Chapter 1461 - Carrot and Stick
The palace lord's lips twitched when he saw Liu Wuxie rub his hands together. He could already tell this youngster planned to use the situation as leverage to force the Nine Dragon Palace into signing a contract.
If the Nine Dragon Palace were to refuse, their decision would completely ruin every spiritual herb here. Even if he tracked down the source of the problem, the herbs wouldn't recover for several hundred years.
Many spiritual herbs needed a hundred years to reach maturity, so even if cultivators planted a new batch now, the herbs would still need another century to mature.
For a sect of this size, the spiritual herbs had long formed a complete ecosystem, with herbs ranging from one-year-old to ten-thousand-year-old.
The Nine Dragon Palace's losses were not just a single batch, as a massive zone full of herbs had been affected.
The withering spread like a plague. Starting from the hundred-year-old spiritual herbs, the rest were eventually infected. Even the ten-year-old herbs suffered the same fate.
It was equivalent to destroying the Nine Dragon Palace's very foundation.
"You three back down," the palace lord said, waving his hand to dismiss the three elders. He needed to speak with Liu Wuxie alone.
The three elders cast a long, measuring look at Liu Wuxie before turning away and leaving the garden.
"Go on. What are your conditions to save the spiritual herbs here?" the palace lord asked. He didn't bother with pleasantries. If outsiders learned that this youth led a Quasi-Immortal like him by the nose, he would become a laughingstock. That was also why he had sent the three elders away.
"I have never seen someone so black-hearted like you. Drop your act and state your terms," the palace lord said casually. After everything that had happened today, he already regarded Liu Wuxie as a friend across generations, and he spoke with an easy familiarity.
Liu Wuxie coughed lightly at being called "black-hearted," using it to cover his brief moment of awkwardness.