The remainder of the deal was straightforward. Daffodil and Zhang Lie settled on a set pricing for manuals based on their grade: 

6,000 points for high-grade techniques and frameworks, 

200,000 points for pinnacle-grade,

2,500,000 points for legendary-grade, and finally, 

30,000,000 points for mythic-grade.

With the price settled, Zhang Lie proceeded to sift through the manuals for the ones that he wanted to purchase.

Given his personality, he was naturally going to start from the highest-grade manuals. There were only two mythic-grade manuals, both frameworks: [Rondo of Wind and Storm] and [Arclight Dragon's Imprint].

[Rondo of Wind and Storm] was an unusual dual-attunement framework. 

In the short recording that...