The first plan was way too much. They couldn't allow the top hundred disciples to attain the Most Refined Royal Pellets — they were literally elixir marvels.
That was, by no means, acceptable.
Even the Danling Sect wouldn't lay out such luxurious treasures on a martial contest, though their main operation was alchemy.
Li Taiuxan and the three chief seniors considered the second plan already extravagant, let alone the first one.
However, they had no option but to choose between the two options.
Their hearts went on aching after they made their choice.
At that moment, they failed to wise up to a fact — the Most Refined Royal Pellets, elixir marvel in their eyes, meant nothing to Lin Xiao at all. As the pellets were nothing but his very first alchemy product.
As a matter of fact, Lin Xiao managed to pick up on their thoughts based on their facial expressions. However, he didn't intend to confirm with them or simply tell the truth.
It all went down to Lin Xiao's humbleness. He deemed it advisable to stay low-profile.
Lin Xiao was inclined to go for the first plan. However, he let go of the decision as they turned it away.
He had to take their views into consideration, as he proposed a discussion on the plans after all.
Hence, Lin Xiao nodded in agreement. Then that was a deal.
The gathering moved onto its key topic.
Without saying anything, Lin Xiao took out a spiritual stone of the element out of his storage ring.
It was a scarlet stone, shimmering like a piece of opal. It contained rare elements in it.
As he fetched the stone, Li Taixuan and the three chief seniors stood up abruptly, staring at the stone with their eyes struck wide open.
Overwhelmed by its mesmerizing sparkles, they went lost for words out of sheer excitement.
"This...This is..."
Not to mention the spiritual stones of the element, the Taixuan Sect was even deficient in regular spiritual stones.
That explained the worrisome progress of disciples' martial cultivation and their amazement of the spiritual stone Lin Xiao presented.
Nevertheless, they soon figured out that Lin Xiao had his heart set on the spiritual stones as prizes for top contestants.
Li Taixuan and the three chief seniors shook their heads across the board, insisting on their denial.
"It's not to be sneezed at — it's actually a spiritual stone of the element! We haven't had such a thing like this before. However, the junior martial master is gonna make it a prize. It's way too much for the disciples! The junior martial master should leave it to himself instead."
On thinking of that, Li Taixuan got up enough courage to persuade Lin Xiao out of sheer desperation. He could not for the life of him allow Lin Xiao to wastefully deal with the spiritual stone of the element.
"Martial master, please put away the spiritual stone. You may as well consume the spiritual energy of the element in there. Please leave it to yourself only. You know, our disciples are hardly your equal. It would be so terrible a waste if you were to give it to them."
The three chief seniors also joined Li Taixuan. They even began to beg him to change his mind.
Right then, they even scrambled to grab at the spiritual stone and plug it back into Lin Xiao's storage ring.
On that occasion, Lin Xiao found it impossible to take the second one out.
At last, Lin Xiao went at his wit's end. He had no option but to act on their persuasion.
However, hardly had they intended to get seated when Lin Xiao fetched out a second spiritual stone of the element.
In fact, Li Taixuan and the three chief seniors thought it was the same stone Lin Xiao just took out.
However, as they meant to make Lin Xiao take it back, they went slack-jawed right away — they spotted the difference between the current one and the previous stone.
The one right in Lin Xiao's hand was golden. It was a spiritual stone which was rich in gold.
It's epic! The junior martial master has more than one spiritual stone of the element on him!
Li Taixuan and the three chief seniors went thunder-struck again.