"So my Gathering Stone is just gone?"
The Soulless Venerable was still displeased. In his view, he was already suffering this loss for the protection of the Joy Palace and Cloud Cliff Temple; otherwise, given his original status as a Loose Cultivator...
Never mind losing a Gathering Stone, it would be hard to find him at all.
Even if found, he could easily escape at any time.
So the unsaid message from the Soulless Venerable was... this loss shouldn't be solely mine to bear; you, Cloud Cliff Temple, must compensate me!
Even if Cloud Cliff Temple doesn't compensate me, your Lady of Joy from Joy Palace should!
The Lady of Joy heard the words of the Soulless Venerable and instinctively frowned. She had been trying hard to smooth over the relations between the two sides, but now the Soulless Venerable went and tore open the veil...
He seemed a bit unreasonable.
"Fine, fine, within the sect there's still a diabolic blood vine, you can take that."
