Chapter 345: Failed Negotiation (1/2)
”Ha! A diplomat?”
The topic strayed from Zhu Qiao's marriage partner as soon as Miaomiao declared himself as a foreign diplomat.
Sun Wentai clumped toward Miaomiao as he expanded his domain power. A ghost ship, a medieval galley, appeared behind the sect master, showing the broadside as its cannons aimed at the target, Miaomiao.
Miaomiao also fully transformed into a dragonewt. While confronting a nascent soul cultivator, his obnoxious smirk never left his face.
Sun Wentai stopped walking when he was less than a meter in front of Miaomiao. He leaned forward as if he wanted to kiss his lizard nose, yet his bloodshot eyes stared into Miaomiao's soul, ”If you're the diplomat as you self-proclaimed, you must be Cao Mao, the envoy of Siren City that Sun Jing has informed me, aren't you?”
”Yes, I fucking am.”
”I see,” Sun Wentai sneered and walked back ten steps.
BOOM
One of the galley's cannons spat fire and unleashed a cannonball toward Miaomiao's head.
The latter back-fisted the oncoming cannonball while he continued having a staring competition with Sun Wentai.
CLANK
The cannonball was deflected, but it detonated a second later. Metal element shrapnel, fire element explosive, and Sun Wentai's advanced power, sound element shockwave hit Miaomiao.
The metal element and fire element couldn't harm Miaomiao's physique, but the sound shockwave shook his eardrums. Still, as a mutated dragonewt, the damaged inner organs instantly healed the next second.
New system skills, Dragon Transformation and Supreme Dragon Recovery were the prizes of killing Xie Tian at 400% difficulty. Currently, Miaomiao's resilience was as cockroach-like as Xie Tian, and no ordinary attack could pose a threat to him. Combining with the incomplete Asmodeus Bloodline, Miaomiao's cheat-like existence was already on the tier of OP protagonists in wuxia novels.
Strength boosted one's confidence. Miaomiao fearlessly provoked Sun Wentai and braced the attacks head-on to feel the gap between him and Sun Wentai's strength.
Upon getting attacked, Miaomiao figured out Sun Wentai's basic skills, abilities, his element Qi, advanced element Qi, and nascent soul power. Although Miaomiao hadn't fought Sun Wentai's clone in Isolation Training Space yet, he was confident that he could take on this person in a duel.
However, he might not survive if all Sun Wentai's goons came at him at the same time. After all, no one could tell if a cheat-like protagonist might appear and ambush him.
As Miaomiao didn't want to challenge the entire sect and the Sun Clan at the moment, he didn't retaliate. The villain tilted his head and picked his right ear hole with the long black claw.
”Do it one more time, and you will never see Sun Yun again.”
”!!!”
The threat was effective. Sun Wentai, who was about to follow up with a concentrate fire from the warship, stopped fueling his yang essence to his nascent soul. He dispelled the ghost warship and receded his killing intent.
Still, his facial expression didn't hide his hatred of Miaomiao.
”Where is she?”
”Siren City,” Miaomiao smirked. His lizardman's head made the smile darker, and Sun Wentai thought that the former had mocked him.
”Then, that's the more reason for us to attack Siren City. Now, go back and tell your lord to hand over the girl, and we shall overlook this offense!”
”Seriously, I don't know how you become the sect master of this place with your temperament and intelligence. It seems that you resolved everything with your brute force so far, and you forgot how to be a human.”
”Don't mislead me! You're just an errand boy. Do exactly what I told you to do.”
Miaomiao facepalmed and shook his head. Then, he glanced at Huang Gongfu and pointed at Sun Wentai with his thumb, ”Was he always like this?”
Huang Gongfu couldn't answer and only wryly smiled. His lord had never lost his temper like this before, which showed how angry the latter was.
Seeing how Huang Gongfu couldn't help him, Miaomiao sighed and peered at Sun Wentai, ”You see, I don't want to fight you since I'm here for a peace talk, not delivering a message. If you keep this up, I don't think forming an alliance with you will do us any good. Now, if you excuse me. I shall return and tell Sun Yun that this sect is beyond help, and Sun Wentai isn't someone we should befriend with. Goodbye.”
Miaomiao kicked the ground and flew off the floating mountain.
Gan Ning widened his eyes in shock as he had never seen a 4th-stage cultivator fly before. He shouted.
”Boss! Are you leaving me here!?”
Miaomiao froze in mid-air. He turned around and landed next to Gan Ning and carried him over his shoulder.
As Miaomiao was about to leave again, two elders ascended the stairs by flight and landed at the front yard.
The elder was Cheng Pu, who had talked with Zhou Gongjin earlier. As for the other one, he was the younger brother of Sun Wentai, Sun Jing.
Sun Jing's face had the same outline as Sun Wentai. However, he was thinner and smaller. His cultivation base was meagerly 5th-stage, which couldn't be compared to the sect master. Even though part of Sun Wentai's hair was white, Sun Jing's skin and expression looked worn-out, which seemed older than his brother.
Upon arrival, Sun Jing looked around in excitement. Then, he gazed at both Gan Ning and Miaomiao.
”Which one of you is Cao Mao?”
Miaomiao raised his eyebrows and put Gan Ning down. He cupped his fist and bowed to the man.
”That would be me. You must be Sun Yun's father, am I right?”
”Ah! Aha…Ahahaha! Yes. Yes! I'm Sun Yun's father!” In joy, Sun Jing ran toward Miaomiao and patted his shoulders. The elder inspected him from head to toes.
Miaomiao glanced at Sun Wentai for a moment as he had an inspiration. He knelt down and kowtowed to Sun Jing.
”Cao Mao greets father-in-law. I'm Sun Yun's husband.”
”Good! Very good! Hahahaha! Sun Yun praised you a lot on the phone. I always wanted to meet you!” Sun Jing kept laughing as he raised Miaomiao up. Without caring about his younger brother or others, he hugged Miaomiao. ”Thank you! THANK YOU! THANK YOU FOR SAVING MY DAUGHTER!!”
”Err, you're welcome.”
”Hahahaha! Not only my daughter is still alive, I now have a son! Come! Come with me. I'll bring you to see your mother-in-law! We have a lot to talk about! No… We need a celebration! Let's have a banquet!”
Sun Jing grabbed Miaomiao's hand and dragged him down the mountain amidst the puzzled look on everybody's faces.
Gan Ning snapped back to his senses first. He followed Miaomiao and Sun Jing as he believed in his prodigal boss.
Unfortunately, they couldn't leave.
Sun Wentai expanded his domain power and used his killing intent to suppress Sun Jing.
”STOP RIGHT THERE!! SUN JING, WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING HERE!?”
Sun Jing struggled to stand on his feet. He coughed as if he was short of breath, but he yelled back at his brother while having teary eyes.