She turned her attention to the woman, who was determined to ruin it all for her and said, "Ruan Chanchan, do you really have to do this? Why are you doing this? Don’t you want to form an alliance with the Mighty Eagle Tribe? Why do you have to do this?"
Shao Xia wanted everyone to see that Ruan Chanchan was being hypocritical. She clearly said that she was doing this to help ther tribe but in the end, Ruan Chanchan was stopping the tribe from getting any better. Because she was selfish, she stopped Li Nuanzi from handing out a willow branch to the tribe.
Ruan Chanchan was not angry when she heard her words; instead, she laughed softly. She interlocked her fingers and asked Shao Xia, "And what can this alliance bring us? Though I admit that forming an alliance is important, do you think my skills are just worth an alliance? The dry rations they are asking for are way more important because they can save lives in winter. An alliance is the least they could offer in exchange for the life-saving food they are asking for."
"But—that’s not the only thing they want, am I correct?" Ruan Chanchan turned to look at Li Nuanzi and questioned with a tilt of her head. "You want the herbs as well as the flas, right?"
She knew that the woman was greedy for the fire and the herbs as well. Though an alliance was indeed sothing great in the eyes of these beast people, Ruan Chanchan didn’t quite believe it. After all, the flas alone were enough to get an alliance; there was no need to throw in so extra benefits like dry rations as well as the herbs and the fruits. If they did that, then the ones who would be suffering would naturally be the Big Bear Tribe.
And the biggest loss would be hers, Ruan Chanchan’s!
She was not soone who wanted to suffer any kind of loss, so how could she allow a bunch of rookies to play her? Impossible.
"Are you saying that an alliance with our tribe is not enough?" Li Nuanzi didn’t even want to offer an alliance. The big bear tribe was so small and weak that if she ford an alliance with them, it would only embarrass her and her tribe’s people but when Shao Xia put forth the term, she had no choice but to agree but now Ruan Chanchan was saying that it was not worth it?
Who was she looking down at!?
"Don’t get wrong." Ruan Chanchan blinked her charming eyes and flashed a brilliant smile at the woman. "I am just pointing out that you cannot get the holy fla from anywhere else but our tribe and unfortunately, the two tribes are very far away—which ans that even if we want to hand the fire to you, it won’t suffice."
Li Nuanzi frowned when she heard this. Indeed, if she were to take the fire back with her, then there was a very good chance that it might go off before she could even get it to the tribe.
"Then what do you suggest?"
Since this woman had pointed out the problem, certainly she knew how to deal with it as well.
Got you.
Ruan Chanchan curled her lips into a satisfied smile but that only terrified Li Nuanzi. She wondered what kind of person this woman was; sothing about her made Li Nuanzi really terrified and that too when the woman was without any spiritual energy.
"I can give you a blessed vessel that can hold these flas for you until you arrive in your tribe but that is sothing that I received from the beast goddess. If you want to take it away, then you naturally would have to give sothing worth it." Ruan Chanchan was, of course, bluffing. But she did it with so much confidence that she made even Xiao Xi wonder what kind of vessel she was even talking about.
What kind of blessed vessel did you receive? Xiao Xi asked with a frown on his face. He didn’t seem to have seen any kind of vessel that could entrap fire.
"I am talking about a lighter, silly." Ruan Chanchan rolled her eyes. Where was she going to get a vessel that could actually trap fire?
Xiao Xi: "..."
And here he thought that she really had sothing special in her hands. Turned out that she was talking about just a simple lighter.
Shaking his head side to side, he stepped back without saying anything much.
When Li Nuanzi heard that Ruan Chanchan had a vessel that could actually store the wildfire, she curled her lips and said, "There is no way. These flas are so hot that they injure us at the smallest touch; even the strongest totem warriors cannot touch these flas. So how can you lock it away in a vessel?"
Li Nuanzi didn’t quite believe that anyone could store the flas in a vessel.
She had once tried to touch the flas at the beast temple and nearly lost a layer of skin. So, how could soone like Ruan Chanchan even touch those things, much less trap them in a little vessel?
Ruan Chanchan didn’t waste her ti quibbling. Instead, she took the lighter out of her space and with a click opened it. A small fla lit up in the air, making the entire crowd gasp in surprise, as they had never seen sothing like this before. This was the first ti they saw soone create fire from a tiny little thing. How could they not be surprised?
Ruan Chanchan was satisfied with the look of surprise on the faces of her spectators and asked in a low voice, "So does Miss Li still think that I am being a bit too harsh with my terms? I am basically giving you away a blessed artefact. Sothing that even the beast temple cannot take out. So am I still being wrong by asking for sothing more than an alliance?"
Li Nuanzi pursed her lips. She wanted to say that Ruan Chanchan was indeed asking for far too much but after looking at the vessel in her hands, she couldn’t bring herself to say that the woman was asking for way too much. After all, the thing was indeed unique and not sothing that she had ever seen in her life before. She sucked in a breath and then asked in a calm voice, "Then what do you want in exchange?"
"Nuanzi!" Li Rong turned and looked at his cousin in shock. He couldn’t believe that the woman was willing to agree to Ruan Chanchan’s term. Even though he was smitten with her earlier because of how good she looked, after finding out that she was none other than Ruan Chanchan, he wanted to go against her. Thus, when he heard that his sister was willing to listen to her nonsense, he couldn’t help but raise his voice in objection.
"Shut up," Li Nuanzi snapped. She turned to look at Li Rong and glared at the idiot. Did he think that this was the ti for him to act up? If his beloved Shao Xia was not useless in handling this woman, would they have to worry about being fooled by Ruan Chanchan?
Li Rong opened his mouth but sensing the dangerous aura emanating from his cousin, he pursed his lips and turned silent. He wanted to say that Li Nuanzi was being fooled by Ruan Chanchan but he couldn’t bring himself to say a thing. After all, his cousin was his mother’s favorite student and when he was leaving the tribe, his mother had specifically told him that he should follow his cousin and not cause any trouble. If his cousin complained against him in front of his mother, he was worried that his mother would punish him.
He could only stay quiet and let his sister deal with Ruan Chanchan. However, at the sa ti, he felt really dissatisfied with the female. What was good about her? Even if she was good-looking, in the end she was nothing special. She didn’t even have a core. She was basically useless and yet she didn’t understand her own position. How dare she try to ask for things that she was not even worthy of?
"Two hundred bamboo tubes of salt." Ruan Chanchan opened her mouth and put forth her demand right away without holding back. She knew that the demand that she had placed was not light at all. After all, the bamboo tubes were not small and their size was indeed quite large. But at the sa ti, Ruan Chanchan didn’t think that her demand was too presumptuous after all; she was giving them an unlimited supply of fire for a while.
Li Nuanzi was taken aback after listening to her request. "You are asking for way too much, Miss Ruan. Two hundred bamboo salt tubes for such a small vessel... I don’t think you are being fair."
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