Chapter 1235: Chapter 1235 - Capítulo 1235: 1220: Extorting for Profit!
Capítulo 1235: Chapter 1220: Extorting for Profit!
Ye Zhen and Zhao Zhong returned to the quiet little house for less than two hours before Lord Xitian arrived, dust-laden, with a group of old eunuchs like Zhao Zhong.
Obviously, he didn’t want too many people to know about this disgraceful and humiliating situation.
As for these old eunuchs, each one is extremely loyal to the royal family. After the fact, as long as Lord Xitian is willing, at his command, these eunuchs could immediately take their own lives.
“Haha, it seems Lord Xitian has come to his senses. I’m curious, what price does the King set for his own life?” Ye Zhen greeted with a smile.
The corner of Lord Xitian’s mouth twitched, “Five hundred Psychic Spirit Pills, ten million Low Grade Spirit Stones, one hundred thousand Mid-grade Spirit Stones, five thousand High Grade Spirit Stones….”
“Senior Zhao, let’s go serve the Marquis!”
Before Lord Xitian could finish, Ye Zhen was already pulling Zhao Gao, ready to take off into the sky.
This move scared Lord Xitian terribly. Unable to wield his Spiritual Power and unable to take to the air, he couldn’t dare instruct the inner eunuchs under him to intercept. In his urgency, he almost screamed himself hoarse, “Don’t, don’t go, let’s talk this through, let’s talk this through, we can still negotiate!”
Ye Zhen, of course, wasn’t actually leaving. He slowly descended back to the ground, glaring coldly at Lord Xitian, “We can negotiate, but I need sincerity! If the King thinks I’m some ignorant fool from the backwoods and plans to deceive me, then there’s no need for further discussion.”
“I understand, I understand, I will show authenticity!” Lord Xitian was sweating profusely; wealth can be accumulated, but a lost life is truly gone.
Lord Xitian was also frustrated. According to Princess Jie Youu, Ye Zhen, being of a Water Demon background, could not be very knowledgeable.
He originally thought to use some superficial wealth to deceive him, but he didn’t expect Ye Zhen to be so difficult.
“Then I have to see what kind of sincerity it is!” Ye Zhen shouted, “But if there’s any more attempt to deceive me, I will leave immediately and won’t waste another word with you!”
“Captain Ye, rest assured. If you return to serve the Marquis well, in time, even the bits that fall from the Marquis’s fingertips will surpass the wealth of several Xitian Counties.
Why waste words here?” Zhao Zhong’s soft voice timely interjected.
The corner of his mouth twitched wildly, and Lord Xitian gritted his back teeth and said, “Our Xitian County’s treasury, Captain Ye, you can help yourself! As much as your Storage Ring can hold, you can take!”
“Is it only the treasury?” Ye Zhen asked calmly.
“Captain Ye, our treasury is open to you! Such great sincerity…..”
“Nonsense!”
Ye Zhen rudely interrupted Lord Xitian, “Do you take me for a fool? Your Xitian County’s treasury is just the most basic; the real treasures are in the Royal Palace Treasure Vault!”
Lord Xitian looked at Ye Zhen in astonishment. This thing, who according to Jie Youu was a wild creature, actually knew about the Royal Palace Treasure Vault.
However, the Royal Palace Treasure Vault wasn’t much of a secret. After thinking for a while, Lord Xitian nodded again, “Alright, this time I admit defeat, you can also help yourself in the Royal Palace Treasure Vault, as long as you can take it away!”
“I hear that King Jie also has a private treasure vault?” Ye Zhen squinted and smiled.
This time, Lord Xitian jumped up as if a snake had its tail stepped on, “How do you know about my private vault? Don’t even think about going in there! It’s just my private collection, nothing valuable, nothing valuable at all!”
“What, is King Jie suggesting we should end our negotiations here?” Ye Zhen spread his hands!
Lord Xitian stood there, glaring at Ye Zhen with a grinding jaw, and finally, he abruptly stood up and said, “Alright, I agree! As long as you can take it away, it’s yours!”
“Wait, no hurry to leave!” Ye Zhen stopped Lord Xitian, “Besides King Jie’s private vault, I’ve heard that the Xitian Jie Clan also has a Clan Guardian Secret Vault, and I’m very eager to take a look inside that Secret Vault!”
Lord Xitian’s body inexplicably trembled, and then he showed a look of utter confusion, “Clan Guardian Secret Vault? How would I know?”
“Is Captain Ye trying to trick an old man like me? I am the Clan Leader of the Xitian Jie Clan, if there were a Clan Guardian Secret Vault, how could I not know?”
Ye Zhen looked at Lord Xitian with a knowing smile, “Since Lord Xitian cannot recall, Senior Zhao, let’s return and wait until Lord Xitian remembers the Clan Guardian Secret Vault, then we can discuss it again!”
“Alright, this old servant will do as Captain Ye commands!”
Upon hearing Zhao Zhong’s voice, Lord Xitian suddenly realized, looking at Zhao Zhong with eyes that could kill!
Lord Xitian finally understood completely that Ye Zhen’s detailed knowledge of their Xitian County’s wealth must have come from Zhao Zhong’s guidance.
Only someone like Zhao Zhong, who has long walked in the shadows, could know the wealth of their Xitian County so well.
