Chapter 2524 - 2522: A Generous Gift
After Ao Jie left, the East Sea Dragon King called Chancellor Turtle up.
Feeling discontent, he asked Chancellor Turtle, "Did you hear what was said just now?"
"I am aware."
Chancellor Turtle nodded.
Ao Jie asked, "So what do you think about this matter? Are we just going to swallow this anger? If outsiders find out that we submitted to such an unknown person, wouldn’t they underestimate our East Sea?"
Chancellor Turtle suggested, "Actually, this matter can be resolved easily. We can play good cop, bad cop. Our Dragon Palace will take the role of the good cop and negotiate with Liangshan Island to rescue the Ninth Princess and the Imperial Son-in-law. Meanwhile, the Sea Dragon Clan can play the bad cop to probe into the details of Liangshan Island. After all, the Sea Dragon Clan has lost five experts this time and surely won’t let it go easily. If Liangshan Island truly proves formidable, we can abandon retaliatory plans. But if Liangshan Island turns out to be merely a paper tiger, we can settle scores in the fall and retrieve everything we lost."
The Dragon King laughed heartily, "A thousand-year-old turtle, a ten-thousand-year-old tortoise, you old creature are truly becoming more cunning with age!"
"The Dragon King flatters me!"
Chancellor Turtle chuckled dryly, clasped his fists in salute to the Dragon King, and withdrew.
The East Sea Dragon King drank some wine, personally penned a letter, and promptly arranged to have it sent to the Sea Dragon Clan in the Nether Sea.
On Liangshan Island, after Ao Jie returned, he and Bald Dog, along with others, clasped their fists in salutation, "Little brother greets all the senior brothers!"
The Black Dragon King exclaimed with surprise from the side, "Isn’t this Brother Ao Jie? How come you are here?"
Ao Jie smiled, "The senior brother commands, dare not not come!"
"They are your senior brothers?"
The Black Dragon King’s eyes nearly popped out.
Bald Dog and the others laughed together and asked Ao Jie, "How’s it going, what did the Old Dragon King say?"
Ao Jie replied, "Luckily, I didn’t disgrace the mission. The East Sea Dragon King has agreed to negotiate. Originally, he was preparing to send a million soldiers to attack our Liangshan Island, but a little scare from me, and he immediately stopped the troops and looked for peace."
Bald Dog laughed loudly, "Lucky him, if he dared to come, we could have emptied the East Sea."
He had people prepare seafood barbecue and arranged good wine to welcome and dust off Ao Jie.
After everyone sat down, the Little Kirin hastily asked, "Is everyone on the island well, have Second Uncle Chu and the others emerged from seclusion?"
Ao Jie shook his head, "When I came, there was still no news from Uncle Chu and the others."
The Little Kirin nodded, "Everyone’s opportunities are different, in this period we must rely on ourselves to hold on!"
Everyone nodded in agreement, raised their wine bowls together, and drank in unison.
The Little Kirin turned to Bald Dog, "Brother Dog, show everyone your gift list!"
The Ground Rat Demon King laughed, "Right, hurry up and show everyone, see if there’s anything that needs supplementing!"
Bald Dog smiled and took out a gift list from the Storage Ring, handing it to Ao Jie, "Ao Jie, take a close look and read it aloud for everyone!"
"Alright!"
Ao Jie took the gift list, opened it, and paused for a moment.
The handwriting on the gift list was not large, and the thickness was a full ten centimeters.
He first read a proclamation, "We are good citizens, never stir up trouble, living diligently and conscientious lives on the island. However, the Dragon Clan bullied us excessively, sent people to attack our home, killed countless of our brothers, destroyed tens of thousands of acres of our fertile land, and wrecked our houses and grand halls in the thousands. Luckily, we fought desperately to resist and managed to survive, capturing two of the Dragon Son and Dragon Maiden. Now the Dragon Palace only needs to compensate for our losses before we will release the Dragon Son and Dragon Maiden safely.
