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#172 - You are so old. You must have been in your fifties or sixties when you established your found

The negotiation location wasn't within the sect, but still under its jurisdiction.

Gu An hadn't participated in such tasks before, so he asked a few questions.

"It's hard to say. Just find a way to get them to budge and explain the implications.

They won't deliberately make things difficult, but they won't hold back if they can.

We also have task completion rates to worry about, and it's troublesome if we don't do well."

While flying on the sword, Duanmu Qingping sighed: "In short, our position is all about enduring grievances. We try our best to satisfy the visitors, and sometimes we even have to help them with tasks.

Also, get them to propose conditions. If there are conditions, we can try to negotiate.

What we fear most is when they're vague and keep nagging.

They just want us to make the first offer and then demand an exorbitant price."

"What's our bottom line?" Gu An asked.

Having a bottom line helps with negotiation.

"They lost one-tenth of their goods and want us to compensate them fully.

Our bottom line should be to recover all the damaged wood and compensate them for thirty percent of it.

Plus, offer them a discount on the next transaction," Duanmu Qingping said.

"So, is it actually our fault?" Gu An asked, somewhat curious.

"I don't know," Duanmu Qingping said. "But regardless, once the goods are handed over to them, it's their responsibility to take care of them. Even if they really did have a scent when we sold them, it's not really our problem.

But if they insist on saying so, we have to accept it.

Making a big deal out of such a small matter is bad for everyone.

Especially if it escalates within the sect, then no one will have a good time.

Even if the sect elders firmly say it's not our fault, it's still our incompetence if they have to intervene in such a small matter."

"What are the potential punishments?" Gu An asked curiously.

Duanmu Qingping explained: "Resources are halved or even deducted. In addition to sect resources, there are extra resource subsidies at Peak Outside Peak.

It's much more than the sect resources. This is a trading place, and the spiritual stones for all positions are the highest here.

There are even merits.

For example, a Golden Core cultivator in our team has one hundred spiritual stones and fifty merits.

The sect only provides thirty spiritual stones and thirty merits.

Spiritual stones are easy to get, but merits are too difficult.

If you stay here for a few years, you can exchange them for many things.

If it weren't for that, why would we linger in the backyard?"

Gu An thought for a moment and felt he was at a loss.

If there were so many extra spiritual stones, the price he charged for logging was too low.

He had to go back and raise the price.

Being here is equivalent to having one hundred and thirty spiritual stones and eighty merits per month.

That's indeed extremely high.

Elder Miao was actually so kind.

It seems these spiritual stones aren't easy to obtain.

However, he didn't receive these resources this month.

"You won't have any for the first month, they start from the fourth month," Duanmu Qingping thought for a moment and then said: "If the Qingcheng Sect incident is handled well, then you'll have resources to collect next month."

Hearing this, Gu An understood, a three-month internship.

Income only starts in the fourth month.

"The other party should also be sending two people this time, and their cultivation will most likely be similar to ours.

The higher the cultivation, the more importance they place on it. If the cultivation is low but they make high demands, then they completely disregard us.

This situation usually comes from larger sects or larger clients, especially those who haven't paid the final payment yet," Duanmu Qingping said a lot about after-sales service along the way.

In short, it's all about enduring grievances.

Basically, it's about taking the blame.

Regardless of who is right, they can't stand up straight and speak.

After all, they are just after-sales support and can't decide anything.

They dare not offend the other party.

And they are strictly forbidden from taking action.

"Later, watch my eyes and act accordingly," Duanmu Qingping said.

But as soon as she finished speaking, a message talisman suddenly flew over.

It landed in front of the two of them.

Then, it entered Duanmu Qingping's mind, and she showed a surprised expression.

"What's wrong?" Gu An asked.

"Peak Outside Peak wants me to go back and handle important matters," Duanmu Qingping frowned:

"In that case, Junior Brother has to go alone."

Hearing this, Gu An was quite surprised, but he quickly remembered something.

Finally, he said: "Then Senior Sister, go back. I'll go take a look by myself."

Duanmu Qingping also thought of something and said: "Junior Brother, do you really want to go alone? Why don't you come back with me? Even if you're punished, it won't be too severe."

Gu An shook his head and refused.

Someone was targeting him, and he couldn't avoid it.

The more he avoided it, the more trouble it would be.

He could only go and see for himself.

He just didn't know if there would be an ambush on the way.

He had to be careful.

While being careful, he was also curious about who was targeting him this time.

The Ring of Fate didn't provide any feedback, which meant it wasn't the team leader, and that powerful steward shouldn't be either.

It wasn't even Elder Miao. In that case, it seemed that there were quite a few people who couldn't wait for something to happen to him.

He just didn't know if this time it was for an ambush or to cause trouble at Qingcheng Sect.

The process was relatively smooth, and Gu An safely arrived at the agreed peak. There was a pavilion here.

After the meeting, he would be taken to certain places to successfully negotiate.

Sitting in the pavilion from morning to noon, Gu An still didn't see anyone.

It was long past the agreed time, but no one appeared. It seemed the other party was doing it on purpose.

According to Senior Sister, he had to wait even if they were late.

Finally, after noon, Gu An saw two Golden Core cultivators flying over on their swords.

Both were in the early stage of Golden Core.

One male and one female, both were relatively young, looking to be around twenty-seven or twenty-eight years old.

When they landed and only saw Gu An, the man frowned slightly: "Fellow Daoist from Cangmu Sect?"

Gu An stood up and greeted them, saying: "Gu An from Team One in the Backyard of Peak Outside Peak."

"A newcomer?" The fairy in the yellow immortal dress said coldly.

Gu An understood their meaning and explained: "Originally, I was supposed to come with my Senior Brother and Senior Sister, but they rushed back due to an emergency communication from Peak Outside Peak.

It's truly our fault for neglecting the two fellow Daoists.

Therefore, we will try our best to consider the requests made by the two fellow Daoists."

Anyway, the other party didn't know how many people came, so he just made it up.

He indicated that it wasn't that he didn't value them, but that Peak Outside Peak had urgent matters.

As for whether they believed it or not.

Anyway, he believed it.

"Hehe." Both of them sneered.

Gu An thought that they probably didn't believe it.

"Looking at you, you weren't young when you entered the Foundation Establishment stage, right?" The Qingcheng Sect fairy looked at Gu An with pride in her eyes:

"You entered Foundation Establishment in your fifties or sixties, and then it took you almost two hundred years to enter the Golden Core stage, right?

Not only that, but looking at your thin and dry appearance, you should just be a woodcutter logging in the sect, right?

It's not that we look down on you, but what's the difference between you and a useless handyman?

Can the things negotiated by a waste of space even count?"

Gu An looked at them and said politely: "You two can say what's on your..."

Before he could finish speaking, the Qingcheng Sect man waved his hand and said: "Forget it, forget it, it's not that we don't want to listen to you, but anyway, we've revised your previous demands, so let's just go with this."

As he said that, he handed over a letter.

Seeing this, Gu An raised both hands to receive it.

But just as he raised his hand, the other party suddenly let go, and the letter fell to the ground.

"I accidentally dropped it on the ground," the other party said with a smile.