Grinding EXP From a Demon Hunting Ship

In doing so, she would cement the Zhao Family’s position as second only to the Yun Family within the Wanlong Commerce Association!

At this thought, Zhao Jiuhuang blinked, a gleam in her eyes as she shifted her way of thinking.

She gave a flirtatious smile, curtsied gracefully, and made a gesture of goodwill toward Su Ye.

"My apologies..."

"I was rude."

"You’re being too formal."

"Mr. Zhao, I’ve heard much about you."

Su Ye’s smile was gentle, showing no signs of arrogance.

The outcome was just as he had predicted. After her initial impulse, Zhao Jiuhuang had quickly recognized the reality of the situation.

After all, ’who would offend me over a corpse?’

Su Ye chuckled softly. His handsome, almost demonic face looked even more divine under the sunlight.

"My forces alone can’t possibly swallow all the assets and properties the Chu Family left behind in Nanyaoguang Corporation..."

Su Ye said, feigning difficulty as he looked at the two Golden Core cultivators with a candid gaze.

"I can help with that!"

"Rest assured, Mr. Su. The price the Zhao Family offers will certainly satisfy you."

Zhao Jiuhuang’s eyes lit up as she eagerly proposed.

"Shenxiao Pavilion can help too! Don’t think you can have it all for yourselves, Zhao Family!" Lin Yinxiu interjected.

"Mr. Su, you’ve just entered the Golden Core Realm. Your bonded artifact hasn’t been re-forged and upgraded yet, has it? I may not be the best, but I know a thing or two about Artifact Refining. In fact, I am the only Fourth-Rank Artifact Refining Grandmaster in the entire Day Flame Sea Region!"

"We can discuss it."

Su Ye chuckled softly.

’These two Golden Core cultivators both had a mediocre relationship with the Chu Family. They can be won over!’

With flashes of Divine Sense, the three Golden Core cultivators quickly communicated, establishing an agreement and reaching a preliminary division of the spoils!

Most cultivators were cold-blooded and selfish, always putting their own interests first.

Now, Chu Wunian was dead!

The Chu Family’s decline was inevitable. That being the case, they would naturally side with the victor to carve up the Chu Family’s inheritance!

Su Ye saw this with perfect clarity and couldn’t help but sneer. If he had been the one to die in this battle, these same Golden Core cultivators would be gathered together right now, carving up his legacy!

’This is reality!’

Su Ye glanced over.

At that moment, in a patch of grass not far away, Chu Wunian’s headless corpse lay quietly on the ground, mixed with a mess of red and white.

Fresh blood, still warm, was flowing out like a spring.

...

The agreement was made, the division complete.

The three Golden Core cultivators returned to Cloud Sea Immortal City, declared an end to the lockdown, and brought the chaos to a close!

Seeing this, the cultivators of the Chu Family understood the reality of their situation.

"The Ancestor has fallen!"

"It’s over! The Chu Family is finished!!!"

Realizing this, most of the cultivators collapsed to the ground in terror, wailing in despair as they were shackled with Sealing Iron Rings and taken into custody.

At the same time, a portion of the cultivators, overcome with emotion, rose up in resistance.

The Chu Family had supported its retainers for centuries; there were bound to be some loyalists.

But not many.

Just a few hundred.

Su Ye acted personally, and in less than five seconds, he had slaughtered every last one of them.

With a mere flex of his Divine Sense, the bodies of these rebels swelled up like balloons and then exploded!

POP!

The ground was littered with severed limbs and chunks of flesh. Scarlet blood stained the city walls and seeped into the cracks between the bricks.

Even the cultivators present, all of whom had experience with battle and slaughter, felt the urge to vomit at the sight!

It was too gruesome!

Among the cultivators present, besides the Golden Core masters, only one person’s expression remained unchanged, their eyes glinting with fire!

It was Zhao Quling, dressed in white with her hair in a high ponytail tied by a red ribbon, her heart pounding with excitement!

She had won her bet!

’Mr. Su really won!’

’Oh, no.’

’I should be calling him Mr. Su now!’

Then, Zhao Quling’s gamble paid off.

Su Ye gave her a gentle smile and gestured. "Chu Wunian has been executed, but many remnants of the Chu Family are still hiding in the city. I’ll have to trouble you with these miscellaneous matters."

"As you command!"

Zhao Quling was overjoyed!

’Confiscating their assets and purging the remnants of the Chu Family... this is a very lucrative task!’

"Mm."

Su Ye nodded slightly, and his figure dissolved into shadows and vanished.

Zhao Quling bowed as he left, a sudden wave of melancholy washing over her. Now that Su Ye was a Golden Core master, the difference in status between them was immense.

"Sigh..."

"Oh well. Let’s go."

"We’re going to confiscate their assets. Lock down the whole city; don’t let any of them escape."

Zhao Quling ordered, taking control of the city’s defenses and operating the City Defense Array.

That night, a bloody storm swept through Cloud Sea Immortal City.

