Chapter 278 This old servant has no ill intentions!
He had been asleep for 73 years thanks to the [Half-Dream] technique, only to gain less than 45 minutes of conscious time in return. He had almost exhausted his energy just now from constantly using the [Half-Awake] technique to rewind time.
However, just now, he discovered that his skill [Half-Awake] was disabled, and the disablement period was a whopping 960 days!
If [Half-Awake] is indeed banned for 960 days, even if he encounters this person that Miyas specifically requested again, he has no confidence in gaining the upper hand in negotiations based on his mouth alone. This guy is too despicable!
Liang Pozhou repeated his previous words, using both soft and hard tactics to persuade Yu Xunge.
Time was of the essence, so Yu Xunge interrupted Liang Pozhou directly and said decisively, "Okay, I can promise you that as long as the Liang family doesn't attack me, I won't take their lives."
"And you, you must guarantee that you will not reveal our deal. You must solidify the current damage to Liang Yuchuan's body, and you must tell me the location of Miyas's remains and the method for evolving the divine talent. I will bring the remains to you. At that time, you must give me the Dragon Ancestor's Reverse Scale in your possession. We must not deceive each other. If we break our promise, I will have my life points reduced to zero on the spot, and your stone sculpture will shatter and all your skills will be disabled from now on. How about it?"
"Good! There is a Siren with milk teeth at your six o'clock position."
“I have the Oath Jewel.”
"Alright, alright, hurry up, my friend, I'm really in a hurry!" Liang Pozhou said quickly. There was no trap in this matter, and having the oath gem would be even better.
The two completed the collaboration almost as quickly as possible.
Yu Xunge took out the oath gems that she had just bought from Zhao Shuying at a high price, placed one on the crystal coffin, showed it to Liang Pozhou, and then held the other one in her hand.
Liang Pozhou sang a short song first, and then said, "I have cursed my descendants through the shackles of blood ties, and you have plenty of ways to prove it."
Even with some suspicions, Yu Xunge was still alarmed by the words "blood ties." Unusually, her mouth moved faster than her brain, and her first question was: "Aren't you going to ask her?"
Liang Pozhou replied, "Why ask about something so immoral! No... young friend, I'm not targeting you, I'm just expressing my feelings... no, this old servant has absolutely no ill intentions!!!"
Yu Xunge was silent for a moment, then used the oath gem in her hand and said, "Alright, from now on, as long as the Liang family doesn't provoke me, I will not take the lives of any Liang family members." She couldn't guarantee anything else.
Whether Liang Pozhou noticed the loophole or not, he quickly recited a list of materials and then a set of coordinates, saying, "Go here to find the remains of Miyas, swallow these materials, hold the hand of the remains, and chant a little tune. This will allow your divinely bestowed talent to evolve. I have already engraved the sheet music for the little tune on the side of the crystal coffin. After you have used up the remains of Miyas, you can bring it to me to exchange for the Dragon Ancestor's Reverse Scale."
As soon as he finished speaking, the countdown reached zero again, and Liang Pozhou fell completely silent.
Tu Lan asked curiously, "Are you really willing to let Liang Yuchuan go?"
Yu Xunge turned to a corner and put away the siren's milk tooth, saying, "Hmm, his price was high enough."
Adding to the price Liang Yuchuan has paid so far, and the potential threat of the minotaurs she left for the Liang family, the three things combined make her willing to put them aside for the time being.
Most importantly, there's still room for maneuver. Given Liang Yuchuan's personality, she could easily provoke him with a little provocation. She has plenty of ways to entrap him.
Yu Xunge walked to the crystal coffin and glanced at the little tune on it.
Tu Lan: "Something feels off about this. Did you really agree to it?"
Yu Xunge walked around the crystal coffin a few times, examining the stone carvings inside, and sighed with a smile, "Since he wants me to find Miyas's remains so much, of course I have to go and take a look."
Tulan suddenly said, "Then will you bring Miyas's remains to him? He doesn't actually care about Miyas's remains, right? What he cares about is you going to find Miyas's remains to complete your evolution."
Yu Xunge looked at Tu Lan in surprise, as if she were seeing this young dragon who was proficient in eating, drinking and having fun for the first time: "You discovered it?"
Tu Lan explained, "That's right. Just the contract traps and contract linguistics alone taught me a whole year. Putting aside all the linguistic embellishments, what he most urgently wants is for you to reconcile with the Liang family and for you to find Miyas's remains to complete the evolution of his divinely bestowed talent. All other needs are put on the back burner."
"Moreover, he also has a trap. He says it's to upgrade divinely bestowed talents, but he doesn't say whose talents are being upgraded."
The drawback of the Oath Gem compared to the Contract is that it can only be used to make an oath to stipulate what you should do, but it cannot force others to do something.
Yu Xunge patted Tu Lan's head and didn't hold back his praise: "I underestimated you before. You are really smart."
“Yes, I admit it. My wisdom is my trump card. Like you, I also like to keep something to myself.” After saying this long sentence in a deep tone, Tu Lan couldn’t help but chuckle. After chuckling for a while, her expression changed. “Then does that mean we won’t be able to get the dragon scales?”
Yu Xunge patted the crystal coffin: "Right now, I probably want him to be resurrected even more than he did."
How could she kill him if he didn't come back to life?
Although she and Tulan had disguised themselves throughout, the deal was calculated from beginning to end, showing signs of being planned for many years. She couldn't sleep or eat in peace until he died.
Moreover, if similar divinely bestowed talents can truly devour and evolve, then it is highly likely that Miyas is scheming against her divinely bestowed talent, and she cannot allow such a being to live.
Tulan: "So what do we do now?"
Yu Xunge led Tu Lan outside: "You've watched so many TV dramas, have you ever seen Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils?"
"No, what are you talking about?"
"It's a martial arts story. There's a chess game in the story called the Zhenlong Chess Game. It's an extremely ingenious chess game that a peerless genius spent years setting up in order to find a brilliant apprentice. He said that whoever could solve this chess game could become his apprentice. Everyone tried to solve the game, but no one could win it even after many years."
"Why is it so difficult?"
"The setting is like this: the game puts the player in a dilemma, unable to attack or defend. Those people are either too kind to give up their pieces or too greedy to give up their advantage. There is only one protagonist who doesn't understand chess. He makes random moves, abandoning a large number of his pieces, but accidentally solves the predicament and gets a cheat code."
"so?"
"So, let's bypass the trap, abandon the most attractive treasure, and jump straight to the ending."
Stepping outside of Miyas's chessboard and simplifying the process, this transaction was nothing more than exchanging "her cessation of attacks on the Liang family and helping Liang Pozhou send Miyas's remains by express delivery" for the Dragon Ancestor's wrath.
In the game, this would mean an S-rank mission instantly becomes a B-rank mission, with the mission chain being shortened and simplified by half.
Tulan said regretfully, "Are you really not going to evolve your divinely bestowed talent?"
Yu Xunge shook his head: "Let nature take its course. If Liang Pozhou's resurrection destroys Miyas's corpse, then so be it. If not..."
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