Heavenly Dao Engine
Chapter 461 - 461 0325 Also What You Can Ask About_2

Chapter 461: Chapter 0325: Also What You Can Ask About_2 Chapter 461: Chapter 0325: Also What You Can Ask About_2 Qi Tian snorted coldly and said, “Am I someone who lacks a million low-grade spirit stones?”

“What about two million?” Liu Sichao continued to up the ante.

Qi Tian said, “You might as well die.”

Liu Sichao added, “Since you’re not interested in spirit stones, what about people? If you don’t kill me, I can submit to you, become your follower, obey your every command. Or, I could even persuade my family to submit to you, become your vassal clan, how does that sound?”

Liu Sichao’s offer was quite compelling. Liu Sichao himself was a Half-step Golden Core figure, just one step away from becoming a Golden Core powerhouse. How many people in the world could command a Golden Core powerhouse as their follower? Furthermore, Liu Sichao was willing to persuade his family to capitulate, making it an offer that wasn’t easy to turn down.

For a moment, Qi Tian almost accepted. Liu Sichao’s offer was really tempting, but Qi Tian snapped out of it in the blink of an eye. Although Liu Sichao’s offer seemed nice, it was laden with lethal traps. Liu Sichao was not Wang Na. The latter didn’t have much standing in Wanjie City, no significant figure was keeping an eye on her. However, Liu Sichao was different, he was the direct-line disciple of the Liu family, the future heir; his every action was under strict scrutiny. Once something abnormal occurred with Liu Sichao, it would be easily detected. When that time came, if the Liu family gathered its forces to investigate Liu Sichao’s anomaly, they might not harm Liu Sichao, but they wouldn’t be gentle to him either.

Moreover, in Wanjie City, there existed Nascent Soul Masters. The means a Nascent Soul Master possessed were beyond the comprehension of Qi Tian at this stage. Perhaps they could dissolve the master-servant contract. If that were the case, using the master-servant contract to threaten Liu Sichao and thereby the Liu family would be impossible.

“Alright then, let’s enter into a master-servant contract.” As Qi Tian said these words, he simultaneously intensified the power of the Heavenly Dao Engine, accelerating its speed. His speed rocketed instantly.

“Qi Tian, rest assured, once we sign the master-servant contract, I will be absolutely loyal to you for my life. I will never betray you.” Liu Sichao, thinking he had persuaded Qi Tian, slowed down a bit. He had been prepared for a situation like this since the start of his journey. Among the various treasures his family bestowed upon him, included a special kind of puppet that could substitute him in signing the contract. The puppet would seem to sign it, but it would actually sign in his place. Once the puppet was activated, what would happen was no longer a concern. He would surely be safe. He planned to regather the forces of the Liu family after leaving the secret realm and make Qi Tian pay.

While Liu Sichao was plotting against Qi Tian, he didn’t anticipate that in the next moment, Qi Tian would strike violently. His furious punch targeted the unexpected Liu Sichao.

Qi Tian’s furious strike, a surge of power surged through his fist and harshly hit Liu Sichao.

Armor on Liu Sichao flared up. The protective runes only lasted for a short time before they shattered. The residual force still hit Liu Sichao’s physical body, snapping his spine.

Liu Sichao’s body went limp and he tumbled heavily to the ground. “Qi Tian, you broke your promise,” Liu Sichao spat out blood. His eyes filled with resentment stared at Qi Tian as he uttered his bloodied accusation.

Qi Tian snorted coldly, landing a punch on Liu Sichao’s neck. With a single crack, Liu Sichao’s neck broke and he died on the spot.

With a wave of his hand, Qi Tian grabbed Liu Sichao’s corpse and first took off the Storage Bag from Liu Sichao’s body. This was uniformly distributed by Wanjie Commerce. It was identical to the one hanging around Qi Tian’s waist. Having briefly checked it, Qi Tian found there wasn’t much spirit stone in it, just tens of thousands of them at most. The majority of them were low-grade spirit stones, with only a few middle-grade spirit stones, not to mention the top-grade ones. Qi Tian then used the scanning feature of the Heavenly Dao Engine to examine Liu Sichao but didn’t find any hidden storage equipment. Shaking his head, he placed Liu Sichao’s corpse into the material chamber of the Heavenly Dao Engine. Afterwards, he turned back, collected the bodies of the other ambushing cultivators as well.

Upon examining the other cultivators, Qi Tian made the same observation; they didn’t have much spirit stones on them. Clearly, these people, including Liu Sichao, hadn’t been able to dig up much spirit stones since entering this spiritual stone vein. Simultaneously, it could be inferred that there were no rich spiritual stone veins nearby, otherwise, given their number, they should have found more of the stones.

It seemed that finding a suitable spiritual stone vein to mine here was out of the question. He’d have to continue going back.

Having determined the direction, Qi Tian continued on his journey. This time, everything went smoothly on his way back, and he didn’t encounter any trouble.

Upon returning to the large mine, Qi Tian noted that apart from some Wanjie Commerce’s cultivators on patrol, there were no other people in sight. Nobody paid special attention to Qi Tian, who had emerged from a mine tunnel. The patrolling cultivators merely glanced at him from a distance, and after confirming he wasn’t a native cultivator, they ignored him.

Qi Tian flew over to a patrolling cultivator and asked, “Sir, could you tell me where Elder Wan might be?”

The patrolling cultivator, who didn’t recognize Qi Tian, was cautious. Even though Qi Tian had greatly contributed to the capture of the spirit stone mine, the number of cultivators who arrived was so large that even among Wanjie Commerce’s own cultivators, numbering in thousands, not everyone recognized Qi Tian. Some even didn’t know about his contribution and thought it was Wan Xiaolan’s merit in breaching the protective shield.

The patrolling cultivator looked at Qi Tian warily and asked, “What do you want to do? You think you can enquire about Elder Wan’s whereabouts? If you don’t want to get into trouble, leave now and go dig your mine.”

“I…”Qi Tian wanted to explain.

“What ‘I’ now? Do you believe if you keep pestering, I’ll kill you?” The cultivator, who was at the eighth level of Foundation Establishment, felt no pressure against Qi Tian, who was at the seventh level.

With a wry smile, Qi Tian realized there was no point in continuing this standoff. He couldn’t kill or even beat the cultivator because he still didn’t have the strength or confidence to confront Wanjie Commerce. He could only turn around and leave. Looking at the other patrolling cultivators of Wanjie Commerce, he couldn’t recognize any familiar faces, so he gave up the idea of enquiring about Wan Xiaolan’s whereabouts. He started observing the numerous mine tunnels on the mine well’s walls again, hoping to find a rich vein.

Suddenly, Qi Tian had a brainwave. He remembered that when he had obliterated the native cultivators’ camp near the secret tunnel’s exit, he found a map in one of the houses. At that time, he found it familiar but couldn’t remember what it represented, so he just kept it. Now he realized that the map looked exactly like the mine well he was currently observing.

Qi Tian took another look at the patrolling cultivators, turned around and flew back to the mine tunnel he had just left. Having just emerged from there, he knew that the number of cultivators in that tunnel was scarce. Except for himself, who had reached the secret tunnel’s exit, only Liu Sichao and his team had gone the furthest. As for the other cultivators, none of them had even managed to go five miles deep.