The powers within the immortal city that had clung to the great tree of the Chu Family, with all their tangled roots, were about to face a major reshuffling!

...

Su Ye had no mind for such trivial matters.

At this moment, his figure flickered and appeared in the core of Cloud Sea Immortal City, before a towering spire built of black stone that soared into the clouds. At its peak was a strange-looking metal rod.

To Su Ye, it looked a bit like a communication antenna he had seen in his past life.

"Mr. Su."

Lin Yinxiu and Zhao Jiuhuang were waiting there.

Seeing Su Ye appear from the shadows, they greeted him.

"The Lightning Tower."

"It amplifies signals for ultra-long-distance communication."

"It can transmit a signal from Cloud Sea Immortal City all the way to the front lines."

"If you’re willing to spend the Spirit Stones to charge it, you can even maintain real-time visual communication for a while... This is my creation. Not bad, right?"

Lin Yinxiu approached and said softly.

’Re-forging and upgrading a bonded artifact is a huge commission. I have to show off my work to make the client feel confident.’

"Alright, let’s head inside."

"Wiping out the Chu Family, killing that old codger Mr. Chu..."

"This is a major event. We have to explain it to Mr. Yun and Mr. Zuo, give them some kind of account."

"Don’t worry, we’re on your side. There’s not much they can do except accept the new reality."

Zhao Jiuhuang shrugged and said nonchalantly.

She was holding a glass cup filled with a viscous, dark green liquid that had a strange smell. Zhao Jiuhuang paid it no mind, biting a straw as she blissfully sipped it.

Noticing Su Ye’s gaze, she shook the glass cup to show him.

"Vegetable and fruit juice."

"It’s a mix of thirty-five kinds of Spirit Fruits and spirit vegetables. Very nutritious."

"Mr. Su, want to try some?"

"No need. I appreciate the thought," Su Ye said, his mouth twitching. He was speechless. He was certain that vegetable and fruit juice had to taste absolutely awful.

They stepped into the Lightning Tower.

Similar to the Black Flame Fortress, the walls and ceiling were silver-white.

As they entered the central plaza, a massive crystal screen, over a hundred feet high and wide, was embedded in the wall directly facing Su Ye.

HUMMM.

The crystal screen lit up.

Flashes of electric light flickered across it.

A moment later, an aged face appeared on the crystal screen. It was a face that commanded authority without anger, its brows furrowed in a deep stare.

It was Mr. Yun of the Longevity Yun Family!

Su Ye looked up and met his gaze calmly.

’Late-stage Golden Core? Nothing but a bag of old bones waiting for the grave!’

’Besides, given the current situation in the sea region, the Flame Alliance has no choice but to compromise this time.’

’The reason is simple. The Flame Alliance cannot afford the consequences of making an enemy of me!’

Their gazes met, clashing in an instant.

A strong sense of disgust rose in Mr. Yun’s heart.

It wasn’t just because of Su Ye’s series of actions—killing Chu Wunian, intimidating Cloud Sea Immortal City, and so on. That was a private grudge between him and the Chu Family.

As the victim, Su Ye was in the right. Strictly speaking, it could only be considered excessive self-defense.

What truly displeased Mr. Yun was Su Ye’s eyes!

In this person’s eyes, he could not see a single trace of reverence. Not a single shred!

’Brazen! Utterly lawless!’

This was Mr. Yun’s assessment of Su Ye!

To be honest, he really wanted to kill Su Ye, to kill this wantonly reckless bastard!

But a sense of powerlessness crept into his heart.

"Haaa..."

"The Chu Family started this trouble, and now they’ve paid the price. They brought it upon themselves."

"As for the Chu Family’s assets, we will use your proposed plan for their distribution as the basis."

"However."

"Chu Wunian’s death will have a negative impact on the war effort in the sea region."

"Thirty percent of the Chu Family’s assets will be turned over to the public treasury to supplement our war funds. Any objections?"

Hearing this, Lin Yinxiu and Zhao Jiuhuang’s faces lit up with joy.

Mr. Yun’s proposal was, in other words, a way to launder the money—they would hand over a portion of the "dirty" assets in exchange for official recognition, allowing them to legally swallow a huge portion of the Chu Family’s fortune!

Given the sheer scale of the Chu Family’s wealth, even after losing thirty percent, the amount they stood to gain was still a colossal sum!

However.

"I have an objection."

"My contributions to the Flame Alliance’s war effort have been outstanding. That thirty percent should rightfully be mine."

Su Ye said with a straight face.

"Nonsense!"

"You have made no contribution whatsoever! In fact, you are guilty of dereliction of duty!"

Mr. Yun said coldly.

"Is that so?"

Su Ye gave a mysterious smile and tossed out a severed head from his Storage Ring.

"It’s saturated with the Power of Rules... This is the head of a Golden Core master!"

"That face..."

"It’s Yinshan from the Candle Python Cave?!"

Gazing at the severed head, the Golden Core cultivators were all struck speechless, their hearts churning with turbulent waves of shock!