Published: December 25, 2024
“Are you joking? Master Kang, does this Young Master look like he’s joking?” Qin Chen said with a smile. He picked up his teacup and leisurely began to drink, not feeling the slightest bit embarrassed.
Kang Sitong's expression changed rapidly, his heart filled with anger. Did the other party intend to use today’s opportunity to threaten him?
One was an appeal to the Wanbao Tower headquarters, making him face punishment, and the other was to borrow over a hundred million high-quality true stones. As long as he didn’t meet his demands, this brat would tear apart their relationship? If it were something else, it would be fine, but this was over a hundred million high-quality true stones! Once this door was opened, where would he find a way to fill it? Although he, as the master of Wanbao Tower, had ample financial resources, he couldn’t afford such a huge loss. The headquarters of Wanbao Tower would definitely take action against him.
“Cheng Shao, please don’t joke around. I, Kang, cannot bear this. My Wanbao Tower is small and cannot withstand such turmoil. If I really agreed to your demands, my superiors at Wanbao Tower would definitely blame me. I cannot bear that!” Kang Sitong said with a sorrowful face.
Qin Chen laughed, “Master Kang, did you misunderstand something? I’m just borrowing some resources from you, not asking for it without payment. As a Holy Son of the Alchemy Pavilion in the Northern Heaven Domain, I will soon be in charge of the Pill City. In the Northern Heaven Domain, I also have a force that operates various treasures, called Chen Di Pavilion, which specializes in buying and selling various alchemical treasures. Do you think that in such a vast Northern Heaven Domain, I wouldn’t be able to repay you a mere one hundred million high-quality true stones?”
The old man Da Bei twitched at the corner of his mouth. A mere one hundred million? Cheng Shao’s words were too overbearing, who could handle that?
Kang Sitong frowned, bitterly smiling. He couldn’t believe Qin Chen would take over the Northern Heaven Domain's Alchemy Pavilion; even if he was a high-level client with a black card from Wanbao Tower, why would he care about such a small place?
However, he couldn’t ignore Qin Chen’s words, so he endured and said with a wry smile, “Cheng Shao, please don’t joke around. How about this? My ability is limited. If you need money, I can personally sponsor you one million high-quality true stones or items of equivalent value. As for more, I’m truly powerless. I’ll take what you just said as a joke.” After hesitating for a while, he gritted his teeth and decided to take out of his own pocket to send off Qin Chen’s extortion. Right now, he sought nothing but to satiate Qin Chen and ensure his safe departure. Meanwhile, the old man Da Bei was left speechless. Voluntarily offering one million high-quality true stones? Master Kang was too overbearing! Although based on a hundred to one ratio, one million high-quality true stones actually only equated to one hundred million middle-quality true stones, that was just the so-called official exchange. In reality, high-quality true stones were exceedingly rare in the lower four domains. Not to mention a ratio of one to a hundred, even a ratio of one to five hundred, no one was willing to exchange high-quality true stones for middle-quality true stones. It was practically a market with no value.
“I’m not joking at all!” Qin Chen said word by word, a faint smile in his eyes. Kang Sitong’s face darkened slightly, his pupils filled with raging anger. The old man Da Bei also felt dizzy. Cheng Shao had already benefited; he should know when to stop. This kind of extortion was unbearable to watch.
Seeing the atmosphere become tense, Qin Chen smiled and said, “Look at everyone so anxious.” He smiled slightly and continued, “I know it’s hard for you to decide, Master Kang. How about this, let me introduce a business opportunity to you. With this business, you can earn at least several billion middle-quality true stones within half a month. Use these several billion middle-quality true stones as collateral; surely that’s fine?”