Good Faith

The cooks, butlers, and maids unloaded large platters onto the table one after another: fresh bread and chowder, sushi, grilled fish, unagi, and fried fish. It was an unthinkable meal for the Sky Plane cultivators, who felt like royalty for the first time.

With Immortal Skye offering the soldiers high-quality spirits to wash down free power gains, Roxy couldn't order them to do anything. Noting the situation, she turned to her host and spoke candidly: "Are you bribing our soldiers with power?"

"I'm not bribing anyone with power—power is all we have," Jake replied coolly. "We have eighty thousand pounds of soul meat. Serving anything else would be a hit to our resources."

A heavy blanket of silence fell on the table, muting even Gabriel.