Chapter 230 (1/2)

”As for what Family Head NanGong said about the state of your NanGong Family, I believe Family Head NanGong is clear about that in your heart. This young n.o.ble is about 90% clear about your NanGong Family's strength. Regardless of whether or not you will believe me, Ling Tian is extremely confident. However, Family Head NanGong is not clear about my strength and the full strength of my Ling Family. So how can you estimate if we will be able to accept the losses?! Ah ah, Family Head NanGong, we are now talking about the alliance which your NanGong Family requires. An alliance is something that both parties must benefit from and have common goals. Furthermore, there must be a party to take the initiative. If the party taking the initiative isn't able to come up with any conditions to satisfy the other party, then such talks of an alliance are no more than empty words.”

NanGong TianLong's eyes turned ferocious as he glared at Ling Tian hatefully for a moment before his gaze turned dim. A trace of anger could then be seen on his boorish face as he panted for a short while before finally calming down, ”I wonder what other conditions young n.o.ble wants? You may list them out!”

Ling Tian smiled, ”After this battle, all the a.s.sets of the Yang Family in the Sky Bearing Empire will belong to my Ling Family. As for their a.s.sets outside the empire, we will split it 60 to 40. I will take 60 and you 40. Your NanGong Family will only have the rights to the money but no rights to interfere in the operations of those a.s.sets! What does Family Head NanGong think?”

”You!” NanGong TianLong stood up and pointed at Ling Tian in rage. He was angered to the point he could not say anything for a long while as his body trembled, ”What do you think my NanGong Family is?”

Ling Tian sneered, ”How can two people share a narrow bed? Does Family Head NanGong not understand my intentions? For your NanGong Family wis.h.i.+ng to enter Sky Bearing, there isn't any room for discussion at all. If Sky Bearing cannot belong to my Ling Family after the Yang Family perishes, what is the point for us to cooperate? While Ling Tian isn't smart, I will never accept a loss. If we only change the Yang Family to your NanGong Family, what does our Ling Family stand to gain from that? Just so our Ling Family can have a new opponent? Haha…”

NanGong TianLong let out a snort, ”Everything in Sky Bearing will belong to your Ling Family. This was originally within my plans and I do not have any opposition in regards to that. I would still be able to accept it if you were to take 60% of the other a.s.sets. However, why will my NanGong Family be prohibited from interfering with their operations?! Isn't this being too unreasonable? Does young n.o.ble really want to treat my NanGong Family as just a runner to do your errands? This condition of yours is too harsh and we will not accept it!”

Ling Tian's eyes glimmered, ”Ah ah, as the saying goes, ask for sky-high prices and pay the price of the earth. Since Family Head NanGong isn't satisfied, what do you think we should do?”

At this moment, Ling Chen walked over with a flask of wine and a few dishes.

Just as Ling Tian predicted, this la.s.s did indeed take out the strong wine that he had served to the Xue brothers. Everyone around Ling Tian didn't have a good impression towards NanGong TianLong. For him to covet the a.s.sets of the Ling Family, he deserved to die! Why should he be served good wine?

However, this low-grade wine in Ling Chen's eyes was still a one-of-a-kind fragrant wine to NanGong TianLong! The fragrance of the wine seeped out and NanGong TianLong swallowed hard. However, NanGong TianLong was the head of the family after all. After gathering his concentration, he continued, ”If both of our families work together, the Yang Family will perish for sure. Since both of our families are going to work together, the split of benefits must be fair as well. The Ling Family has already managed to clean up your family's internal condition and has overtaken the Yang Family to become the number one family in Sky Bearing. The benefits of your Ling Family can be said to be enormous. However, young n.o.ble actually demanded 60% of the Yang Family's a.s.sets outside of Sky Bearing! Furthermore, you still want to prevent my NanGong Family from interfering with them. This is a little too much.” NanGong TianLong originally wanted to say that he should be the one with 60% with Ling Tian taking 40% but decided to swallow his words. If he were to really anger Ling Tian today, it would have been meaningless for him to hand over the name list and every NanGong Family member in Sky Bearing would certainly perish. Such a loss was not something that their NanGong Family could bear!

”This young n.o.ble had already said previously, ask for sky-high prices and pay the price of the earth. Since Family Head NanGong isn't satisfied, you can just state what you think.” Seeing that NanGong TianLong finished saying what he wanted, Ling Tian signaled to Ling Chen to pour him wine.

”All the a.s.sets outside Sky Bearing will be split equally amongst us! Half each! We will not interfere with each other's operations!” NanGong TianLong clenched his teeth and made a concession!

”There still isn't news?” Ling Tian frowned and swept the wine gla.s.s that NanGong TianLong had just used onto the floor.

”There isn't any news about Su HuaiRen and Little Chrysanthemum.” Ling Chen looked at Ling Tian's expression with a tinge of nervousness, ”However, ever since the Northern Wei Envoy, Meng LiGe, came to Sky Bearing, they haven't made any moves. They only s.h.i.+fted into the Smoky Thea Tower yesterday. I heard that the vice envoy, s.h.i.+ YiTan, and Meng LiGe are not on good terms. s.h.i.+ YiTan seems to be making things difficult for Meng LiGe and there are even signs of Meng LiGe being confined. It is really puzzling.”

”s.h.i.+ YiTan?” Ling Tian responded with an 'oh'. All of a sudden, he burst out into laughter as he spit out the wine in his mouth, ”This name of his really makes me completely speechless! s.h.i.+ YiTan? A pile of dogsh*t?