The hall exploded into a frenzy as each order was announced. Most of them ca from large to mid sized factions, whether they were sects, clans, or even conglorates. One of them was the Azure Sky Conglorate, which had just lost Gu Tianhe as the Azure Sky Elder.
Now the new Azure Sky Elder was soone from the clique that had opposed the Gu Clan and Gu Tianhe. They had also co to this product launch event.
The new Azure Sky Elder gave Mo Jue a gift of reconciliation by ceding one fifth of their land in the Azure River Capital City. They also gifted various cultivation resources to Mo Jue under the na of the Azure Sky Conglorate.
Thus, the feud that Gu Tianhe, the forr Azure Sky Elder, had caused with the Thousand Treasure Pavilion and the Sky Severing Demon Valley ca to an end.
As for being friendly, that was another matter entirely.
For now, the diplomatic relationship between the two sides was neutral. As long as there were no further grievances, it would remain this way and might even improve if the new board of the Azure Sky Conglorate proved to be truly sincere.
Of course, the frenzy only slowed down after Jian Ganglie announced the exact cost of each U-Phone 2, which was 3,000 spirit stones per unit. It was quite expensive.
This price made Jian Heng flinch a little, but to save face he gritted his teeth and maintained the number he had ordered.
As for Xin Hao, this price did not make his expression change even slightly. In fact, a sense of superiority seed to radiate from him, irritating the representatives of the other factions near him.
The event ended on a good note. The faction representatives, especially those with ancestors in the Immortal Realm and with the ans to send items there, all happily returned to their respective dwellings within the city.
Most of them were staying in their own flying arks. So had bought estates and spiritual caves to reside in while waiting for the first batch of goods that would arrive in a few days.
Xin Hao was, of course, staying in the extrely luxurious estate he had bought. An extravagant person like him would not settle for anything less.
— Night - Thousand Treasure City - Xin Estate —
In an opulent dining room, Xin Hao was sitting at a circular table. A full feast was laid out on the table. Around it sat several guests alongside him.
There were Wei Chen, Mo Xingyao, Dream Butterfly, and Jian Ganglie. These three had all been invited by Xin Hao because he wanted to discuss cooperation in selling the U-Phone 2 in the Vermilion Bird Province.
Amid the feast and the discussion of business deals between Xin Hao, Jian Ganglie, and Mo Xingyao, the deal was verbally finalized. Dream Butterfly, who had been eating quietly alongside Wei Chen, could not suppress her curiosity and finally asked,
"Um... Mr. Xin... I understand that for this business talk you invited Sister Mo Xingyao and Mr. Jian Ganglie to discuss business. Lord Wei was invited because he is your good brother. But... what about ? I don’t think I am needed at this table."
Xin Hao looked amused. After chewing the food in his mouth, he replied,
"That’s because you are my good brother’s woman. If I invite him and do not invite you, he might get angry at ." Xin Hao said as he glanced at Wei Chen, who was trying to remain as inconspicuous as possible during the business discussion.
"Besides... you are pleasant to the eyes. Having you sitting here makes the atmosphere in this room fresher than you can imagine," he added.
"My lord... if you continue along this route, sooner or later you might provoke another heaven chosen." Xiao i, who was standing behind Xin Hao and acting like a secretary, spoke up.
While the feast continued and banter was exchanged, the hearty and friendly atmosphere ca to a halt with a loud shout from outside.
"Xin Hao! Get out of your turtle shell and face your death!"
The voice sounded familiar. Xin Hao frowned, clearly displeased by the interruption.
Wei Chen let out a sigh. He rembered this voice. It was that edgelord guy nad Yun or sothing.
"Oh god... is this nonsense about to start again?" Wei Chen muttered under his breath.
Xiao i’s face paled. She frantically looked at Xin Hao.
"My lord! I’ll go out and talk with him!"
"That’s fine," Xin Hao said as he waved his hand, dismissing his secretary’s anxiety. "Let’s go together then. I also want to end this pointless dispute."
With that said, Xin Hao stood up. Wei Chen followed along. Since the man called him brother, he also wanted to help him avoid a bad outco.
"Do you want to stay here, or do you want to co out and see what’s happening?" Wei Chen asked the three people at the table who were not involved in the matter.
