Chapter 1312 - 1260 - 1261: An Irresolvable Open Scheme
When Wood Virtue Star Lord, acting on behalf of the Heavenly Gate, expressed their willingness to share their cultivation system without hoarding it exclusively, the roles initially played by both parties changed.
If one said before that there was a high chance the parties could become enemies, now, everyone could be considered potential partners for negotiation and cooperation.
From nothing to something, from non-existent to existent, this was a completely different attitude.
The envoys from the Holy Lands of the Imperial Dynasty continually proposed terms that each could tolerate. At the same time, they also made demands, needing the Heavenly Gate to first show sincerity as a basis for cooperation.
However, this was directly and decisively refused. Although they were now engaged in a transaction, the Heavenly Gate was conducting exclusive business—they controlled something unique, with no competitors, and thus had the standing to set terms.
Moreover, in conducting transactions, one sometimes must not be too proactive, need to maintain a certain aloofness, not be too agreeable, and let the others feel the scarcity of the item, so they naturally wouldn’t be too unwilling to pay the price.
Although these Star Lords had never done business, Wood Virtue Star Lord and Fate Controller Star Lord, being skilled in strategic planning, had mastered the art of controlling human hearts and the push-and-pull tactics perfectly.
Facing such a seller’s market with unique goods, even though the wisdom of some envoys from the Imperial Dynasty was exceptional, they were helpless.
You must understand, while these people had outwardly reached a unified front, agreeing to advance and retreat together, the ideal was to acquire the other’s cultivation methods for the smallest price possible.
But when negotiations reached a deadlock, the people of the Heavenly Gate started to break them down one by one, and this camp became purely nominal, since these people were not united at heart.
In the end, Wood Virtue Star Lord and his colleagues achieved their true objective. Each Holy Land of the Imperial Dynasty paid with their respective Heavenly and Earthly Treasures as tuition, while the Heavenly Gate set up an academy and then dispatched people to learn from them.
As for the Cultivation Methods needed by the Great Emperors and Ancient Emperors, even serving as envoys for such figures, they had no authority to make decisions for them and could only bring back the information.
The Heavenly Gate offered them two different choices: these Great Emperors and Ancient Emperors could either exchange Cultivation Methods directly with the Heavenly Gate, or the Heavenly Gate would present the Cultivation Concepts to these Great Emperors and Ancient Emperors, who would then forge their own Paths.