Warning! The evil god's minions are invading the eerie dungeon.

Yingchuan, Fengyuan Hotel.

This hotel, which has existed for over a century, not only considers financial resources when accepting guests, but also requires social status.

If star-rated hotels are high-end, sophisticated, and classy, ​​then this place is understated luxury with a touch of elegance.

It was already late.

Two sharp-looking young men with refined features were walking one after the other toward the private room in the hotel corridor.

"Brother, this is a calamity-level material, are we really going to sell it? Or sell it to someone of unknown origin... Is the person Dio found reliable?"

The younger brother behind him looked worried.

Seeing his younger brother's appearance, the young man in front looked dejected.

"What else can we do but sell? We can't use it for a while, so we might as well give it away and solve our immediate problem first."

"My third uncle is watching us like crazy right now, and the midnight student ghost thing has happened in my territory... The authorities have taken notice, and my second uncle is also getting restless. If we don't take action to deal with it soon, my reputation is doomed."

Li Song rubbed his face, took a deep breath, and continued:

"That ghost is a menace... Yingchuan is my territory, and as a result, more than a dozen people have been turned into vegetable-like patients lying in the hospital and can't be woken up."

"If a member of a wandering monk's family can't even protect ordinary people on their own territory, what right do they have to show their face in the wandering monk's circle?"

"I'm not worried about wasting this strange material right now, I'm just afraid that the person Dio found is an incompetent fool who'll just waste my time. That's why I called you here, let's test his abilities!"

"When we go in, you pretend to be a buyer also looking to purchase these strange materials, and be aggressive! Test their nerves! If they seem weak, then there's no need to say anything; they're definitely nobodies, and I'll just find an excuse to turn around and leave!"

The younger brother nodded blankly, then said with some confusion:

"Brother, I still don't understand. If we want to test him, why don't we just let him show us his skills? Why do we have to test him ourselves?"

"You just don't understand, do you?"

Li Song was smug and proud:

"Your brother might be a bit of a coward, but I do have some talent in business! When you go in, give them a real shock! If they're tough, it means they have some ability, so just be a little softer, pretend to be a competitor, and start raising the price!"

The younger brother suddenly realized:

"Damn! Bro! You're so smart! You always have a backup plan!"

"That's... hahahaha!!!"

Li Song was very pleased and laughed triumphantly.

"But brother..."

The younger brother scratched his head again, as if he had discovered some blind spot:

"What if I try to intimidate them, and they beat me up without saying a word?"

"What are you afraid of? You're an intermediate-level traveler. Even if you can't win, you can't be instantly killed. There's always a buffer period, right?"

Li Song waved his hand dismissively.

As they spoke, the two reached the door of the private room, and he turned back again to give his underlings instructions:

"Got it! What's the most important thing in negotiation? Momentum! Momentum, you understand? Be fierce!"

The younger brother was taken aback when he heard this, then frowned and bared his teeth!

"That's right! That's it!"

Li Song nodded, strutted confidently, knocked three times, and pushed the door open. Before the door was even opened, he burst out laughing, while his underling grinned and followed half a step behind.

Li Songke is cunning; he wants to play the good cop/bad cop role so he can avoid offending anyone.

"Hahahaha!!! Old Di, long time no see. The last time we met was... you..."

However, before the words were even finished, Li Song's pupils contracted.

As soon as he entered, his gaze was drawn to the young man sitting at the head of the table.

He was about 1.8 meters tall, with short hair, sharp eyebrows and phoenix eyes, and wore a cheap, ordinary shirt that looked like something you'd find at a street stall. He wasn't even wearing a formal suit.

Logically speaking, someone dressed like that wouldn't even be allowed to enter Fengyuan.

But the young man's handsome and rugged face somehow made this cheap, generic outfit look high-end.

Li Song had seen plenty of good-looking people; he wasn't that shocked.

What shocked him was the aura emanating from the young man.

The young man's expression was calm, but his gaze swept over, giving Li Song a fleeting feeling that the other man was scrutinizing his prey.

His sharpness is unrestrained, even somewhat violent, and he is completely undisguised and unrestrained.

It's ruthless!

This judgment was the first thing that came to Li Song's mind.

Then a sense of familiarity jumped into my heart!

This person... looks familiar...

I know quite a few tough people, but not many of this age...

Yes……

Me, rough?!

Li Song's eyebrows twitched, and his body couldn't help but shudder violently.

{Blood Axe Butcher} Qi Xie?!

This name has recently caused quite a stir in the Li family for some special reason!

That's why he was able to remember it so quickly.

At the same time, Qi Xie's astonishing battle record and style of doing things also came to mind...

wrong!

Li Song turned his head and tried to pull his younger brother away.

However, it was too late...

"So you're going to buy Li Song's stuff? You're really arrogant! Don't you know I was the one who wanted this first?"

The younger brother grinned and strode menacingly toward Qi Xie.

Qi Xie raised his head as soon as the two entered the door, and frowned when he saw a fool baring his teeth and walking towards him like a mother guarding her food.

"Dude? You came to my turf and robbed me without even paying your respects. Isn't that a bit underhanded?"

The younger brother approached Qi Xie with a cold smile, propped himself up on the table, and put one hand on Qi Xie's shoulder.

This is a negotiation technique that uses physical contact to exert psychological pressure on the other party, who is sitting while you are standing, given the height difference.

However, Li Song's hair stood on end almost instantly. He reached into his pocket with one hand and shouted urgently:

"wait……"

Snapped.

The younger brother placed his hand on Qi Xie's shoulder.

However, the next second, the younger brother's perspective suddenly spun around.

Hey?

The younger brother was completely bewildered and hadn't even realized what had happened.

It wasn't until the excruciating pain in his wrist and face that he recalled the scene from just now.

With terrifying speed and strength, the other party crushed his wrist and then slammed him face down on the ground like a sack of potatoes!

"Are you kidding me?! I'm an intermediate-level cultivator... I wasn't even given time to react before I was instantly killed?!"

Instantly, the intense pain and fear caused the younger brother to break out in a fine sweat.

But the next moment! A heavy force suddenly came from his back, almost crushing his sternum and heart!

The younger brother coughed up a mouthful of blood and instinctively looked forward.

Then I saw a scene I'll never forget through the hotel's floor-to-ceiling windows.

Reflections against the backdrop of night.

The young man stood on his back with one foot, his head slightly lowered, his face hidden in the shadows, only the blood-red light in his narrow phoenix eyes standing out in the shadows.

The young man's right hand had somehow grasped a blood-red axe that gleamed with a cold light. He raised it high and brought it down fiercely at the hand that was resting on his shoulder!

Almost without hesitation, he let out a heart-wrenching scream!

"elder brother--!"

"Spare his life!!"

Li Song roared as well.

However, the axe's speed didn't slow down at all!

"I'll give you a discount!!!"

The axe slammed down less than two centimeters from the younger brother's wrist.

The younger brother could even feel the strong wind generated by the blood axe scraping against his wrist, and his bladder tightened so much that he almost burst.

Qi Xie raised his head slightly.

Li Song stared nervously at himself, holding a strange little gadget in his left hand. It was shaped and sized like a watermelon, but its exterior resembled an insect's shell, with patterns on the shell that looked like a human face.

It seems that this is the calamity-level bizarre material.

"That...that's my younger brother, we...we were just playing around...hahaha..."

Seeing Qi Xie's gaze, Li Song could only awkwardly chuckle a few times.

Qi Xie looked down at his younger brother, then looked up at Li Song.

Within seconds he realized what had happened.

But the next second, he suddenly looked at Li Song and gave him a strange smile:

"Boss, are you sure this melon is ripe?"