Yang Kai took the ring and scanned it with his Divine Sense, immediately becoming dumbfounded! Inside the ring, there was a pile of Open Heaven Pills, each of them shining with a lustrous luster that nearly blinded his eyes.
There was no correct number, but from a general perspective, the number of ten million was correct.
Ten million, that was a total of ten million Open Heaven Pills! He had actually obtained it so easily…
For anyone who had just entered the Outer Universe world, this was a massive amount of wealth. If they had a way to obtain it, they could even purchase a set of sixth-grade materials. Old Fang and Die You would never have imagined that one day they would be able to obtain a ring containing ten million Open Heaven Pills.
In his heart, he was overjoyed, but on the surface, he remained calm, secretly thinking that this First Inn was really not bad. Now that things had come to this, it actually gave him such a generous compensation, causing him to feel a little guilty. After all, he had absorbed a lot of the Golden Crow True Fire, so he didn’t know if the remaining Golden Crow True Fire in the Golden Crow’s corpse was enough for another person to condense the Fire Element. If it wasn’t enough, it would be a waste of the other person’s lifetime of cultivation.
However, it wasn’t good to remind others about this, so he could only keep it to himself.
But before she could finish her thought, he heard the Proprietress coldly say, “The reward has been given to you, now let’s talk about this Queen’s losses!”
Yang Kai raised his head in surprise, “Loss? What loss?” He instinctively felt that something was wrong, even the Space Ring in his hand was somewhat hot.
The Proprietress sneered lightly, “My First Inn’s business focuses on credibility and has always been fair to everyone. If you give us any benefits, our First Inn will pay you back, but if you bring any losses to our First Inn, we will naturally want you to compensate. It’s very fair.” She waved her hand and said, “Settle your debts!”
The Accountant walked out from the crowd, a small golden abacus in his hand crackling.
A moment later, under Yang Kai’s stunned gaze, the Accountant finished his work and presented the abacus in front of the Proprietress. Looking at Yang Kai with a look of pity, he said, “Counting the house’s money, twenty million and forty-six thousand pills!”
The Proprietress nodded lightly, her slender jade fingers tapping on the abacus a few times before lightly saying, “Erase the small change, twenty million will do.”
“Yes!” The Accountant replied.
The Proprietress stretched out her hand again, and before Yang Kai could react, the Space Ring containing ten million Open Heaven Pills was snatched back. The Proprietress held the Space Ring and gestured towards Yang Kai, “This is ten million, you still owe me ten million Open Heaven Pills!”
Yang Kai was stunned…
A moment ago, he had suddenly become rich overnight, holding ten million Open Heaven Pills in his hand, but in the next instant, he had inexplicably become someone who owed others ten million!
Immediately after, he became furious and glared at the Proprietress, “Is it fun to play with people?”
The Proprietress looked at him with her phoenix eyes and said lightly, “Do you think this Queen is playing with you? This Queen doesn’t have the time to do such boring things.”
“Then what do you mean?” Yang Kai’s chest was filled with anger, like a volcano ready to erupt at any moment. He secretly swore in his heart that if this woman didn’t say anything, he would immediately take out his Azure Dragon Spear and stab a few holes into her beautiful face. As for whether he could beat her, he would hit her first, since he still had a Golden Plume Feather in his hand.
“What i mean?” The Proprietress smiled angrily and pointed to the side, “Take a look yourself!”
Yang Kai turned his head and stared at it for a long time, his eyes becoming sore as he turned his head and asked, “What do you want me to look at?” There was nothing there, what was there to see!?
The Proprietress grit her teeth and said, “The First Inn is destroyed!”
“Destroyed my ass…” Yang Kai’s words were cut off mid-sentence as he frowned, vaguely understanding what was going on, “The First Inn wasn’t destroyed by me, why are you looking for me?”
The Proprietress said, “If it weren’t for you, how could the First Inn have been destroyed? This Queen had been in charge of this First Inn for more than a thousand and three hundred years and had never made a mistake, but today, because of a little brat like you, even the inn has been destroyed. If I don’t look for you, who will I look for!”
Yang Kai replied, “Of course, you can find whoever destroyed it…”
“Don’t worry, none of those who attacked us will be able to escape. However, you are the main cause of this incident, so this Queen will charge you with twenty million as compensation. Is that too much?”
“You bitch…” Yang Kai was furious, “Are you trying to be unreasonable?”
A figure flashed past and a fragrant wind blew towards him. A slender jade finger pointed towards his chest, a dangerous aura exuding from it. Madam Lan narrowed her eyes and said, “Repeat what you just said!”
Yang Kai lowered his head to look at his chest, his Adam’s apple bobbing as he reorganized his words, “Proprietress, can you be reasonable? I deeply sympathize with your First Inn destruction, but I didn’t do anything to you. Isn’t it a bit unreasonable for you to settle accounts with me like this?”
“Unreasonable?” The Proprietress laughed angrily, “If you had accepted this Queen’s conditions in the first place, why would there be so much trouble in the future? Do you dare say that this matter has nothing to do with you?”