The compensation items are as follows: Ten billion Spirit Stones,
A million various magical weapons, swords, spears, blades, and clubs, axes, halberds, hooks, and forks.
A million types of military armor.
A million kinds of Pills.
Various corals, red corals, green corals, five-colored, seven-colored corals, a hundred thousand.
All kinds and sizes of pearls, a hundred thousand.
All types of beams, bricks, a million.
..."
This gift list encompasses items from magical weapons and pills to everyday tools, everything needed is included.
Ao Jie’s voice trembled somewhat as he read, taking quite a while to finish, then he spoke to Bald Dog awkwardly, "Brother Dog, isn’t this gift list a bit much?"
Bald Dog laughed, "Too much?"
The Ground Rat Demon King laughed, "It’s not too much, all are just worthless things, for the Dragon King it’s like plucking a hair from nine oxen."
Da Heiniu drank and said, "Your gift list is indeed too humble, not matching the status of the Dragon Maiden and Dragon Son at all. Imagine back in the Nine Domains, how impoverished that place was, dealing with the Nine Clans, a single request for ten billion Spirit Stones. And you’re asking for ten billion Spirit Stones, isn’t that smacking the Dragon King in the face?"
The Little Kirin and others laughed, "We’ve heard of the matters on the Immortal King Star, ten billion Spirit Stones is indeed a bit too little."
Bald Dog took out a brush, licked it in his mouth and said, "Makes sense!"
He asked Ao Jie to hand over the gift list and immediately changed the number to one hundred billion Spirit Stones.
Ao Jie was speechless, frightened by this group.
He could already imagine the Dragon King’s furious expression upon receiving this gift list.
The Little Kirin saw his difficult expression and smiled to comfort him, "Ao Jie, my junior brother, no need to worry. You take the gift list over first, the Dragon King will surely be unwilling. We have a backup plan that will certainly make him give in."
Bald Dog said, "Yes, you don’t need to achieve any transactions this time, leave the rest to us!"
Ao Jie nodded and breathed a sigh of relief.
He took the gift list, drank the wine, and deliberately stayed on the island for three days before sending the gift list to the East Sea.
Inside the grand hall, the Dragon King took a glance at the gift list, and just as Ao Jie imagined, erupted in furious rage, jumping up and down, "Blackmail, this is blatant extortion. Do they really think our Dragon Palace is made of mud, isn’t this just asking too much?"
He angrily threw the gift list on the ground, and shouted at Ao Jie furiously, "Go back and tell those bandits, I can only give them ten thousand Spirit Stones at most. If they’re unwilling, I’ll personally lead a million troops to annihilate their Liangshan Island."
Ao Jie took the gift list, clasped his fists to bid farewell, and returned, handing the gift list back to Bald Dog with a defeated look.
Bald Dog ground his teeth and said, "See that, they said dragon nature is stingy, quite right. If we don’t use some tricks, they really think we can’t do anything against them!"
Little Qing rolled his eyes at him, "Careful how you speak, which dragon is stingy. Don’t forget, my dad also has Dragon Blood in him."
Bald Dog chuckled, "Alright, alright, I misspoke."
Everyone shared a laugh, looking at the Little Kirin, "Big Brother Kirin, tell us what the backup plan is!"
The Little Kirin took out a talisman from his bosom, "Dad bestowed two talismans back then, this one can make the Dragon King surrender."
He called the four brothers together and took a trip to the East Sea.
After arriving above the Dragon Palace, the Little Kirin threw the talisman down.
A surge of Qi of Lunar emerged from the talisman and quickly merged into the sea.
The sea surface, which was rolling with waves, abruptly froze into a thousand miles of ice.
This kind of anti-matter energy can instantly freeze Yang water.
The ice spread outward from the talisman, one piece after another, swiftly extending over tens of thousands of meters, penetrating the seabed over a thousand meters, instantly freezing countless members of the Ocean Clan inside.
The chill spread into the Dragon Palace.
The Dragon King involuntarily sneezed heavily and quickly summoned someone to inquire, "What’s happened, why has the water temperature become so cold?"