109 Extortion (1/2)
'Crap!'
Xu Miao never expected that Xu Xiuying would appear here. His hearts stopped beating for a second from fear and worries.
In a panic, Xu Miao glanced at Jia Shan. He reviewed his options to come up with an emergency solution. He already assumed that Xu Xiuying would come toward their direction and capture them.
'Should I surrender again? Can I talk my way out this time? I can sell out this Jia Shan for my life, but it will lose my opportunity to get his tutelage and the plot armor. But if my negotiation fails, everybody will die here!'
While Xu Miao and others were nervous, Xu Xiuying snorted and turned around. The silhouette ignored them and walked the other way, heading northeast toward the way that Yao Lan and others had planned to use.
As everyone thought that Xu Xiuying didn't notice them, she suddenly appeared before Xu Miao as if she had teleported.
With a cold voice, she whispered, ”Son. Surrender Xie Tian's time-and-space technique to me right now, or I'll kill you. Don't you ever think that I didn't notice you lots hiding behind the corner!”
Xu Miao's heart sank. He felt as if he was in a horror movie and Xu Xiuying was a boogieman. Her glowing red pupils stared into Xu Miao's soul in his eyes, ready to kill him at any moment.
The situation was hopeless.
Without a choice, Xu Miao revealed his hand and tossed a scroll, a backup manual that he had copied from the mural, to Xu Xiuying.
The scroll didn't fall into the dirty water. It floated in the pink fog, it flew toward the silhouette of Xu Xiuying. She caught it with one hand and muttered.
”You should have done this earlier.”
Xu Miao negotiated, ”You have what you want. Leave us alone.”
”Honestly, I could have killed you and refined your corpse to get your bloodline and secrets right now…”
Xu Miao bit his lower lips. It was frustrating that he was powerless against this monster right now, but he had to do anything to survive.
”What else do you want?”
”How did you cure those 10 girls?”
As expected, Xu Xiuying noticed the 10 new yin slaves, who had practice a demonic art and gone insane.
”I turned them into my yin slaves.”
”That's nice. Give them back to me.”
”What if I refuse?”
”I'll kill you.”
”…”
Everyone gulped. None of them moved an inch, praying that Xu Miao wouldn't abandon the girls to save his skin.
”I'll give you spirit stones in exchange for the 10 girls.”
Fortunately, Xu Miao chose not to give up the girls just yet. He wanted to bribe Xu Xiuying and free them.
”Why should I accept your puny offer when I can kill you and steal all your treasures?”
Jia Shan, Wei Yuan, Jiang Lan, and Kang Yan's faces changed. This was what they feared the most.
”I know a secret space that only I can access. If I die, all items in the space will disappear with me. It's up to you if you'll kill your golden goose,” Xu Miao continued to bluff Xu Xiuying with a half-truth. He knew full well that she could easily kill him and rob all his items, but he had to try.
Yet, the trick worked. As Xu Xiuying overly relied on her eye artifacts, she used the eyes to scan if Xu Miao told the truth. Of course, he didn't lie.
Xu Xiuying hesitated. She clicked her tongue as she didn't dare to open the golden goose's belly to take the golden eggs since she might not be able to take anything.
”Give me your heaven-grade weapon.”
In the end, Xu Xiuying compromised. She succumbed to the bluff.
There was no way that Xu Miao would yield Killer Queen since she held the key to counter Xie Tian's time-reversing skill. He refused, ”Not possible. The heaven-grade weapon is bound to me. If I give it to you, you'll kill me and override the ownership.”
”Tsk! Then, give me all your sky-grade and earth-grade items! I still remember that you said you have 20 sky-grade and 100 earth-grade. Give them all to me!”
Sky-grade weapons might be weaker than Killer Queen, but they were still uncommon among 6th-stage cultivators. Among the top sects other than the Silver Phoenix Sect or the Imperial Clan, they usually had 3 to 4 sky-grade weapons as their organization's secret treasures.
By having all of Xu Miao's items, the Silver Phoenix Sect could recover from the loss that Xiong Zhenzhen had caused. The Xu Clan would also become as prosperous as the Imperial Clan.
But Xu Miao never complied with Xu Xiuying's demand.
”That's also unfortunate. I don't have them anymore. You see this ring? All items in my ring are everything I have. How about this? I'll give you my spatial ring. Will you let us go?”
Again, Xu Miao used his dummy spatial ring as a decoy. He always deposited important items in his invisible ring, [Ring of Yin Slave Master], so Xu Xiuying could never steal his items.
As such, Xu Xiuying couldn't detect Xu Miao's lies again as the latter revealed half-truth.
Xu Xiuying's face twitched, ”Don't you know your position? Do you think you can bargain?”
”As I said, take it or leave it! I could have offered you a meager raw spirit stone, but it's against my principal. I'm a generous nobleman that knows how to repay someone's kindness with even more kindness. You should be grateful that I'm willing to give you this much.”