“Whether I accept it or not is up to me. If you open your doors to do business, you can’t force me to trade, right?”
The Proprietress said, “Who forced a trade with you? Whether you accept it or not is your freedom, but do you dare say that the destruction of the First Inn has nothing to do with you?”
“I don’t think it has anything to do with me,” Yang Kai said stubbornly.
The Proprietress stared at him for a moment before suddenly smiling and retracting her hand, flicking her sleeve and saying, “It doesn’t matter if you don’t want to admit it. In any case, no one dares to renege on the debt to my First Inn.”
Yang Kai clenched his fists and glared fiercely at the Proprietress.
The Proprietress smiled at him, her eyes filled with contempt. Behind the Proprietress, Bai Qi kept winking at him, signaling him to calm down.
After taking a few deep breaths, Yang Kai suppressed the urge to use the Golden Plume Feather to run amok and shouted, “I don’t have any money!”
Ten million Open Heaven Pills was simply an unimaginable number, so how could Yang Kai afford it?
The Proprietress said, “I didn’t expect you to be able to pay me back now.”
“En?” Yang Kai turned his head in surprise, “Then… let’s make an IOU?” If he could just make an IOU, it wouldn’t be a bad idea. In any case, this was a big world, so as long as he was careful in the future, he might not be able to meet the Proprietress again. Of course, if the Proprietress mobilized her connections to search for someone, unless Yang Kai didn’t show himself in front of others, it wouldn’t be easy to avoid her.
“Why do I need you to write an IOU?” The Proprietress snorted disdainfully and glanced at him from head to toe before lightly saying, “Pay with your body.”
Yang Kai almost coughed up blood, thinking he had misheard, “What?”
However, the Proprietress couldn’t be bothered with him anymore and called out, “Bring him and prepare to set off.”
Bai Qi and the Accountant received their orders and stepped forward to grab Yang Kai…
Yang Kai was stunned, “What are you doing!”
The Accountant’s face was expressionless, but Bai Qi kept blinking at him, not knowing what to say.
Madam Lan raised her hand and summoned a small boat-like artifact. The small boat rapidly expanded, transforming into a giant 10 zhang long ship that was divided into three floors. In a flash, she flew to the highest room of the ship and disappeared.
The others from the First Inn also boarded the ship one after another and entered the cabin to work. Yang Kai was led onto the ship by Bai Qi and the Accountant.
On the surface, this ship didn’t look particularly eye-catching, but Yang Kai could feel that this ship was obviously of a higher grade than the one from Great Moon Province. After all, it was the ship of the First Inn’s Proprietress, so it was not appropriate for such status to be so poor.
With a hum, the ship shook and a thin membrane appeared on its surface, wrapping around the entire ship. In the next moment, Yang Kai’s body shook as he felt the entire ship speed towards a certain direction.
Yang Kai was confused and turned to look at Bai Qi, “Where are we going?”
Bai Qi shook his head, “I don’t know, Proprietress didn’t say.”
“You don’t know?” Turning to look at the Accountant, the Accountant released him without a word and entered the cabin.
Bai Qi stretched his back and saw that Yang Kai was still depressed, so he reached out and patted his shoulder, “Still depressed?”
“Won't you be depressed if you encounter this?”
Bai Qi thought about it seriously for a moment before nodding and saying, “It’s quite depressing, but there’s always a positive and negative side to everything. You should think about it in a positive way.”
Yang Kai grumbled, “I don’t know what benefits this will bring me.”
“Look over there!” Bai Qi pointed.
Yang Kai looked in the direction he was pointing and vaguely saw a large ship floating in the air.
“What do you mean?” Yang Kai was confused.
Bai Qi grinned, “I can’t say for sure which force that ship belongs to, but if you had just gone on your own, they definitely wouldn’t have let you off and would have followed you. You can easily guess the consequences, right?”
Yang Kai frowned, “But the Golden Crow’s corpse has already been taken away by Sir Situ, so it’s useless for them to look for me.”
“Be that as it may, who knows if you’ve obtained any other benefits from the Golden Crow Divine Palace? For example, Sun's True Fire, Sun's True Gold, and so on!”
Yang Kai was stunned for a moment before gritting his teeth and saying, “Too much bullying!” He didn’t have Sun's True Gold, but he had obtained quite a lot of Sun's True Fire, even three fifth-grade ones.
Bai Qi patted him on the shoulder, “Don’t look at how unreasonable the Proprietress is acting, she’s actually protecting you. After all, whether you’re willing or not, you’ve reached a deal with my First Inn. My First Inn can’t abandon you after crossing the river, right? If that’s the case, the world won’t know what to think of my First Inn.”
“According to you, shouldn’t I go thank the Proprietress?”
“It's up to you,” Bai Qi shrugged.
Yang Kai said angrily, “Even so, what does she mean by adding ten million to my debt? If she wants to protect me, just tell me directly.”
“This…” Bai Qi scratched his chin, “I’m not too sure, you need to ask the Proprietress yourself, but speaking of which, the destruction of the First Inn does have something to do with you.”
TO BE CONTINUED...
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