MMB Chapter 440 - 286: Seizure by Force
Chapter 440 - 286: Seizure by Force
As soon as the words left the mouth of Demon Venerable Fire Thunder, Tiger Mountain Monarch’s gaze immediately tightened.
It was too obvious; this Demon Venerable intended to seize by force.
The Demon Race is so direct, not even knowing to obscure their intentions.
"This..." Tiger Mountain Monarch, not very skilled in strategy, hesitated momentarily, trying his best to analyze how to maximize benefits.
"Tiger Mountain Monarch, if this succeeds, besides a ten percent commission, we of the Red Flame Demon Race shall appoint you as an elder within the clan!" Demon Venerable Fire Thunder urged eagerly.
"Agreed!" Tiger Mountain Monarch decided not to exert effort thinking. He was already a broker; it’s fine as long as he got Spirit Stones, and if he became an elder of the Red Flame Demon Race, he could play freely with the female demons of the tribe. As for the party being robbed, what’s that to him; he’s not the one doing the robbing.
"This time, the Red Phosphorus Gold Ore still belongs to that friend Jin from the Jiuli Dynasty, but he was tricked, stuck with a batch of puppets, causing huge deficits in Spirit Stones, hence the urgency to sell all accumulated Red Phosphorus Gold Ore at once."
"Hehehe~ Human Race cultivators from the Jiuli Dynasty? Then it’s even better. Tiger Mountain Monarch, you must mediate!" Demon Venerable Fire Thunder laughed horribly, making the sound chill the soul.
Last time, they didn’t steal because there were resource transactions; this time, without resource transactions, there’s only stealing.
"Does Demon Venerable have any plans? This time, that friend Jin is in a dire situation, desperate, so Demon Venerable can state conditions." Tiger Mountain Monarch grinned slyly.
Demon Venerable Fire Thunder squeezed his chin several times more excitedly: "Then it’s best to first bring all Red Phosphorus Gold Ore, then we’ll inspect the goods in person... As for location, it’d be best at our tribe... No, no, that would scare the children, better to fix it at their Jiuli territory, Yong’an City!"
"Haha, that shouldn’t be a problem, however, it’d be best to offer some sort of deposit to ease his mind." Tiger Mountain Monarch was quite confident, stemming from Li Jizhou’s talk of urgency.
"Let’s settle it this way! Here, is it enough for the deposit?" Demon Venerable Fire Thunder agreed, casually retrieving a head-sized piece of Fire Spirit Essence from his Storage Ring.
The Demon Race doesn’t have much need for Spirit Stones; the Nanling area is vast, and most strong demon races aren’t numerous, so Spirit Vein resources aren’t very sought after. They often need to trade tribal specialties for required resources.
Tiger Mountain Monarch, being a broker, naturally has reserves of Spirit Stones.
"This piece of Fire Spirit Essence is worth two hundred thousand Middle Grade Spirit Stones." Tiger Mountain Monarch nodded in satisfaction; in fact, the Fire Spirit Essence refined by the Red Flame Demon Race sells very well among the Human Race, especially to those with Fire Attribute Spirit Roots, such a large piece could go for five hundred thousand.
"Haha, that’s great, that’s great; thank you, Tiger Mountain Monarch!" Demon Venerable Fire Thunder laughed heartily, his eyes nonetheless overflowing with coldness.
The Demon Race understands the phrase "the strong are revered" clearer than any other.
They ignore everything, worshiping only the strong!
As for a demon like Tiger Mountain Monarch, who shows a bit of cleverness, he despises them greatly and looks down on them.
Associating with such self-degrading demons is a shame for Demon Venerable Fire Thunder, even more so when they take advantage like this.
Last time, the quantity of Red Phosphorus Gold Ore wasn’t enough for him to advance, so he spared their life temporarily, but this time, daring to take his Fire Spirit Essence was simply courting death!
All of Tiger Mountain Monarch’s thoughts revolved around interests, unaware of Demon Venerable Fire Thunder’s intentions, happily taking his leave.
Meanwhile, Li Jizhou pushed away the Red Flame female demon pressing almost his entire body, pulling his other hand from the White Tiger.
