Family Cultivation: Rise of the Wilderness

Chapter 420 Fox Tail
"Are you threatening me?"

As soon as Li Xiangming finished speaking, Wang Su suddenly stood up, revealing the aura of a late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator.

"In my opinion, it seems like Elder Wang is making things difficult for people."

Li Xiangming sneered, showing no fear whatsoever.

Although Wang Su's cultivation level was far higher than his, he was there to do business, and even if the deal fell through, they would still be on good terms.

If the old man were to take action against him based solely on verbal disputes, how would outsiders view the Shengyi Sect?
Not to mention his special identity as a cultivator from the Li family. Attacking him would mean that Shengyi Sect would gain a formidable enemy from behind the Li family for no reason.

Everyone says that old people become wiser, and he didn't believe that Wang Su was so foolish.

Wang Su seemed surprised by Li Xiangming's composure, his expression dark and uncertain, lost in thought.

Yu Liu, standing to the side, was extremely anxious. He quickly spread his arms and stood between the two, saying, "What are you doing? Nephew Li, you should be more polite in front of Elder Wang. Really!"

After complaining a couple of times about Li Xiangming, Yu Feixuan turned to Wang Su with a fawning smile and said, "Elder Wang, you are a magnanimous person. Don't take it personally with a young man. Business should be discussed slowly."

Wang Su glanced at him and snorted, "I've looked at the catalog of spirit herbs. They sell for at most seven or eight hundred spirit stones, but you want my Shengyi Sect to pay thirteen hundred spirit stones. Do you really think our sect's spirit stones grow on trees?"

"Seven or eight hundred spirit stones?"

Li Xiangming said with a sneer, "Elder Wang, do you think you can just open your mouth and the spirit herbs will fly back to Shengyi Sect? Procurement, transportation, management—which of these doesn't require spirit stones? If your sect thinks it's so easy to get things done, why bother meeting with a small merchant guild like ours?"

Wang Su, thoroughly humiliated by the mockery, lost even more face and retorted angrily, "If it weren't for the sake of Flying Fox Cave, how could your so-called Spirit Serpent Merchant Guild be qualified to discuss this business with Sheng Yi Sect?"

Li Xiangming retorted sharply: "The Spirit Serpent Merchant Guild is too small to presume to join the Shengyi Sect. I'll say it again: the Shengyi Sect isn't the only sect on Mount Dai. The Zhenhun Sect must also be eager for these spiritual herbs."

"Arrogant young man!"

Wang Su was furious: "If you dare to sell the spirit herbs to the Soul Suppressing Sect, I will make sure you never leave this dense forest again."

"You can't scare me here."

Li Xiangming's expression calmed down: "The Spirit Serpent Merchant Guild is not my personal guild, nor are the spirit herbs my personal herbs. Merchants pursue profit. Shengyi Sect has cut itself off from us. In the future, there will be ten or a hundred more batches of spirit herbs sent to Zhenhun Sect. All of this is foreseeable."

Wang Su stared intently at Li Xiangming, as fallen leaves scattered on the ground swirled and flew up.

Seeing the atmosphere growing increasingly tense, Yu Feixuan quickly stepped in to smooth things over, saying, "It's not that serious, it's not that serious! After learning that the Spirit Serpent Merchant Guild had this batch of spiritual herbs, Nephew Li immediately came to me to discuss it, expressing his willingness to sell to Shengyi Sect. This shows that Nephew Li still prefers Shengyi Sect."

"But when it comes to business, everyone wants to make more money. It's reasonable for Nephew Li to ask for a higher price, and Elder Wang shouldn't be angry about it. In my opinion, there's still room for negotiation. Nephew Li should also lower the price appropriately and understand the difficulties faced by Shengyi Sect..."

As Yu Feixuan spoke, he frantically tried to wink at Li Xiangming.

Li Xiangming was displeased; he hated people who went back on their word. This old fellow Wang Su had interfered and crossed his bottom line.

If this was the only batch of spiritual herbs, he would have already turned away and left, even if it meant earning less, rather than suffer this humiliation.

However, considering that there would be more transactions involving spiritual herbs later, he patiently stayed.

Yu Liu lived up to his reputation for being shrewd. While observing Wang Su's expression, he bargained with Li Xiangming and finally brought the price of the spiritual herb down to one thousand spirit stones.

Li Xiangming was not satisfied with this price, having lost three hundred spirit stones for nothing.

But it's not unacceptable.

