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Chapter 1358 A Maliciously Exorbitant Demand

The moment the ginseng fruit entered the city, Long Ling sensed it. After a brief moment of surprise, he instantly understood what Yun Ran wanted to do.

On the surface, he and Yunran are together, but in the eyes of those in the temple, their personnel arrangements have already been decided.

The ginseng fruit and Erdan can be considered as a parallel subplot, and even Chi Yao is probably included in another subplot by Yun Ran.

This was just what Long Ling could guess; he had no idea whether there were any other clues hidden in the shadows.

She plans ten steps ahead for every step she takes, and she never puts all her eggs in one basket. That's what makes Yun Ran truly terrifying.

Thinking of this, Long Ling took a deep breath.

Then he glanced at the direction Yunran had left in and suddenly felt that the people of the temple seemed to be having bad luck.

Even if they don't betray Yunran in the end, Yunran holds a deep grudge against them for what they did before, and she will make them suffer sooner or later!

"Fortunately...fortunately, I was on the same boat as Yunran early on, otherwise, I wouldn't even know how I died."

The Azure Dragon and his group, who had been gloating over Long Ling's impending doom, now had their brows furrowed.

"Well, Fellow Daoist Yun, it's not that we're stingy, it's just... don't you think your proposed distribution of profits is excessive?"

They knew Yunran was difficult to deal with, but they didn't expect her to be this difficult.

They had never encountered such a situation before when they came down the mountain.

Yun Ran crossed her legs and casually fiddled with her nails, looking completely nonchalant.

There was absolutely no seriousness that should be present in a formal negotiation setting.

Hearing the irritation and hidden anger in Qinglong's tone, Yunran chuckled: "When you ask for help, you should have the right attitude."

Don't tell me that when you used to ask people for favors, you gave the lion's share of the profits to them while still treating them with utmost respect.

Upon hearing this, the three people sitting opposite Yun Ran felt as if they had been slapped in the face.

They...they treat others with the utmost respect by not deliberately suppressing or belittling them.

Not to mention giving others enough respect and benefits, that's impossible.

After all, their very presence represents privilege, and under that privilege, there is only one voice: theirs.

Now, Yun Ran's opening remarks are aimed at seizing their right to speak and their biggest share of the profits; it's practically like cutting off their own flesh.

"Fellow Daoist Yun, you can't say that. This mission was planned long ago. You were just added on the spot and are not the most important part."

We're already showing you our utmost sincerity and making the greatest concession by offering you one-third of our profits!

This time, it was the young prince who spoke. He had seen greedy people before, but Yun Ran's greed had exceeded his tolerance.

Even he, the young prince who represented the face of the royal family and was responsible for providing all the supplies and most of the basic personnel, was affected.

They received less than a third of the profits, so why should Yun Ran get them?

Yunran continued to fiddle with her fingernails, as if they were some rare treasure.

"Oh, you don't have to agree. I'm not a robber. If you don't give it to me, I can't just steal it, can I?"

Yun Ran's shameless and ruthless appearance almost caused the three people opposite him to lose their composure.

This isn't negotiation at all. They've come this far, yet they're still asking for the moon without offering any room for negotiation. How can we even talk like this?
The situation suddenly became tense. Yun Ran wasn't in a hurry, but the people on the other side were so angry that they didn't know what to say.

After a while, the bald monk spoke up: "Fellow Daoist Yun, your insistence on sticking to your guns and refusing to budge an inch is not a sincere attempt at negotiation."

When Yun Ran was criticized like this, she glanced at the crowd and the nonchalant smile on her face disappeared.

"Sincerity? Don't you want to look at the territory you're on? You forced your way into my stronghold and captured my people."

Now, I'm not directly settling scores with you; I'm already being generous by sitting down and talking to you.

If any of you could outdo me today, I'm afraid I wouldn't even have the chance to sit here and express my opinion.

"But you can't control me, so you have no choice but to accept my offer, or get out!"

When Yunran is magnanimous, she truly is; but when she is narrow-minded, she is smaller than the tip of a needle.

When she's being calculating, she'll try to get every single penny of benefit into her own pocket.

Having stated her demands and made her threats, there was no need to continue dawdling here; after all, she wasn't the one in a hurry.

Yunran stood up abruptly and patted her slightly wrinkled cloak.

His tone returned to its previous indifferent attitude.

"Alright, I've discussed the requirements. If you want me to join you, the price is fixed. You can think about it slowly and let me know when you've made up your mind."

Yunran turned and left, and no one stopped her.

Until Yunran's figure disappeared through the archway at the corner.

Qinglong slammed down his teacup, his expression icy.

"Senior brother, Yunran's demands have exceeded our expectations. Judging from her expression, it's clear that she's not going to compromise..."

Previously, the bald monk only needed to do the work; he didn't need to deal with these disputes at all.

Now that I've personally experienced it, I realize there's just too much mess involved.

"She did it on purpose, taking all the things we did before into account."

Even though he knew Yunran was doing it on purpose, and even maliciously making an exorbitant demand, Qinglong simply couldn't bring himself to say that he didn't need Yunran's words.

Their mission was to directly kill the fallen gods hiding in the forbidden area and retrieve their remains.

However, the success rate is only 30% at most.
Even if he and Baihu had ways to save their lives, with such a low success rate, the losses would still be devastating; at least 80% of the people they brought would die.

But that was before they discovered the existence of the Dragon Spirit. If the Dragon Spirit and Yun Ran had joined them, their success rate would have increased to at least 80%.

This is not just a simple 50%; it involves the lives of hundreds of elite soldiers and the chance to capture a fallen god alive.

Given this comparison, there's no need to even think about which to choose.

After a long silence, the young prince spoke with some uncertainty: "How about we skip Yunran and go directly to that dragon spirit?"

I simply don't believe that a powerful demon in human form could have such a close and cooperative relationship with a human.

I checked before, and there is no master-servant contract binding them.

If we can persuade him, we can completely kick Yun Ran out of the game, and then the problem will be easily solved, right?