"Phew!" Qi Heng let out a sigh of relief, wiping the sweat off his forehead as he walked out of the conference hall. Fortunately, Zhang Menglong didn't hold on to his previous offenses against him; otherwise, he really wouldn't have known how to wrap things up.
"How did it go, Sect Master? Is he willing to return the Imperial Armor to us?" The Great Elder eagerly approached.
"We paid some price, but we managed to quell his anger," Qi Heng said.
In the end, besides dispatching forces from the Jie Dao Sect to Xuanyun City for rescue, he also spent ten times the price to essentially buy back the Imperial Armor. Fortunately, the price hadn't soared for long, and it was still within a level that the whole sect could manage, so it was only a bit extorted.
But that's only for a super sect; in the secular Empire, even if thousands of Ninth Grade Empires sold everything they owned, they couldn't come up with such a large sum of Divine Crystals.
