Heluo Mavis continued staring at the empty seat across from her.

Yunying Mavis felt her head ache. "He’s not asking for small amount of change this time."

"When has he ever borrowed a small amount of money? We gave him five billion last time, and this time, even 500 billion isn’t anywhere near what he’s asking," Heluo Mavis scoffed as she rolled her eyes.

Yunying Mavis sighed. "Truthfully, our Mavis family has never been obsessed with money. When we ruled over the Second Mainland, I'm certain that we didn't oversee the economy. Am I wrong?"

"We didn't," Heluo Mavis replied.

Yunying Mavis shook her head, "The reason why we control the economy here was all in order to repay the Lu family. The members of the Lu family consume absurd amounts of resources during their cultivation. After they were exiled, controlling the economy was something that had already become a habit for us. I never expected that all of our actions would still end up benefiting the Lu family anyway. Eh, I suppose it's fine."

Heluo Mavis turned to look at the divine tree and its enormous fruits. She did not care about the Fifth Mainland’s economy, but she was quite concerned about the cost that Lu Yin had mentioned. She yearned to stand on the same level as him once again, regardless of how remote...