"You'd better release us now if you know what's good for you. Killing is not allowed in this outer arena! If you do anything to harm us, our sect will not let you off the hook!" Qian Zheng kept talking, perhaps because he was nervous.
Shi Xuan looked at the twenty people sitting in a row, and finally looked at Qian Zheng and said, "Since you love to talk, then I'll choose you first."
As she spoke, she separately collected the money and put the others back into the living space.
Qian Zheng became even more nervous. He now deeply regretted talking so much earlier. The nail that sticks out gets hammered down, and he had become that nail that sticks out.
"Why did you choose me first! What's the point of choosing me! Let me go! Let me go first!"
Shi Xuan crossed his arms and watched him shout with amusement. When he finally stopped, he asked, "Tell me, what are you looking for when you come to Yema Volcano every now and then?"
Just as Qian Zheng was about to speak, Shi Xuan added, "Don't tell me you're here to collect hemp for a mission, or I'll get angry."
Qian Zheng's open mouth froze, remaining in that open position for a while, unsure of what to say.
That's exactly what he wanted to say.
If he came to Yema Volcano to collect night hemp, what else could he be doing? But Shi Xuan had already cut off what he was about to say.
Qian Zheng stammered, and then simply stopped talking.
Shi Xuan glanced at him for a few moments, knowing there were ways to avoid saying anything.
“Since you’re so unwilling to talk, I won’t force you,” Shi Xuan said. “I plan to release you.”
Qian Zheng immediately looked up at Shi Xuan, thinking to himself, "Is this for real? They've been arrested so badly, and they're going to release them so easily?" He just couldn't believe it.
“But we can’t just give them away for nothing,” Shi Xuan said with a friendly smile, coaxing, “Come on, transfer half of your points to me, consider it money to buy my life.”
"You're just transferring half of your points?" Qian Zheng asked, half believing.
Now that he has fallen into the hands of their best team, it would be a piece of cake for Shi Xuan to transfer half of the points or even take all of them.
Qian Zheng looked at Shi Xuan with suspicion, trying to figure out if she was telling the truth or lying to him.
However, what Shi Xuan said seemed to be true.
After taking half of his points, she didn't even touch the things in his storage space, and simply untied him.
Even after he was completely free, Qian Zheng still couldn't believe what he had experienced.
Putting myself in her shoes, if he had captured Shi Xuan today, she would certainly have suffered greatly. Even if he didn't kill her, he would have made her suffer. As for her belongings and points, she wouldn't be able to take a single thing with her.
But they just let him off the hook like that? This action was completely beyond his comprehension.
"What? You're not leaving and waiting for me to arrest you again? Or do you not want the other half of your points?" Shi Xuan spoke with a smile, her two dimples adding to her playful appearance. However, her smile was so over-the-top that it was impossible to discern what she was truly thinking.
But since they've already let him go, it would be foolish not to. Anyway, the worst has already happened. If he can leave, great; if he can't, he'll just get arrested again.
Qian Zheng fled quickly from the hilltop occupied by the best squad, without looking back.
He only breathed a sigh of relief after leaving the area of Yema Volcano and finding that no one was chasing him.
At this moment, Qian Zheng suddenly realized that while he had escaped, nineteen team members were still in Shi Xuan's hands. He wondered if Shi Xuan would release those team members as he had done to him.
However, at this moment he was too busy taking care of himself to care about others.
Qian Zheng took out his flying sword and flew back to his sect's headquarters.
After he left, Shi Xuan did not release the prisoners of the Hongmeng Team. Instead, he selected the Golden Core cultivator with the lowest cultivation level from among the nineteen people and fed him a True Word Pill.
"Why did the HarmonyOS team come to Yema Volcano so often? What are they here for?" Shi Xuan asked.
The disciple chosen by Shi Xuan had the lowest cultivation level and the weakest resistance. When Shi Xuan asked him a question, he answered in a daze, "I come here every month as long as there are no long missions. I come here to find the Fire Source Pearl for the captain."
Shi Xuan raised an eyebrow in surprise. So, when they saw that the volcano here had stopped erupting, they must have wanted to go in and explore.
"How did you determine that there must be a Fire Source Pearl here?" Shi Xuan asked.
The disciple frowned, seemingly troubled, and said, "The sect's great prophet once said... that there is a Fire Source Pearl in the outer realms..."
"And who is the sect's great prophet?"
"Yes, it is the Hongmeng Sect, the Great Prophet, who can foresee the future and perform divination..."
At this point, Shi Xuan basically understood what had happened. She then returned the Golden Core cultivator to her living space.
Now only the best team members are left; the members of the HarmonyOS team have either left or fled and have long since disappeared.
Chen Qi couldn't quite understand why Shi Xuan had let Qian Zheng go. He opened his mouth, but then hesitated, afraid of making himself seem stupid by asking, and finally said, "Then shall we look for the Fire Source Pearl?"
Shi Xuan nodded and said, "After Second Senior Brother finishes receiving the inheritance, we'll go down and take a look. Since we're already here, it would be better if we could find it, but if we can't, it just means our time hasn't come yet."
Shih-hsuan has always adhered to this philosophy regarding external things: it's better to have them, but it doesn't matter if you don't; everything is left to fate.
There are countless methods to cultivate in this world, and there are always more things to collect. If you want everything, you will only exhaust yourself and make your Dao heart unstable.
Moreover, she obtained the Ice Source Pearl on the floating island of the Ice Plains. Perhaps the Great Prophet misperceived it and called it the Fire Source Pearl.
"Great!" Chen Qi immediately became excited; treasure hunting was his favorite thing.
Meanwhile, Qian Zheng had almost used up his Spirit Recovery Pills during the battle. Long-distance sword flight was not his forte; in the past, he usually stood on a sword cultivator's flying sword and was carried by someone else.
Finally, after a great deal of effort, Qian Zheng managed to return to the sect's headquarters.
The Ten Continents are different from Qian Yuan; they have a larger territory and greater strength. As the largest sect on the Ten Continents, the Hongmeng Sect naturally occupies its own floating island, unlike the Western Region of Qian Yuan, where six sects share one island.
When Qian Zheng finally saw his floating island in the distance after exerting all his strength, he was almost moved to tears. Finally, he was finally back!
However, to his utter surprise, instead of the smiling faces and warm greetings from his fellow disciples, he was met with stern rebukes from the captain and the sect elders.
"Weren't you arrested? How come you're back so soon?" The one who asked the question was Yan Lingyi. He had only been back for a short time when Qian Zheng returned.
He knew Qian Zheng's speed better than anyone. His return only proved one thing: Qian Zheng had come out shortly after they escaped!
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