After some thought, Master Gu instructed: “Stop at the next Immortal City, let’s buy some wine and meat to treat everyone when we return.”
Da Chuan was thrilled and quickly responded with a laugh:
“Yes, Master!”
Life at Gushan Refining Workshop had always been frugal, and it had been a long time since they could enjoy a hearty drink and meal.
Immediately he couldn’t help but exclaim: “Master, how should we spend all these Spirit Stones? I feel like they can never be all spent… ”
Master Gu chuckled.
This naive young man, so used to poverty, had only known what it tasted like since birth and had no idea what to do with an abundance of Spirit Stones.
Even if he thought about it, he wouldn’t come up with anything.
Then Master Gu thought again and felt a bit of heartache.
Five hundred thousand Spirit Stones…
Quite a lot.
With these Spirit Stones, the Refining Workshop could acquire excellent Refining Furnaces, purchase many top-grade Refining Materials, and buy some rare Refining Diagrams.
The remaining Spirit Stones could allow them to live without worry about food and drink for a good while.
This amount of Spirit Stones could be described as bountiful.
But…
Master Gu sighed internally.
But these Spirit Stones were actually very few.
They might merely be the cost of a single banquet for some families.
Or perhaps just the price of a mount, a carriage, a feast, a fine wine, or a beauty…
Such is the unfairness of the world.
Master Gu glanced at Da Chuan again.
This simple and suffering child, who knew nothing.
But perhaps it was better he didn’t…
A plain life is true life.
Once exposed to the glamor of the world, swept up in earthly desires, and without a strong Taoist Heart, one is bound to become warped and eventually destroyed.
Looking at Da Chuan, Master Gu smiled and said:
“There’s much that can be done; we’ll talk more when we get back. Let’s do things one by one, but first, let everyone have a good meal, and yet…”