After a moment’s silence, Lord Xitian said slowly, “Captain Ye, our Jie Clan indeed has a Clan Guardian Secret Vault! But the Secret Vault cannot be opened unless the clan faces annihilation!”
“Would the dismissal of this Lord Xitian’s title count as a disaster for the Jie Clan?” Ye Zhen squinted and smiled, “According to the Law of Great Zhou, those without heirs are stripped of titles!”
Zhao Zhong’s voice laughed sinisterly, “If the Jie Clan’s Xitian title were revoked, Xitian County would be exterminated and annexed within ten days.
Typically, other enfeoffed nations would treat the Jie Clan’s kinfolk lightly by sending the males to the Death Soldier Camp, selling off the good-looking women, and killing all the elders. In more severe cases, they eliminate them completely!”
These few words, Zhao Zhong said lightly, but in his words, there was an indescribable smell of blood, making even Ye Zhen shiver involuntarily, let alone Lord Xitian.
Lord Xitian’s face suddenly turned extremely pale, “You… you all…”
“King Jie, spending money to eliminate disaster!” Zhao Zhong’s voice rang out again.
Witnessing this scene, Ye Zhen couldn’t help but sigh inwardly. The eunuch’s mind is indeed different from ordinary people. Once promised a heavy sum, he was even more invested in this matter than Ye Zhen himself.
After a while, Lord Xitian slumped into a chair as if deflated, “Alright, Clan Guardian Secret Vault it is! But still, the same thing, as long as your storage ring can take it away, then it’s yours!
Moreover, it’s only limited to the storage rings you currently carry!”
Saying this, Lord Xitian began to shout hysterically, “If you can’t agree to this condition, then I would rather offer up the entire Xitian County to seek help from the Heavenly Temple Sacred Land, than let you have your way!”
The four words “Heavenly Temple Sacred Land” made Ye Zhen involuntarily look at Zhao Zhong, with a sense of inquiry.
The latter nodded solemnly at Ye Zhen, and in an instant, Ye Zhen understood.
“Alright, the storage rings I’m carrying, as long as they can fit, right?” Ye Zhen asked.
“That’s right, now, take out all your storage rings for me to count!” Lord Xitian’s eyes were bloodshot, his expression somewhat terrifying.
“Now, alright!”
Ye Zhen first revealed the Red Moon Soul Ring, then took off the storage ring hanging from a small cat’s chin whiskers inside his clothing, and then took out a string of five storage rings from his arms.
Among the five storage rings, one was obtained by Ye Zhen from slaying the Chi Jiao, and the other four were obtained by slaying Jiangg Hao and his men.
Among the five storage rings, except for the mid-grade spirit artifact level storage ring of Chief Guo’s son, Guo Yu, the others were all of low grade spiritual ring grade storage rings.
“That’s all!” Ye Zhen said.
Speaking of which, it’s necessary to mention the grade of the storage rings.
A grandmaster artifact refiner capable of refining high grade soul artifacts, let alone storage rings at the soul artifact level, cannot even refine high grade spirit artifact level storage rings.
Even if one can barely refine middle and lower grade spirit artifact level storage rings, no one would dare ask him to refine one.
The main reason is that refining storage rings requires a material called Space Magic Gold, which is extremely precious. Once a refining fails and is destroyed, the loss would be immense.
Typically, a fingernail-sized piece of Space Magic Gold can refine ten low grade spiritual rings, but to refine one low grade soul ring, watermelon-sized Space Magic Gold is needed.
Moreover, the higher the grade of the storage ring being refined, the greater the difficulty and the easier it is to fail!
Like Ye Zhen himself, there is no guarantee of a one hundred percent success rate even in refining low grade spiritual rings!
So even on the Primordial Continent, the most common ones are those low grade spiritual rings that are a thousand meters wide and a hundred meters high.
Soul artifact level rings are extremely rare!
In fact, Ye Zhen has only ever seen one!
This is also one of the reasons Lord Xitian specifically proposed this requirement at this time.
So, even when Ye Zhen took out such a string of storage rings, Lord Xitian just twitched his mouth. Compared to the accumulated wealth of Xitian County, Ye Zhen couldn’t take much!
What pained him was the Clan Guardian Secret Vault!
Taking just one or two treasures from inside would be worth half the national treasury of Xitian County.
“No problem!” Lord Xitian said, twitching at the corner of his mouth.
“Ahem ahem!” Zhao Zhong coughed vigorously twice, unintentionally or otherwise swinging his paper-white palm twice in front of Ye Zhen, with the storage ring on it extremely eye-catching.
Understanding Zhao Zhong’s intention, Ye Zhen immediately took Zhao Zhong’s storage ring and said with a smile to Lord Xitian, “I borrow Senior Zhao’s storage ring for a while, Lord Xitian has no objection, right?”
Lord Xitian’s face turned pale again, glaring fiercely at Ye Zhen, “No objection!”
Lord Xitian could see that the combined capacity of those few storage rings Ye Zhen revealed from his arms wasn’t even as much as Zhao Zhong’s single storage ring!
“Haha, that’s good, let’s go to the Clan Guardian Secret Vault first!” Ye Zhen laughed heartily.
At this moment, Zhao Zhong’s figure flickered, sidling up to Uncle Xinan, and said with a sinister smile, “Since that’s the case, from this moment on, Lord Xitian better not contact anyone, lest someone clears out the treasure vault before we get there!”
Upon hearing this, Lord Xitian nearly spat out blood on the spot!