Chapter 139: Catching A Big Fish With Words Alone
Han Xuhan’s explanation left Mu Ran speechless. Because, it was Mu Ran who had insisted on entering the Holy Land of Laws despite Han Xuhan’s firm refusal. He had even asked Xuhan to keep that part of their deal a secret from the sect’s authorities.
"Sigh... I’ve made a loss of at least five hundred spirit stones this time. What a disaster! I got the shortest end of the stick. I could’ve brought a whole volume of a new, proper cultivation technique and still have some left with that amount of money..." Han Xuhan groaned.
Xuanyuan Zhou, who seemed to have caught onto what he was trying to do, hid a sneer and tried to mess up his scheme.
"But Attendant Xuhan, is your life not worth much more to you? Five hundred spirit stones were enough to ensure your safety inside such a perilous place where we were pitted against a soul reformation realm cultivator at the very least.
"You should be grateful that you got such a good deal. That amount of money is nothing when compared to the value of our lives!"
But after she refuted him, she realized that she had acknowledged the fact that he had actually lost materials worth five hundred spirit stones, an outright lie to begin with. She had even acknowledged that his losses had saved their lives.
She was trying to poke holes in his logic, but she ended up highlighting a part that she should have glossed over. Her greedy attendant wasn’t going to let go of the opportunity.
True to her suspicions, Han Xuhan’s eyes lit up with ’innocent glee’ the moment her words sank in. He looked so serious about his ’scheme’ that Xuanyuan Zhou could only give up all hopes of thwarting it.
It wasn’t as if she was against what he was trying to do. Personally, she knew it would have been difficult even for her to get out of the land of laws alive alone. She had been caught unprepared, since the spiritual backlash of losing a huge portion of her undead army had affected her pretty seriously.