"For myself," the Fifth Elder said without batting an eye.

"Do you have any shame?" the Second Elder blurted out, expressing the thoughts of everyone in the room.

"None of your business. If they don't even want your family's meager dowry, just leave. Don't embarrass yourselves here," the Fifth Elder said.

The Second Elder was furious, but he didn't want to be like the Fifth Elder, who had no dignity or image, so he turned his back and stopped looking at him.

The Fifth Elder ignored him and urged Dongfang Mian to come with him. Dongfang Mian hesitated, seemingly moved by the Fifth Elder's betrothal gifts.

The Second Elder was startled, fearing that Dongfang Mian's unique methods would fall into the hands of the Meng family, and quickly said, "I will double his betrothal gifts."

The Fifth Elder rolled his eyes at him and said, "Double it? Wouldn't that be more than the betrothal gifts we gave our young master? That's not fair to the Ren family."

Upon hearing this, the Second Elder's ears turned red, and he recklessly shouted at him, "I won't betroth the young master anymore, can I betroth myself instead?"

Dongfang Mian was almost killed by that shout. Looking at the Second Elder with his wrinkled face, she was speechless. She had never imagined such a scene.

Seeing the two arguing, Dongfang Mian shook her head helplessly and said, "Alright, I'm not playing with you two old guys anymore. I don't want your betrothal gifts."

The Second Elder and the Fifth Elder immediately looked at her with gloomy expressions.

Dongfang Mian said, "All you want is my knowledge of alchemy and weapon crafting. I can give it to you, you just need to help me find one thing."

"What is it?" the two asked.

Dongfang Mian took out a piece of paper on which a lifelike drawing of the artifact fragments was made. The Second Elder and the Fifth Elder examined it carefully and shook their heads, indicating that they had never seen it before.

"I will go home and ask the family head. If this item is in our Ren family..." the Second Elder said.

"I will only provide the alchemy method to the Ren family, not the weapon forging method to the Meng family," Dongfang Mian said decisively.

"It's not certain who will find it first, so don't be too happy yet," the Fifth Elder said before hurrying away.

Not to be outdone, the second elder immediately returned to the clan and convened a meeting of elders.

"Aju, go find a map, a map of the entire Immortal City teleportation array," Dongfang Mian said.

"What do you need that for?" Ah Ju asked, completely bewildered.

"We'll run away as soon as we get our hands on the goods," Dongfang Mian said.

However, plans can't keep up with changes. Before the elders of both families could reply, trouble struck Dongfangmian.

Since there had been no news from the Second Elder and Fifth Elder after they returned, Dongfang Mian decided to go shopping out of boredom. For some reason, Aju suddenly said that she would give Dongfang Mian and Yan Lin some free time, so she decided to wait at their residence with Ahua.

Little did they know that this very decision would lead to Aju and Ahua being kidnapped.

Although Aju possessed the strength of the Ancient Realm, the Immortal Realm was different from other places. There was no sleeping Emperor Ancestor in the clan to oversee things. It was unknown how Meng Nianxi, the young master of the Meng family, persuaded the Ancestor, but in any case, the Ancestor launched a sneak attack, and Aju and Ahua were captured and taken to the Meng family.

Perhaps it was because Meng Nianxi learned that the Ren family wanted to use Ren Qingyun as a means to win over Dongfang Mian, and even proposed to give more betrothal gifts than she had, which greatly embarrassed Meng Nianxi, that she impulsively did this in private.

When the news spread, the Ren family cheered. Now the Meng family had withdrawn from the competition. With Dongfang Mian's unique alchemy techniques, the Ren family would surely be able to open up a whole new world for themselves. At that time, the Meng family would only have one path: to submit and beg for mercy.