道罗邪皇子 (邪神之道 B4)

Bidding for the Services

"Ahem."

The grand matriarch of the Nie family, Niè Xiào (聂肖) clears her throat as she places the wide sleeves of her deep blue robes to her mouth.

The grand matriarch appearance looks just as young as Nie Xuxu and is equally just as beautiful despite how her white hair contrasts with her young appearance.

"Might the gentlemen of the two sides propose what you are willing to offer in exchange for our assistance in your... Altercation?"

Cutting right to the chase Nie Xiao speaks with a smile of amusement. Due to the circumstances of the situation between the two sides she is expecting both sides to be willing to expend a great deal of wealth to buy their services in their eventual war.

Every single person with experience on the battlefield can readily agree that the first step towards winning a war is to make the best preparations possible. With that being the case the Nie family's services are of absolute necessity to both sides.

"..."

Keeping his face looking forward Yao Zhen Tian felt extremely awkward about the situation as the current clan chief of the Nie family, Niè Yīn (聂音) looks towards him with a piercing gaze that is similar to an arrow's sharpened tip.

The appearance of Nie Yin dressed in a floral set of pink robes looked charming to the eyes and despite the unhappy look on her face there is something about it that makes one's heart skip a beat when looking right at her face.

"..."

Chi Zhou Chen looks to Yao Zhen Tian who closes his eyes and shakes his head seemingly unwilling to speak as he presses a slip of paper onto the table between them.

Written onto the slip of paper are all the things that the Yao family are willing to offer up in this supposed auction.

Looking through the slip of paper Chi Zhou Chen nods before looking towards the other side.

"The Wei family and the Chen family are willing to offer more than ten different cultivation methods of the highest level to the Nie family for their assistance."

Seeing as how the Yao and Chi family aren't going to speak first Chen Ziyang smiles and clasps his hands together to Grand Matriarch Nie Xiao and proposes his offer.

Both sides know that the Nie family has always been severely lacking in cultivation techniques and the few high-grade methods that they do have are highly selective of a person's natural born physique.

"A generous offer indeed. And what of the Yao and Chi family?"

Inwardly shaking his head and sighing Chi Zhou Chen knew that he would have to act as the speaker in this situation.

"The Yao and Chi family are willing to give double the amount that the Wei and Chen family just offered."

This naturally won't be coming out of the Chi family's pockets but the Yao family's instead.

Hearing this Grand Matriarch Nie Xiao raises an eye of temptation.

"But will those cultivation methods be any good and will they suit the clansmen of the Nie family well?"

With a taunting smile on his face Chen Ziyang looks to the Yao and Chi family side. Upon Chen Ziyang waving a hand a total of ten jade slips appear in the air. Each slip contains an incomplete cultivation technique.

"Grand matriarch you may appraise these to your liking."

Shifting the ten jade slips to Grand Matriarch Nie Xiao Chen Ziyang smiles.

In a calm manner Grand Matriarch Nie Xiao looks through each of the jade slips. To her surprise all of these cultivation methods are suitable for her clansmen and they were indeed good.

"..."

However, the accuracy of how well these cultivation methods suited her clansmen caused Grand Matriarch Nie Xiao to feel a great sense of wariness towards the Wei and Chen family. Naturally she didn't allow her sense of wariness to show on her face at this time.

The other side has clearly done a great deal of digging on their end to obtain this kind of information. With that being the case their information network can only be described as frightening.

Upon finishing her examination Grand Matriarch Nie Xiao nods in approval before turning her eyes that are shining with anticipation towards the Yao and Chi family once more.

"..."

Towards this situation Chi Zhou Chen inwardly makes a strange expression with how Grand Matriarch Nie Xiao isn't bothering to hide her temptations at all. She is basically using this method as a means of getting the two sides to raise their bid.

"The cultivation methods that we are offering are provided to us by the Yao family's divine ancestor."

With Ye Gui Feng's current status and fame these words alone carried a great deal of weight to them.

Towards these words Grand Matriarch Nie Xiao closes her eyes to ponder as she naturally understood the meaning behind Chi Zhou Chen's words.

Anything backed up by the Yao family's divine ancestor at this time is something that every single person would pay a great deal of attention to.

"..."

For a while Chen Ziyang doesn't say a word until the middle-aged man sitting by his side slowly opens his eyes.

The moment this person opened his eyes the temperature in the meeting halls started to drop causing many to shiver.

Within the man's eyes one can easily see a mark that resembles a skull that seems to be laughing.

Upon looking at this laughing skull every single member of the senior generation finally realized the identity of this man whose body is releasing a dark mist. This dark mist would form into the faces of smiling ghosts before breaking apart.

"My, apologizes for not recognizing you sooner Daoist friend Guǐ Dào Zi (鬼道子)."

Towards the middle-aged man whose Daoist name is Gui Dao Zi Grand Matriarch Nie Xiao smiles lightly with a nod.

"..."

Similarly Gui Dao Zi nods back in greeting before looking towards the Yao and Chi family.

"The Wei family is willing to offer an 280,000 year old spirit beast to obtain the Nie family's assistance."

"..."

Hearing this Chi Zhou Chen frowns. This entire situation really is starting to become more and more like an auction.

Ancient spirit beasts are considered something of great value to the Nie family as well due to one of their cultivation methods.

"A 280,000 year old spirit beast?"

Raising his hand Gui Dao Zi sends a jade slip to Grand Matriarch Nie Xiao.

Within the jade slip Grand Matriarch Nie Xiao sees the mentioned spirit beast causing her to smile.

"A good one for certain. Does the Yao and Chi family have anything that can top this."

The grand matriarch readily tosses the jade slip to the Yao and Chi family side to which Chi Zhou Chen catches and looks through.

"..."

A frown appears on Chi Zhou Chen's face upon seeing the spirit beast that is a Qilin. Judging by the emerald scales on this beast's body it's quite pure in its bloodline.

"Cultivation methods, magic arts, other than materialistic resources of wealth I'd say we have it all."

Just as Chi Zhou Chen is pondering about what to say the figure of a young man dressed in a black set of robes strolls right into the meeting halls in a casual manner.