vrcanaries Chapter 163 A Mutually Beneficial Transaction
Chapter 163 A Mutually Beneficial Transaction
Chapter 163 A Mutually Beneficial Transaction
"Spirit crystals?" Zhuo Yang feigned surprise. "Where would I get spirit crystals? The Perfume Cruise Ship has sunk; the spirit crystals probably went down to the bottom of the sea with the ship."
"If you want, go and salvage the shipwreck!"
He was whistling and looking at the sky at a 45-degree angle, acting as if it had nothing to do with him.
Zhou Han looked at him with a wry smile, her lips twitching for a while before she lowered her voice and said, "I knew doing business with you would be difficult; I wouldn't get a single penny. Tomorrow morning, a truck will come, full of rare and precious herbs. Consider it payment from Longting for the goods!"
"Once the car arrives, I'll help you salvage the sunken ship." Zhuo Yang smiled faintly and spread his hands to indicate that he had nothing.
Zhou Hanxiao shook her head and sighed, "Stop pretending. We have people on the Perfume Ship, and everything is under our control!"
"Then you should know even better that I didn't manage to snatch the treasure!" Zhuo Yang stood with his hands behind his back and snorted disdainfully.
The people from Longting were on the Perfume Cruise Ship. It was such a thrilling and exciting time, but no one from their side offered any help. Isn't that infuriating?
Zhou Hanxiao was increasingly helpless and could only explain, "The experts of the Dragon Court are all in seclusion, and the remaining Golden Core cultivators are all on missions. There isn't even a single expert at headquarters to oversee things, and there's even less chance of an expert on the Perfume Ship. He's just a minor cultivator in the Fusion stage, how can he help you?"
"But speaking of which," he chuckled, "who is that stunning beauty who fights alongside you? We in the Dragon Court don't even have any information on her. She must be at least at the Golden Core stage."
Zhuo Yang's face hardened, and he said coldly, "You don't need to worry about who she is. I won't tell you even if you ask!"
Zhou Hanxiao is a deep person who rarely gives definite answers. After trying to get information out of Zhuo Yang for so long, she didn't get a single useful word out of him.
Not satisfied, he asked again, "Zhuo Yang, you've had quite a haul this time, haven't you? What good stuff do you have that we, the Dragon Court, want to take?"
"No, I didn't get a single treasure!" Zhuo Yang said coldly, glancing at him.
"You're so stubborn!" Zhou Hanxiao gritted her teeth. "Fine, I'll pretend I've never seen the other things. I won't be greedy."
Zhuo Yang snorted: "I'm very curious, as the manager of the Southeast District of Longting, what exactly is your cultivation level? How come I can't tell?"
"It's just the Heartbeat stage. I just used some methods to hide it. After all, if people from the Dragon Court could easily have their cultivation level revealed, they would find it difficult to move an inch." Zhou Hanxiao shrugged and lit another cigarette for himself. "I admire you. You broke through to the Golden Core stage in just a few days."
"So, are you going to that ancient tomb in the north or not? The Heavenly Fire Lotus is definitely still inside. In the past week, three more groups of people have entered the tomb, and none of them have come out."
Taking a deep drag on his cigarette, Zhou Hanxiao's face showed a rare serious expression.
"No..." Zhuo Yang wanted to refuse, but a thought flashed through his mind and he didn't say the words of refusal.
The Heavenly Fire Lotus is the most precious treasure that can be produced in the mortal realm. Even more powerful treasures can only be produced in the Immortal Realm, Demon Realm, Underworld, and Demon Realm, places nourished by spiritual energy.
Lü Qianqian cultivates the Phoenix True Fire. If she uses the Heavenly Flower Fire Lotus to refine pills or create magic weapons, it can greatly enhance her cultivation level or combat power.
