Chapter 586 - 405: Teaching a Lesson to the Blind

Events unfolded just as Meng Fen had predicted. Fang Qingyuan had no intention of dealing him a fatal blow, nor did he even try to seal his Magical Power.

Fang Qingyuan stated plainly:

"One must accept defeat. Since you have lost to me, your life is now mine. However, I’m not interested in your life. You can offer a price to ransom yourself."

Meng Fen said bitterly:

"So this was your real goal. I came to you for business, but you were planning a no-cost venture all along. Fang Qingyuan, you are truly black-hearted."

Fang Qingyuan smiled faintly. For him, with his Immortal Mansion allowing him to recover his energy, the recent fight had hardly been intense. Just as Meng Fen said, he was indeed going to force a transaction this time.

"That’s right. You can use Light Spirit Water to bait me, so I can use your life as a bargaining chip. Meng Fen, don’t think I wouldn’t dare to kill you. You should know, I am one of the White Mountain People."

The White Mountain People were known for being murderous, reckless, and impulsive. In the eyes of the Qi Yun People, they weren’t much better than uncivilized savages. Although Meng Fen was worldly and knowledgeable, Fang Qingyuan deliberately mentioned his background as one of the White Mountain People to intimidate him.

Meng Fen truly didn’t dare to talk tough and bet on whether Fang Qingyuan would have a moment of madness. He said with a wry smile:

"As long as you let me go, everything in my storage bag is yours."

"Foolish. If I kill you, all of this will be mine anyway. I told you to name a price for yourself, and this is how you try to fool me?"

Fang Qingyuan’s angry roar made Meng Fen shudder. So what if he was a Golden Core Cultivator? In this situation, he could only swallow his anger and accept his fate.

"It’s the Light Spirit Water! I know the recipe for Light Spirit Water, and also the Cultivation Method for the Spirit Ascension Dharma Eye! I’ll tell you everything."

Meng Fen quickly spoke up, adding to his offer. Fang Qingyuan looked at Meng Fen and shook his head repeatedly. "Not enough. Far from enough. Is the life of a Golden Core Cultivator only worth a single Spirit Ascension Dharma Eye?"

"Then what else do you want? Do you want me to sell out Qimeng Mountain? That’s impossible."

Fang Qingyuan stared at Meng Fen with a malicious glint in his eye. "A Late-stage Golden Core cultivator... your life must be worth a hefty sum. You’ve been in this line of business for so many years, you must have tens of thousands of Top-grade Spirit Stones, right? Paying to save your own life—it’s perfectly reasonable, isn’t it? Of course, to avoid you trying to take me down with you, I certainly won’t be too excessive. Fellow Daoist Meng, time is of the essence. Let’s start the accounting."

...

A long time later, Meng Fen flew away from the area, stumbling as he went. Fang Qingyuan clutched a storage bag to his chest and toyed with an ancient mirror in his hand. Watching Meng Fen’s departing figure, his mood improved considerably.

The seven hundred and ten Top-grade Spirit Stones he had just spent had returned to his hands within a single day, and with a surplus.

Fate was just that wonderful and mysterious.

As for how Meng Fen, who had just been thoroughly fleeced, might retaliate later, Fang Qingyuan wasn’t worried. ’Once Bear Wind emerges from the Barbaric Wilderness, who in White Mountain will still be my match?’

Even if the old ancestor of Qimeng Mountain personally came to seek justice for Meng Fen, it would still depend on whether Bear Wind allowed it.

’After all, I paid such a high price and went to great lengths to have Bear Wind move into the Qingyuan Sect precisely to have a backer. If I don’t use my backer, what’s the point?’

Fang Qingyuan glanced at Qiqi. The Yellow Turban Divine General Talisman had reverted to its original form as a Spirit Talisman, which Qiqi collected as her spoil of war.

Fang Qingyuan’s haul, however, was even greater. He now held the Cultivation Method for the Spirit Ascension Dharma Eye, the recipe for Light Spirit Water, several shops within the Black River Marketplace, an IOU for three thousand Top-grade Spirit Stones, Meng Fen’s storage bag, and his Lifebound Magical Mirror.

With no time to carefully calculate the value of his gains, and seeing that the attempt to fish for the Hao Shi had failed, Fang Qingyuan didn’t linger. He still had to find Ji Jiaqing to take care of business, so he called out to Qiqi.

"Let’s go. Time to get to our real business. Fifty thousand Top-grade Spirit Stones... so fucking expensive!"