the Qinghe Sect. Regarding what their sects needed to purchase, they still had to go back and send a message to their sects to discuss a result.

Unexpectedly, after seeing that they had almost finished discussing with the fellow sect members they brought, Li Zhouxuan, sitting above, quietly glanced over at Liu Yunan and Qin Jianghe before suddenly speaking up to drop another piece of news:

"Since you all have pretty much discussed this matter, and the rest might require you to go back and communicate, we can now talk about the second matter."