Chapter 81 - Keeping Ones Word (2/2)

”Please, wait!” The voice spoke once more. A shadow arrived like a flash of brilliance before Qiao Qinya, obviously in a protective stance. Yan Zaizen finally lifted his eyes to see the woman's appearance. She looked like an older more mature version of Qiao Qinya's, with blonde hair, azure eyes, and an explosive body.

”One hundred million.” Yan Zaizen said calmly.

What?!

One hundred million? One hundred million of what?

Xinya, a half-step True Essence Cultivator, face darkened and her brows furrowed. Others may not understand what he meant, but she clearly did. The moment her daughter fought with Tao, she had kept her eyes and ears to the situation. Initially, she intended to not interfere, letting things take its course and the trio to die an unfair death for their insult. However, the situation spiraled swiftly out of control.

With her cultivation base, she still required a few seconds before she could arrive on the scene, and when she recognized Yan Zaizen's soul cultivation, she rushed with post-haste. If her daughter died because of this, she would have no one to cry to.

Especially since she knew who this man was. Initially, there was no face to the mask, but after seeing his soul cultivation on full display and its silver-blue appearance, it could only be 'him'. The incident that happened out of Xiāo City occurred nearly two months ago, as a high-ranking cultivator, how could she not know about it?

This man robbed the imperial family, stole the sky-rank mountain of Xiāo City, and defeated the Xiāo City Lord! Each of these feats alone could be considered extraordinary, but together? It was beyond such words.

She was inwardly surprised at his youthfulness, but couldn't let that cloud her judgment or take him any less seriously. ”I would first like to apologize for this incident on behalf of the entire Sky Heart City.” She said with grace, her eyes containing no trace of arrogance but filled with apologetic intent.

Yan Zaizen couldn't help but snort at her words. If he was weak, wouldn't he have been sentenced to death? Yet, she apologizes. Who would buy such bullshit?

”Two hundred million.” His only response was an increase to the number he declared. This caused a shock to Xinya, and she knew that using normal methods on someone like this wouldn't be smart. Taking a deep breath, she nodded in assent. ”Agreed. Can you please-” As she looked towards Qiao Jianhong, Yan Zaizen interrupted her with a calm voice.

”He has two choices: cripple himself or I cripple him.” His tone may have been calm but his words were vicious. Did they take him for someone who wouldn't go through with his word? This man will regret his actions and they will pay.

Xinya's brow furrowed and she grew angry at his unwillingness to suffer a single loss, but requiring all others to do so. If she agreed to this with the eyes of tens of thousands watching, what face would she have left in Sky Heart City?

”I'll add an additional one hundred million if you can spare him.” She offered, obviously willing to lose wealth but not willing to lose face.

”Three hundred million.” He said, directly raising the price once more. He turned towards Qiao Jianhong and asked, ”What's your choice?” He brought Qiao Jianhong to stand upright, his body still restrained by the giant hand.

”Choi...ce?” From the conversion just now, Qiao Jianhong felt that he was being freed for a price, but he still wanted him to make a choice? It was at that moment that Xinya and the rest realized what had just happened. The crowd sucked in a wad of cold air in response.

Did he just increase the base price for letting this go because she offered to pay him for mercy? How vicious! He even increased it by the same amount she offered, what if she offered more? Would the price be increased by that much?

”You have five seconds.” Yan Zaizen declared, ignoring the gazes of Xinya and the crowd.

Qiao Jianhong was filled with fear, turning towards Xinya with hopes of her interfering to handle the situation. However, she stood there with her brows furrowed as if she was calculating the situation. Indeed, she was calculating the situation. Unfortunately, in a world of cultivation, true power exceeds all else.

Her face could only suffer this slap.

Yan Zaizen could rival the peak power of the entire continent, but their Sky Heart City could barely handle a single initial-True Essence Realm Cultivator if they had all their experts together. With one of them missing, and their backer —the Xiāo City Lord — being severely injured, this entire situation could immediately erupt into something irreparable.

Regrettably, she could do nothing for the situation if Yan Zaizen was adamant on taking action.

Qiao Jianhong eyes were filled with deep fear and hopelessness. If he was crippled, his life as a cultivator was essentially over. As your cultivation increases, so does the stakes. To cripple an Origin Core Realm Cultivator, one had to shatter their origin core and thoroughly ravage their origin source. Not only will their bloodline by incomprehensibly weakened, but their very future in cultivation would be hindered as forming another Origin Core was as likely as ruling the heavens.

”Time's up.” Yan Zaizen declared, his soul energy seeping viciously inside Qiao Jianhong's pores into his meridians, his pathways, his dantian, and surrounding his Origin Core. With a thought, all of it was severed and crushed into fine powder.

There was loud scream that reached the heavens resounding as a result, Qiao Jianhong's body spewed out blood from all of his orifices and his body went limp shortly after. His breathing was so shallow that even a top-tier doctor would assume he was dead.

Yan Zaizen didn't even bother looking at this bloody body, and simply flung it to the side like garbage. He only spoke four words, ”I keep my word.”

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