Chapter 1239: Terms of the Deal

Chapter 1239: Chapter 1239: Terms of the Deal

With such doubts, Pei Yan smiled and accepted the gift list, opened the fold, and used the body camera to simply browse through the list again. But just halfway through, he snapped the list shut, and his eyes, tightly sealed under his eyelids, slightly twitched, making Xiang Zixiong startled.

"Where are the items on this gift list? Are they in those two big boxes at the door?" Pei Yan directly stood up and pointed at the two large boxes at the door, asking urgently.

"Uh, yes!" Xiang Zixiong didn’t expect such a big reaction from Pei Yan, nodding repeatedly and affirming, "The magical artifacts listed earlier were too numerous to send here, so someone will contact your side for a handover later, and this gift list is something my brother and I are giving Mr. Pei."

"You guys? Hmph!" Hearing this, Pei Yan snorted coldly, opened the fold again, and scrutinized it once more, feeling secretly pleased while disdainfully saying, "Do you know what’s in these boxes?"

"Uh...!" Xiang Zixiong was stumped by the question. When he came, the Commander-in-Chief had instructed to deliver this item, affirming that Pei Yan would agree to his brothers’ matters and later cooperation requests. But regarding what’s sent, the Commander-in-Chief instructed not to open the gift list or boxes to check, violators would be executed summarily.

"Don’t know what kind of gift you’re giving?" Xiang Zixiong’s performance was entirely within Pei Yan’s expectations. Recovering from the shock and joy just now, he waved the gift list casually, and the flame ignited at his fingertips instantly consumed it, then nodded to Hu Jiu beside him. Receiving the cue, Hu Jiu knowingly walked out of the hall, directly storing the two big boxes in the space ring without opening them for inspection.

After doing all this, Pei Yan looked at Xiang Zixiong, who was still thinking of excuses, and sighed, "Your Commander-in-Chief had a hard time of it, finding such items to gift me, shows he is considerate. Please thank him on my behalf when you return."

Saying this, Pei Yan beckoned to Xiang Zizhen sitting at the end, Xiang Zixiong felt relieved seeing Pei Yan say this, then looked at him calling his brother over knowing it was to have things cleared up, immediately urged by Xiang Zizhen’s ear, "Zizhen, hurry over; Mr. Pei is calling you."

Xiang Zizhen, not being foolish, stood up from his seat, hurried three steps to Pei Yan. Pei Yan reached out to press the area around Xiang Zizhen’s eyes, saying it would hurt a bit, endure, then a vigorous source of energy slowly infused from his fingertip into Xiang Zizhen’s body.

Only to see Xiang Zizhen’s almost healed wound at this time once again opened by this source energy, two lines of blood tears flowed down Xiang Zizhen’s cheeks. This process was undoubtedly painful, but for Xiang Zizhen, who had practiced cultivation all along the way, tolerating such pain wasn’t a problem. He only let out a muffled groan initially and then remained silent.

Moments later, Pei Yan withdrew his palm, breathed out a long sigh, took out two tissues from the space ring, while wiping blood stains off his hands said, "Alright, don’t open your eyes hastily, some meridians still need to merge with your body internally, rest for two days and you will recover as before."

Xiang Zixiong watched as his brother’s sockets refilled with substance, knowing someone like Pei Yan, once deciding to take action, wouldn’t deceive him. Overjoyed, he took hold of his brother and several others and thanked Pei Yan in unison.

"Don’t thank me; I’m just doing my part for the reward! The gift from your Commander-in-Chief far exceeds the worth of pardoning your brother; I, Pei Yan, am not shamelessly pretending ignorance. Speak! What else does your Commander-in-Chief want me to do? Don’t talk to me about fake sentiments of cooperation anymore; if you do, I’ll take them as real, and the gift will be given for free." Pei Yan leaned back to his chair, picked up a piece of Crystal Hibiscus Cake from the table, put it in his mouth and chewed disdainfully as he spoke.

Xiang Zixiong, hearing Pei Yan speak so, felt the time was ripe, wanting to speak but cast a troubled look around.

"Stop looking around, those who can enter this hall are my investigation office confidants, either my friends or relatives, with them there’s nothing to hide." Reading Xiang Zixiong’s mind, Pei Yan picked a second piece of cake and directly exposed it.

There’s nothing to hide for Pei Yan here, but Xiang Zixiong doesn’t want his brother getting involved in this matter. After exchanging eye signals with his second brother, Lu Heguang understood and helped just-healed Xiang Zizhen, they both left the hall and went to wait outside in the courtyard after bidding Pei Yan farewell.

Seeing the two leave, Pei Yan casually set up three sound insulation arrays, then unhurriedly said, "Now can you speak?"

"Mr. Pei, since you asked, I won’t hide it any longer. Our Commander-in-Chief indeed has something he’d like to ask you to do."

"Speak!"

"Speed up the investigation team’s current investigation pace; if the two sects in the Six Mansions of the Immortal Palace can be convicted, that would be best."

"That’s more like it!" Pei Yan smiled faintly upon hearing this, eating several more pieces of cakes, feeling somewhat cloying, he picked up the tea bowl from the table, took a sip and smiled, "Why this impatience to rise? A battle is imminent; making such small moves isn’t good internally!"

"Mr. Pei, our current situation is quite tough; though we are Spirit Lord’s confidants, seemingly grandiose on the surface, yet the main control of the Immortal Palace is still in the hands of the other five mansions. To stabilize the situation, the Spirit Lord doesn’t dare to easily touch these major sects without evidence. So our deployment, supply, operations are all subject to Immortal Palace’s control. The Embroidered Robe Envoys wanting to occupy a certain position in the Immortal Palace, need to topple one or two sects within the Six Mansions to achieve equal footing. Such balance benefits Spirit Lord, us at the Daoist Plane, and even Mr. Pei, doesn’t it?" Xiang Zixiong relayed what the Commander-in-Chief privately instructed him to say to Pei Yan.

"There’s nothing wrong with what you say, but we had a prior agreement with your Spirit Lord! We’re just helping you catch the spies of Blood Fiend, without solid evidence, you want me to falsely accuse a sect’s innocence. I’m truly unable to do this; it might unjustly kill a thousand lives in a sect because of one word from me, such heartless act I won’t do." Pei Yan put down his teacup and outright refused.

"Mr. Pei, no need to besmirch their innocence; I think your side must have gathered quite a few secret lore during this investigation, right? These secrets our Embroidered Robe Envoys couldn’t previously access or have the rights to check. Now that Mr. Pei has acquired them, we are willing to trade valuable items for useful information your side found. This gift is only the beginning; as long as the information fits, we are willing to exchange for equivalent items." Ni Hong, whose calf was injured by Pei Yan yesterday, stood up and saluted Pei Yan, suggesting.

"Uh... this!" Pei Yan scratched his head, falling into hesitation.