Lin Fan landed next to Oran Lee and immediately noticed his stomach turned as the latter shook his hand. He hadn't felt this way around someone since Han Zhou, but ignored the feeling as the two of them shook hands.
The two of them were standing on an island twisting around a small blue cloud in a grass field in the center of Green Mirror City. The city had taken the name of the ocean and kept the aesthetic qualities, but for some reason had what seemed to be a sea of strange colored clouds floating along the grass. the strange, effervescent clouds smelled like a mixture of sweet blossoms, rain, and also like the morning dew found in the Fan Sect. He maintained his distance from those strange clouds as Oran Lee waved him to sit down on a large stone chair that erected itself when he landed.
Oran Lee was definitively an expert in the law of space and seemed to have lightened up the gravity in the entirety of Green Mirror City. He felt barely any strain on his feet, and sat down as Oran Lee pulled out what appeared to be a clear transparent bottle of an expensive, antiquity wine. He quickly opened it up and poured it as Lin Fan looked over at the strange bubbling clouds.
"Those are called production clouds... Are pill makers don't use pill flames and instead use pill billows as we like to call them... They are full of pill powder that has been evaporated, which allows them to make pills much faster then with a pill flame... With a pill flame you have to melt the ingredients, but with a pill cloud the ingredients are already in their most easy to manipulate form..."
"Sounds complicated... Is that why the gravity is so low here?" Lin Fan turned down the wine and looked over at one of the clouds as a small series of girls walked out with boxes full of pills. "However, before I get off track... You called me here because you promised to help the humans in the war..."
"Yes, I'm a fan of rare treasures, and I can tell you're a man with fine, refined taste... You see... It seems from the third match to the fifth match you must have found a tome on the law of time... I'd like to trade you 10,000 soldiers and three sentient treasures in exchange for that tome..."
"How are you so sure I didn't just master it... You're aware I have a system..." Lin Fan waved Chen Long back as he grabbed the hilt of his sword. He was snarling at Oran Lee as the latter seemed to have said the last line with a little bit of hidden meaning... "As a collector, I'm sure you know it makes it more expedient to learn new techniques..."
"Faster... Maybe? However, we all have treasures that can match a system... For instance, some god tier sentient treasures can promote you from the mortal realm to the demi-god realm if you master them... Those are usually made by Overlords, and carry with them an impossible price... I'm looking for a tome on the law of time so I can create a new product..."
"I... I can't confirm or deny I may have a tome on the law of time... However, where are the sentient treasures you can give me... I also didn't come here to make a trade, and came here to ensure that we won the war..."
"The war of a small continent is nothing compared to a single sentient treasure... I'd give a million young girls for that time treasure you have, but I don't suppose you'd want to trade that..."
Lin Fan suddenly got a little bit angry, and finally determined why he felt uneasy about Oran Lee. He looked over at the girls in the pill plumes and the frowns and forlorn expressions on their faces. It was extremely likely that their volition had been taken from them and Oran Lee was using them as Pill Girls to make a higher profit. Not that Lin Fan didn't expect such a thing, but when it came to little girls he felt more angry than he expected...
He also could tell that the girls were in good health and were treated better then the slaves like Mimi Fan before he rescued them. He wasn't going to start a war with four races and judge his allies on the sheer basis that they had different customs. Lin Fan ignored the feeling of anger and looked at the grizzled man in front of him before he pulled out the [Heart of Time] Tome and put it down by his side.
His [Heart of Time] Tome had went from when it was at its worst [Hostile] to [Submissive] as its status to Lin Fan. It would even attack others for him if he requested, and had about the strength of a normal Apotheosis Stage Practitioner.
It instantly moved back, though, when it saw Oran Lee, and flapped its pages open like it was complaining. The book jumped up and down on Lin Fan before he pet it and held it tightly in his arms...
"I'm showing you the book with the possibility of lending it to you, but that's it... It's close to me, and it also has the ability to upgraded as you know..."
"I have never seen a book on the law of time... Is it from the Undying Night Organization? I've tried to contact them countless times, but they always turned me down!"
Oran Lee looked above excited as Lin Fan smiled and thought about summoning the book back into his spatial ring. He merely wanted to see the sentient treasures that Oran Lee had before he gave the book away even for a second.
Grain Kan had given him the tome as his present for beating him in the Forbidden Tournament. He wasn't dumb enough to think that Ha Kong had just lost the [heart of time] tome because it escaped. The latter sounded ridiculous and during his match it was apparent he had a skill like the [eternal heart clock].
There was actually still at least ten techniques in the [heart of time] tome that Lin Fan hadn't learned, but the skills were each one billion sadist points. He hadn't made a new Sadist Farm yet, nor figured out a way to get more than 10 million sadist points a day. This meant that he'd have to spend a hundred days just to get one skill in the tome, and he needed new skills quickly.
He asked the book to go over to Oran Lee before it feigned barking and growling as the latter smiled and reached down with a strange treat. the book smelled it and turned to Lin Fan before Lin Fan nodded his head.
"This is called a [High Density Spiritual Missive Seed]... If you give these to your sentient treasures, they can learn new techniques... They are conscious beings and also so cute!"
"How many treasures so I can have it permanently?"
"None... You learn what you need from it while I look at your treasures..." Lin Fan sighed and got up... "So show me what you have to offer me, and I'll see about giving you the book..."
"I will change your mind, Lin Fan..." Oran Lee got up and smiled... "Wait until you see my sentient treasure collection! It's even better then my collection of women!"