It wasn’t just fear that his current Middle Stage of Foundation Establishment might have his roots broken by the two Tier Four female demons; it’s also because his Primordial Yang is intact, and if his first breakthrough could be through the Secret Technique of Dual Cultivation, his cultivation would benefit greatly.
This is also the reason he waited so long for the four Hong Luan.
Having lived three lifetimes, how could he be blinded by lust?
"I want to go out for a walk!" Li Jizhou immediately took the four women outside, with Red Flame and White Tiger following closely.
Roaming once more in the City of Ten Thousand Races, Li Jizhou entered every shop he came across, talking about the Red Phosphorus Gold Ore with conspicuous unsteadiness.
Yet, every shop saw Red Flame and White Tiger and decisively shook their heads, refused to do the trade, each visit from entering to leaving was extremely brief.
"Young master, while it’s not certain Tiger Hu has the largest business in the City of Ten Thousand Races, he’s definitely the most well-connected. Since Tiger Hu has agreed, he will surely be able to solve your worries." White Tiger, tasked by Tiger Mountain Monarch, finally spoke to persuade.
Li Jizhou looked anxious: "You don’t understand, the quantity is too large, I’m afraid Tiger Mountain Monarch can’t handle so much; I must keep looking."
They were by then already at the outskirts of the City of Ten Thousand Races, where sporadically open were small shops.
White Tiger just smiled and said nothing more.
"Hmm, there’s still one here; let’s go in and ask." Li Jizhou stepped inside.
At that moment, Hong Luan called softly: "Xiaohuang?"
Li Jizhou turned around and saw the usually childishly inclined Cang Huang, typically unbothered, only caring about eating and fighting, now trembling all over, her big, grape-like eyes staring dazedly into the shop.
"Xiaohuang?" Li Jizhou called her softly too.
Since entering the City of Ten Thousand Races, all four half-demon servants were somewhat ill at ease, yet Cang Huang seemed the best, but now was obviously abnormal.
"Do you sense something?" Li Jizhou glanced toward the shop.
Cang Huang’s chubby little face turned pale, her expression dazed briefly before looking at Li Jizhou: "I... I sense... my parents!"
"Your parents?" Li Jizhou and the other three servants were all stunned.
The other three servants mostly knew their ancestral bloodline, their demon race heritage.
Yet Cang Huang, when bought by Jin Zhaoyu, couldn’t explain her race.
Before Li Jizhou and the others could ask more, suddenly two demon races rushed out of the shop.
Both demons were full demons, one male and one female, sharing Cang Huang’s bright golden hair, but they were short, only about one and a half meters tall.
Unlike Cang Huang, they didn’t have two naturally cow-horn-like flesh braids trailing behind their heads.
"You wretch, we finally found you; this time we’ll strip your skin!" The male demon glared at Cang Huang, confirming through bloodline sensing that this half-demon was their daughter and their shame.
"Dad... Mo..." Cang Huang trembled as she spoke.
"Shut up! We have no shame like you, doesn’t deserve calling us parents, hurry back to the tribe!" The female demon rudely interrupted before Cang Huang could say mom.
The two demons even rushed up intending to seize Cang Huang.
"Stop!" Hong Luan and Cyan Dome immediately stood in front of Cang Huang.
However, the two demons rushed with such force, though without any magical power fluctuations, their bodies were like mountains, instantly knocking Hong Luan and Cyan Dome back ten meters.
Subsequently, one hand each grabbed Cang Huang’s hands.
Yet Cang Huang seemed entirely unresisting.
"Stop them!" Li Jizhou decisively ordered Red Flame and White Tiger.
"What are you doing? We’re from the ancient Barbaric Fiend Race, this is our family matter." The two demon races previously ignoring Cyan Dome and Hong Luan didn’t pay any mind, even their divine power was kept tightly constrained, ready to kill without a second thought.
However, faced now with the two actual demon races serving Tiger Mountain Monarch, they dared not make a rash move.
"What exactly is going on?" Li Jizhou saw Cang Huang act in such a manner for the first time, his expression darkened, staring directly at the two demons of the Barbaric Fiend Race.