"I’ll stay here. I still have so finer points about the deal to discuss with Sect Leader Jian Ganglie. You go and enjoy the spectacle with Yu’er," Mo Xingyao replied, and Jian Ganglie nodded in agreent. He also did not want to get involved in this ss.
"Lord Wei, I’ll go with you!" With her sister’s approval, Dream Butterfly eagerly follows Wei Chen.
"Alright, follow . Don’t stay too far away, or I might not be able to protect you if things go south," Wei Chen said.
....
Outside the estate’s main building, in the courtyard, hundreds of guards had surrounded the man in black. He was dressed in black clothing with a cloak covering his right arm, standing on top of a flagpole of the Xin Clan and looking down from above.
"Of course it’s that guy," Wei Chen muttered with a sarcastic remark.
This guy was truly an edgelord, standing at a high elevation and brooding from above, looking down at the people on the ground like so kind of dramatic villain.
Wait... wasn’t that title literally Edgelord?
Well... as expected of that guy.
Wei Chen did not rember the man’s full na, only that it was Yun sothing. It was not that he disliked rembering people’s nas. It was just that this man’s overwhelming edginess had pushed all the knowledge Wei Chen had about him into the back of his mory, where he could no longer clearly recall it.
The edgelord glanced at Wei Chen, showing a brief mont of surprise, as if he had never expected to see Wei Chen here. However, he quickly focused his attention on his nesis, Xin Hao.
"So you finally ca out! I will repay what you did to tenfold!" the edgelord said through gritted teeth.
"You stole everything from ! From this day forth the Xin Clan shall..."
Xin Hao did not seem to mind and clearly did not care. He simply looked at Xiao i.
"Your fiancé ca to pick you up. Go ahead and leave with him. I will settle the final paynt according to our contract later," Xin Hao said to Xiao i.
His voice was calm and unhurried, as if this were nothing more than a simple conversation between an employer and an employee.
This sense of normalcy was sothing he had learned from Wei Chen over the past few months. He had made the employnt of this troubleso girl official and steered away from lust as much as possible, turning everything into a proper business arrangent. This way, the Heaven’s Chosen would have no reason to find fault with him and chase him like a rabid dog.
"Huh?" Xiao i was stunned. Wasn’t this the sa man who had once blackmailed her using her father’s illness because he wanted to get into her pants?
Now her father’s illness had been cured. He had even hired her and given her an education. Everything was written clearly in a contract like a normal employnt agreent. The change in this young master, who had once lusted after her, made her feel...
Strange. Weird, even.
It was not that she felt uncomfortable that he had stopped trying to bed her, but still... it’s weird.....
"What are you gawking at? Isn’t he your fiancé? Our transaction has concluded. Also, don’t forget to ping your new address so that I can send your father back to your ho," Xin Hao said as if it were a simple matter of fact.
"Err... yes, my lord." Xiao i tilted her head in confusion but still decided to walk toward her childhood sweetheart. Even though Xin Hao was rich, and his behavior had now improved and even beco reasonable, her love was still with Yun Feng.
But she still could not wrap her head around it. Was it supposed to be resolved this easily?
"Xin Hao! Your deceit will not fool ! She’s not my Xiao i, is she? If she were my Xiao i, she wouldn’t even want to look at your face!" Yun Feng said confidently.
Hearing this, Xin Hao looked at Yun Feng as if he were looking at an idiot, then he glanced at Wei Chen.
"Brother Wei... now I start to understand how you feel."
Wei Chen shrugged and did not comnt, lest his opinion irritate the edgelord and cause this guy to start hounding him as well. However, his expression clearly said it all. He agreed.
Xin Hao turned back to Yun Feng. "She’s your childhood sweetheart, you know. If you don’t believe , why don’t you ask her a question that only the two of you would know?"
Yun Feng was still skeptical, but he decided to try. In his heart, this Xin Hao must have hidden his Xiao i sowhere. He would expose this deceitful prick’s trick for everyone to see.
"If you truly are Xiao i, then answer this. In the sumr when I was six years old, when you first t , what were the first words I said to you?"
Xiao i made a face as if she had just heard a ridiculous question.
"Wait... weren’t you like five at that ti? And you didn’t say anything to . You were just crying in my father’s rice field because you got lost."
The answer made Yun Feng’s face flush with embarrassnt, but he ignored the answer and refused to acknowledge it. If he did, his image in front of so many experts would crash to the ground.
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