Chapter 612: Negotiation (1/2)

[V6C142 – Sorrow of a Silent Parting]

Lu Sha’s legs were nailed firmly to the floor until Qianye’s figure gradually disappeared. His face spasmed a couple of times, but he didn’t issue a challenge until the very end.

As a mercenary and a bounty hunter, Du Li’s equipment represented over half of his entire fortune. He wouldn’t be able to recover from this loss for several years if Qianye were to take them all away. Moreover, his combat strength would also weaken. But Lu Sha, at this point, understood that he would suffer even greater losses if he accepted the duel.

Qianye paused slightly as he walked down from the ring. The spectators were still dispersing at the moment—the gazes upon him, both friendly and hostile, were filled with cautiousness.

He gazed around at his surroundings but couldn’t find Li Weishi’s figure at all. As such, Qianye decided not to wait anymore and simply headed on toward his living quarters. His clean victory here seemed to have messed up the mastermind’s calculations. Now that Li Weishi’s original pretext had become void, who would be the next one to step in?

On his way back, Qianye threw his dispute with the Li family to the back of his head. His current thoughts were occupied by the new ability he had succeeded in activating just now. This was the very first time he had been able to use Spatial Flash with his own power.

After seeing Eden’s Demonic Traversal, Qianye kept thinking about that powerful ability which had brought him away from Adruil’s inheritance realm.

Today, an inheritance rune containing knowledge about spatial powers had suddenly appeared in the River of Blood. This allowed him to activate the power of Spatial Flash. His trajectory at the moment was still visible and the range wasn’t very long, but after growing stronger, he would one day be able to move through space at will.

Qianye couldn’t help but chuckle after recalling the battle with Du Li. Had his combat arts reached such a level? It would seem the battle with Eden wasn’t completely without rewards—this kind of benefit was much more useful than contribution points.

In the end, Qianye only had one thought—between him and Zhao Jundu, who would win in a contest of combat techniques?

At this time, two Li family warriors were barring Qianye’s path forward. They said respectfully, “General Qianye, Elder Li Tianquan wishes for you to see him.”

Qianye was somewhat surprised after hearing this name. He knew Li Tianquan was the Li family’s highest-ranking supervisor in this base. Now that such a character had appeared directly, he would likely obtain some answers regarding his suspicions.

Li Tianquan’s office door was fairly stylish with dark golden motifs set against the light red family colors—truly an exquisite piece of work. Such a product could only have been produced in the empire. It would seem that these doors had been shipped over from the mainland.

If even the door was so, what else need be said about the interior? Qianye had been to the offices of Duke Chengen and Duke You back at the Zhao clan, but even so, he couldn’t help but feel astonished at the extravagance here.

One could see that most of the decorations here were old antiques. Moreover, they weren’t just old—they also possessed historical significance. But this wasn’t too odd though because the Li family had risen to power with medicines and divination arts. Any one of them, if well managed, would bring in vast amounts of wealth.

The beautiful clerk who brought Qianye into the room reported in a pleasant voice, “Second Elder, General Qianye has arrived.”

Li Tianquan was behind his desk at the moment, reading through a thick stack of documents. He didn’t look up after hearing the announcement and merely pointed a finger at the seat in front of him. “Sit.”

Li Tianquan kept on reading after Qianye had taken his seat—it was as thoughthe documents were so important that they needed to be completed the very next minute. However, picking this time to work on urgent tasks was clearly a show of power.

Qianye remained calmly seated, and even his eyes did not wander. In truth, he was continuing the line of thought that was previously disrupted by the Li clan soldiers and thinking about Zhao Jundu’s techniques.

Roughly a quarter hour later, Li Tianquan looked up and glanced at Qianye. What he saw, to his surprise, was the latter sitting there with his thoughts on a mental journey somewhere else.

He snorted coldly and said, “General Qianye, you’re making things very difficult for me.”

Qianye returned his attention to Li Tianquan only at this moment. “Oh? About the fight today, I was the one who was provoked first, there were many people at the scene who saw this. Moreover, I refrained from taking his life for the sake of the Li family. Where did I make things difficult for you? Could it be that even the Li family has to back down against the person behind Du Li and Lu Sha?”

Li Tianquan could barely control his expression. He had never imagined Qianye’s temperament would be so different from the reports—this silent young man who usually kept to himself was actually so sharp with his words.

But how could Li Tianquan be led astray by this topic? He slapped a stack of documents in front of Qianye and said, “General Qianye, please don’t divert the topic. Take a look at this first.”

Qianye flipped through the records and saw that they were all complaints, mainly about the mismatch between his terms and strength. Those complaints, genuine or otherwise, claimed that a brigadier general enjoying such terms was fishy regardless of the reason.

Qianye only read a few lines before pushing the documents back with due calmness. “This contract was signed between me and the Li family. Does it have anything to do with outsiders?”