After all, he had already wasted too much time on Shengyi Sect. If he couldn't sell the spiritual herbs, he would have to find buyers again.

Despite his confident promise to sell to the Soul Suppressing Sect, Zhao Jindou's whereabouts are currently unknown. Trying to establish connections with the Soul Suppressing Sect on his own will be no easier than trying to do so at the Shengyi Sect.

Other customers who could consume such a large quantity of spiritual herbs were extremely rare. Seeing Li Xiangming finally nod in agreement, Yu Feixuan breathed a sigh of relief and then turned to Wang Su, trying his best to persuade him.

After a long pause, Wang Su still wore a sour expression: "A thousand spirit stones is barely enough, but I have one more condition!"

"What conditions?"

Yu Feixuan hurriedly asked.

Wang Su looked at Li Xiangming with a sharp gaze: "Make the Li family disband their so-called Demon Hunting Guild, and do not allow them to obstruct the Shengyi Sect from recruiting demon hunting cultivators and demon hunting teams!"

Monster Hunter Guild?

Li Xiangming was taken aback for a moment, then sneered inwardly. The old man had finally shown his true colors.

Any expensive "miracle herbs" are fake.

Shengyi Sect is not short of spirit stones; their real target is the demon-hunting cultivators of Puyin Mountain.

A while ago, the Zhenhun Sect and Shengyi Sect sent people to the central Puyin Mountain to recruit demon-hunting cultivators, but the response was lukewarm. Seeing that they could not complete the mission, the disciples of the two sects unanimously thought of forcibly taking some people back with them.

Who would have thought that demon hunters, who spend their days with demons and beasts, are full of murderous aura and have terrible tempers, even though they haven't been through the baptism of the battlefield.

Coincidentally, one of the demon-hunting cultivators captured by the Soul Suppressing Sect came from the Azure Frost Demon-Hunting Team.

The Qing Shuang Demon Hunting Group is quite powerful in Puyin Mountain. Their leader, Liu Qingzhou, is known as the "Viper," not only for his cunning and treacherous nature but also for his ruthless methods.

Upon learning that his subordinates had been captured, Liu Qingzhou flew into a rage and immediately led his men to attack the recruitment camp built by the Zhenhun Sect. He also took advantage of the chaos to kill a Zhenhun Sect disciple, causing a great uproar.

Not only that, but that same night, other demon-hunting groups also launched a well-organized attack on Shengyimen's team. Although no one was injured, they still managed to wipe out Shengyimen's efforts of the past half month.

Afterwards, the Demon Hunter Guild stepped forward and called on all the demon hunter groups in Puyin Mountain to unite against the two sects, and explicitly prohibited any demon hunter group from going to Dai Mountain to work for the two sects.

It was only at this point that the two realized the seriousness of the situation.

After more than ten years of war, Daishan has reached its limit in terms of the number of cultivators it can recruit or forcibly conscript. Now it is extremely dependent on external cultivators to participate in the war, especially the brave demon hunters.

In order to salvage their image and win the support of demon-hunting cultivators, the Zhenhun Sect did not even dare to retaliate against Liu Qingzhou's Qingshuang Demon-Hunting Team, while the Shengyi Sect apologized to the abducted cultivators and offered them kind words of advice.

But the reputations of both cases are already utterly tarnished.

In the past three months, only a handful of demon-hunting teams have gone to Daishan to participate in the battle.

It was a world of difference compared to the usual bustling atmosphere.

Shengyi Sect clearly believes that the culprit behind this situation is the Demon Hunter Guild, which is why they took advantage of this opportunity of the spirit herb trade to demand that the Li family restrain or even disband the Demon Hunter Guild.

Once he understood all this, Li Xiangming immediately distanced himself from the matter: "The Demon Hunting Guild was spontaneously established by various demon hunting groups in Puyin Mountain. The Li family was merely a participant. At most, we would withdraw from the guild. How could we talk about disbanding it?"

"Furthermore, the Li family has never prevented any demon-hunting groups or demon-hunting cultivators from going to Dai Mountain. Elder Wang, please don't make false accusations."

Wang Su frowned, his face full of disbelief: "I have already inquired, and the top-ranked Demon Hunting Guild is none other than your Li family's Golden Eye Demon Hunting Team!"

"so what?"

Li Xiangming disagreed: "Since Elder Wang has inquired about the Demon Hunting Guild, he should know that it is an extremely loose organization. The Golden Eye Demon Hunting Team is ranked first because of their large number of members and outstanding strength, not because they are the leaders."

(End of this chapter)