CHAPTER 422: CHAPTER 297: ARE YOU THREATENING ME?

Early August.

Another time to turn in the harvests of various institutes.

Gu An increased the amount a bit.

Hoping not to be at the bottom.

He didn’t want to offer more, but offering too little made it easy to end up at the bottom.

Such would risk being eliminated.

Fortunately, on the next day’s ranking, he was third.

Although his ranking rose, it wasn’t the first so it didn’t attract attention.

However, it was the Second Institute that came in last this time.

Three days later, Gu An indeed received news that the Sect had given the Second Institute a mission.

This confirmed it.

Being last meant receiving a mission.

Just uncertain whether missions were always given at the beginning of the month.

Gu An sighed.

He stopped pondering and continued reading during the day and logging at night.

Apart from seeing Chen Changfeng’s elder tomorrow, he would deal with other matters when the time came.

It had been months, and he had not made the slightest progress.

To stay in place was to fall behind.

Others were all advancing.

And then there was the task of finding the lost princess.

People like her, like finding a needle in a haystack, simply could not be found.

One could only wait for fate.

A grand search definitely wouldn’t work, it would be noticed by other Sect members.

After all, it was a task given by a top-ranking superior.

The next day.

Gu An did not wait for visitors at his residence but instead took the initiative to go to the reception area of the Main Court.

Accompanied by Pang Wen.

"Lead, they don’t seem to be here yet," Pang Wen said.

Gu An nodded: "It doesn’t matter, we are of lower cultivation, it’s proper to go first."

Pang Wen felt the lead could bring anyone from the First Institute.

That way, the visitors wouldn’t dare to act recklessly.

But for the lead to go by himself, it seemed a bit disadvantageous.

Even though he heard the lead had reached Golden Core Late Stage, facing a Late-Stage Primordial Spirit was still a bit nerve-wracking.

After a short while.

Gu An sat in the reception hall, quietly waiting.

It took a long time before someone reported from outside that the visitors had arrived.

Pang Wen looked at the time and said: "They’re late."

"Well, the powerful always get held up by something," Gu An calmly said.

Pang Wen didn’t say more but went out to invite the people in.

Soon, the visitors were brought in.

An elder, with two people following him.

A middle-aged man and a young woman.

Seeing these people, Gu An was slightly surprised.

Elder?

Chen Tai is supposed to be a middle-aged man.

Gu An looked at the elder, Primordial Spirit Perfection.

Very strong.

The middle-aged man was actually a Late-Stage Primordial Spirit.

This must be Chen Tai.

As for the young woman, Gu An also observed, Golden Core Early Stage.

There should be no hidden cultivation.

"Greetings to Dean Gu," said the elder politely.

Gu An stood up and courteously returned the greeting: "It’s an honor for this junior to be visited by a senior, please take a seat."

The three sat down in sequence, with Gu An sitting in the main seat, calmly said: "Senior has come to redeem someone?"

"Dean Gu is making fun of me," the elder looked at Gu An and said: "This lad is like my own, hearing that Chen Tai hasn’t brought him back, I came to take a look myself; I couldn’t just let you suffer any losses, right?"

Gu An felt that what the other party was saying sounded pleasant, but he didn’t specify any conditions.

He wasn’t in a hurry, instead he said: "Senior is too kind, the First Institute is essentially a merchant after all, a merchant has its own set of rules.

Moreover, the Six Great Courtyards represent the Sect, here we are all equal in trade."

Gu An certainly did not want the other party to pressure with strength.

The elder narrowed his eyes and looked at Gu An: "Dean’s words are very true, but every transaction always has its sentiments, in the future, we should assist each other when we meet, and shouldn’t turn against each other, right?"

Seeing the other party’s calm tone, Gu An naturally understood that he was being threatened.

Once out of the Sect, there might be a chance they meet, and that would be dangerous.

Regarding this, Gu An also felt harbored many dangers.

He needed to be more careful in the future.

"Of course, we all rely on the help of the seniors," Gu An said sincerely.

The other party thought Gu An was conceding, then followed with some unrelated talk.

Gu An glanced at the time and suddenly said: "The time my master allowed me to be away is up, I must leave.

We can have a good talk next time when I’m free; this conversation was indeed beneficial."

With that, Gu An got up and left.

Before leaving he asked Pang Wen to send off the guests.

Chen Tai and the others’ expressions turned gloomy at once.

After leaving the Sect, their eyes got even colder.

"This head of the First Institute is getting a bit too cocky," the elder sneered: "I wanted him to take the initiative to speak, didn’t expect him to issue an expulsion order so bluntly, really ungrateful."

"What should we do now?" Chen Tai spoke up: "We must redeem Chen Changfeng, without him, our cultivation speed has slowed.

We can no longer harvest new Magical Treasures and Cultivation Techniques.

I must say, his luck is indeed good.

We must redeem him before they discover this, once discovered, it would become impossible."

"No worries," the elder shook his head: "The First Institute won’t find out, they won’t easily let people go, and even if they do, Chen Changfeng is no fool, he wouldn’t hand over what he gets to them.

However, we indeed need to take some action."

"Why not ask the price? If it’s not too high, we can redeem at the normal price," the woman suggested: "If it goes on, we are the ones losing more."

"The value of Chen Changfeng seems not high, two to three thousand Spirit Stones are almost enough," the elder sneered: "They keep silent because we approached proactively, making him see profit, hoping to ask an exorbitant price?

Should we redeem someone we could for thirty thousand with one hundred thousand?

To lose is not the problem, but to let this ungrateful, completely unaware Golden Core waste that the strong are not to be insulted profit, that’s something else."