"Seven days from now, a treasure hunting team will be gathering in Beima City. It's an official treasure hunt, organized by Longting. I'll be waiting for you there." Zhou Hanxiao took another puff of his cigarette, his expression relaxing slightly. "If you can bring that stunning beauty along, I believe that together you two will definitely be able to obtain the Heavenly Fire Lotus!"
"Who said I was going?" Zhuo Yang glanced at him coldly.
"Did I say you absolutely had to go?" Zhou Hanxiao asked in surprise.
Then the two of them chuckled coldly, their laughter echoing across the tombstone hill in the middle of the night, making Xiao Diao, who was eavesdropping in the distance, tremble all over.
Those two cunning old foxes, every word they utter is a test of each other!
I was sold out in front of them and I still had to help them count the money!
Little Diao shuddered again, no longer daring to eavesdrop, and quickly fled back to the villa.
Zhuo Yang glanced at the tree where Xiao Diao was hiding and snorted, "Brother Hanxiao, the Dragon Court's trucks arrived in Lingzhou a long time ago. What are you waiting for by hiding them from me?"
"I think you're thinking of 'smiling in the afterlife'!" Zhou Hanxiao flicked away her cigarette butt in annoyance, then took out another cigarette and lit it. "Cash on delivery. I won't try to cheat you. If you rip me off, I could never afford to lose all those rare and precious materials even if I worked for nothing in Longting my whole life!"
"Alright, no one's eavesdropping anymore, you can tell me the truth now!" Zhuo Yang smiled faintly.
Zhou Hanxiao glanced around and said lazily, "Your little sable is probably not simple. It's definitely more than just an intelligent spirit beast!"
"You don't need to worry about that. Just say what you need to say. I'm going back to sleep!" Zhuo Yang glanced at him, his eyes sharp and filled with murderous intent.
Anyone who dares to mess with Little Diao will die!
"Don't be so nervous, I was just saying it offhand." Zhou Hanxiao chuckled a few times. "You were too impulsive about the Fu family's matter, you even burned down their house. Longting knows the situation and won't interfere, but it's hard to say that people from the martial arts world might take this opportunity to make trouble for you."
"You need to know that there were five major exorcism families back then, and the Fu family was just one of them. What if the other four families found out that the Fu family had been wiped out and joined forces to deal with you..."
Before she could finish speaking, Zhou Hanxiao knew the importance of leaving things unsaid and deliberately kept Zhuo Yang hanging.
"Hmph!" Zhuo Yang sneered, "I'll kill one if one comes, two if two come, and if all four come, I'll wipe out the entire Ghost Exorcising Clan, just to make this world a little less evil!"
"It's good that you have confidence." Zhou Hanxiao was secretly surprised. Where did you get your confidence?
He didn't know that Liu Yubao, who was beside Zhuo Yang, was a ghost cultivator. If he had known, he would have known where Zhuo Yang's confidence came from.
"The last thing is a deal," Zhou Hanxiao said, stretching out his arms with a lazy smile. "From the moment you returned to Lingzhou, someone has been targeting you. What happened these past two days was all arranged by that person. Do you want to know who it is?"
"The Wang family!" Zhuo Yang sneered disdainfully, "Only the Wang family would resort to such underhanded tactics!"
"Don't you want to know who will actually carry it out?" Zhou Han smiled, becoming increasingly enigmatic.
"Conditions!" Zhuo Yang glanced at him.
"That's more like it." Zhou Han smiled lewdly, rubbing his hands together. "You help me refine a kind of pill. I'll provide the ingredients myself, but you can't tell anyone!"
"No problem!" Zhuo Yang glanced at him sideways. What was this guy up to?
This is the first time I've seen Zhou Hanxiao laugh like this; she's completely abandoned the composure expected of a manager in Longting.
"That guy's name is Yang Xi, Wang Shanlong's lackey. He's been with him for ten years, and now he's with Ma Jian'an. I can't say any more details, it's against the rules," Zhou Hanxiao said in a very low voice, then leaned closer to Zhuo Yang with a lewd look on his face...