Seeing no response from Li Shen, the man yelled angrily once again.
“I’m serious kid, spit it out! You have no idea what the consequences are for taking that Dragon Qi, only members of my Dragon Clan are allowed to possess it!!”
“…”
Li Shen continued to remain silent meanwhile the man looked more and more anxious by the second.
Suddenly, he began pleading.
“Hey, little brother, maybe we have got off on the wrong foot.”
Hearing his change of tone of voice, Li Shen's expression became strange.
“Little brother, how about this. You cough up the Dragon Qi you absorb and I’ll give you some spirit stones. How about ten million high-grade spirit stones?”
The man held up ten fingers, and Li Shen almost choke on his saliva when he heard that amount.
‘Who is this person, ten million high-grade spirit stones isn’t a small amount. I could probably support the entire Celestial Academy's Inner Academy cultivation resources for a day with it.’
Though putting the scale like that didn’t sound impressive, one should know that it includes thousands upon thousands of disciples that use the Celestial Academy's resources.
However, he didn’t respond to the man despite the large sum of money, instead, Li Shen’s head raced to devise ways of escaping.
For some reason, despite Li Shen sensing an inexplicable force radiating from this translucent man that could obliterate him if released, the man seemed to not want to harm him.
Seeing Li Shen’s silence, the man visibly began to panic more, so much so that he started to increase his offer.
“Fine! a hundred million high-grade spirit stones! That’s nearly half of my life’s savings, you little brat you still won’t accept that amount?!”
While Li Shen was hearing the number increasing to such absurd amounts, how could he not be moved?
His heart shudder and he even started to wish that he could have coughed up the Dragon Qi as well.
“I’ll even add the fact that I’ll swear a blood oath to not harm you or anyone related to you. Just give back the Dragon Qi you took.”
The man was on the verge of tears at this point.
'If father found out that I had been careless to leave my Dragon Qi for someone to absorb it, my head would roll. Especially after numerous warnings to be careful with it.'
In the tavern, the man's back started to soak with sweat.
Meanwhile, Li Shen was beginning to think that maybe trying to absorb this Qi wasn’t such a good idea. The man looked really desperate to get it back, and given his mysterious identity, it led him to believe he might not be from the Maple Continent.
Li Shen wasn’t being arrogant, but the man not recognizing him as the Faceless Hero after seeing his mask was a dead giveaway he wasn’t from here.
Add the fact that he could cough out a hundred million high-grade spirit stones, he was either an old monster thousands of years old to accumulate that amount or a scion young master from a powerful background.
Given his cultivation and behavior up till now, Li Shen would believe it was the latter.
Li Shen thought about how he should go about solving this dilemma. The man was using the remaining Dragon Qi in the surroundings to make sure he didn’t run away.
Soon, he looked at the man and began waving his hand.
“What is that? What are you doing, can’t you talk?”
Seeing Li Shen trying to communicate using gestures the man came to that conclusion.
Racking his brain, he followed Li Shen's gestures and deduced what he was trying to say.
“Are you saying you can’t release the Dragon Qi you absorbed? Bullshit!!”
The man yelled angrily and jabbing a golden translucent finger at Li Shen he continue.
“It’s impossible that you could have absorbed that amount of Dragon Qi in your dantian already. Just cough up the remaining amount and I’ll give you the hundred million high-grade spirit stones and swear a blood oath to not harm you!”
Li Shen’s face behind the mask broke out into a closed wearily smile.
‘If I could have I would have released it. You getting this thing to cough up what it swallowed was like trying to convince a rock to dance, it’s simply impossible.’
Li Shen tried to communicate that he really can’t give it back, but the man just got more irritated. Suddenly, his eyes flashed with killing intent.
“Fine, since you don’t want to cough it up, you can die for your greed. Although your identity might appear on the Ancestral Temple as a Dragon Clan member that was killed, I can just say I had a child while I was out that died during labor. Father might believe me.”
Despite the man’s threatening words, that last bit he mumbled sounded like a little child, that was sure covering the stain on the bed with a blanket would work.
Li Shen had no idea what he was talking about, but he had no time to think about his words.
The man soon raised his hand towards Li Shen, that inexplicable power inside of his figure began stirring to life.
Feeling death approaching, Li Shen instinctively blurted out.
“Wait!”
However, his Time Seed, which was literally waiting for an opening, immediately struck.
From Li Shen’s mouth, a terrifying suction force emanated that went through the sides of the mask.
“Eh?”
The man could only say as his figure was instantly sucked into Li Shen’s mouth in the blink of an eye. Along with the inexplicable power inside of him all the same.
In the tavern, the man's partly visible face was filled with dumbfoundedness.
He tried to create an avatar to appear there once more, but he sensed that unlike what was preventing him before, which was his avatar not getting a chance to form before being absorbed. This time it was because there was no more Dragon Qi to form his avatar from.
His heart shudder at this and without hesitation, he grabbed the oblivious young boy under his arm and appeared above the city they were in.
The young boy was first shocked, but he soon cried out.
“How many times did I say I don’t like being held like this?!”
“Sorry, sorry, I’m in hurry. I’ll give you your favorite milk from that flood dragon as an apology, okay?”
The young boy hearing that quickly calmed down, and looking at the milk in his hand, he simply tossed it away. Apprehension now filled his heart due to the man's words.
Soon, his and the man’s figure had the void warp and distort around them before they disappeared.
This was the use of a powerful ancient Spital Daoist Magic, something that didn’t exist on the Maple Continent.
Back at the mountain, Li Shen stood there after helplessly watching the remaining Dragon Qi being absorbed into his mouth.
BURP!
A loud burp escaped his lips before a single sweat appeared on the side of his forehead.
Not only had he not gotten any of the Dragon Qi, he had likely accidentally offended someone from a mysterious background.
Whether this was a lucky roll or a disastrous one, he had no idea.
Sighing internally, Li Shen looked around before he prepared to leave, that man was most likely on his way here now.
Li Shen began to float up into the air, but his gaze suddenly landed on the entrance of the mountain.
‘Wait, could there be more Dragon Qi inside?’
Maybe he could grab a small amount before he left. He was at least confident in taking a finger size strand without alerting that person.
After a bit of thought, he deduced this was a good idea.
Landing back on the ground, Li Shen’s figure blurred as he moved and entered the mountain.
He’ll just grab a finger size strand of Dragon Qi and immediately leave. If he just did it quickly and left, what could possibly go wrong?
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