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"Xuchen Mountain shares fate with Luo Chen? What a joke!"
In the Wei family estate, the words slipped from Wei Bufan’s mouth before he could stop them. But his anger subsided quickly, giving way to sobering clarity. The meaning behind Luo Chen’s words couldn’t have been more obvious. If they refused his terms, it wouldn’t just be a casual visit to Xuchen Mountain; the entire fortune of their faction might end up sharing fate with his pockets.
When Luo Chen had crushed other factions, at least he’d left the land behind. But if he set his sights on Xuchen Mountain, extermination would not be the worst outcome. There was something far crueler than extermination. And that was conquest, enslaving the cultivators of the Wei family to serve his cause. It wasn’t unheard of, and as long as the justification sounded proper, one didn’t even need to fear being labeled a devil cultivator.
Now, thanks to Wei Tuo’s failed ambush, Luo Chen had that excuse. Every justification he needed was in his hands.
Wei Bufan forced himself to calm down and reconsider the three demands.
The first, no revenge, was expected. Wei Bufan didn’t even mind. He and Wei Tuo had never been close anyway. If they had been, Wei Tuo wouldn’t have excluded him when scheming over the Li family’s assets. The second demand, however, was troublesome. What if he were ordered to fight someone in the middle or late stage of the Foundation Establishment Realm? That would be no different from suicide.
The third condition, by contrast, was surprisingly easy to accept.
"Second Elder, where do we usually buy pills for the juniors’ cultivation?" Wei Bufan asked...
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