"She likes me?
How is that possible? "
Lu Li rolled his eyes. He thought it was a joke.
That was a young lady of the Bai Family. She was at the middle stage of the Soul Pond Realm and had Seventh-rank Bloodline. She was blessed by the heavens. How could she like a little Island Owner of the Blood Evil Island?
It was said that the twins were going to marry warriors of the Human Sovereign Realm. Lu Li didn't have the ambition to reach the Human Sovereign Realm.
At his current speed, it would take him years to reach the Eternal Realm. By then, the twins would be married.
A young lady of the Bai Family liked him?
Lu Li didn't dare to think about it. He shook his head and walked towards the Dragon Elephant Mountain with Hunchback Tian. As for the threat of the Yu Family mentioned by Bai Qiuxue, Lu Li didn't take it to heart.
The Yu Family had just suffered a setback. Unless Yu Huashen wanted to be exterminated, he wouldn't dare to play any tricks.
Lu Li went back to the Dragon Elephant Mountain and asked Hunchback Tian to get Patriarch Seven and the others to dig a huge grave and a small one. Then he took out the bones and the body of his Sixth Granduncle and buried them in a grand manner.
He had his eyes on the Dragon Elephant Mountain for a long time. It was not convenient to bury the bones and the body of his Sixth Granduncle with the twins here. Naturally, it was time to bury them now.
No one could tell whose the bones belonged to so they had to be buried together. When the earth was covered, Lu Li knelt down and made an oath — he would spend his entire life to destroy the Yu Family to comfort his grandpa's soul in heaven and to avenge his Sixth Granduncle.
Liu Yi and Patriarch Seven were overjoyed. With Lu Li's words, there was hope to avenge the Liu Family. Liu Rufeng and the others died because of the Yu Family.
…
Xu Yaoyang didn't do anything after he went back to the God-down Island. Lu Li was not worried. If Xu Chen was not an idiot, he wouldn't make trouble for Lu Li. After all, on the surface, the Bai Family still valued Lu Li.
Lu Li went to the temporary imperial residence at the Earth Dragon Island to cultivate. He ate Cyan Phoenix Pellets like they were nothing. He cultivated day and night, trying to reach the peak of the Spirit Sea Realm and then try to reach the Soul Pond Realm.
He had already reached the later stage of the Spirit Sea Realm. He ate Cyan Phoenix Pellets like they were nothing. Maybe in two months at most, he could reach the peak of the Spirit Sea Realm.
The Liu Family had been busy lately. Patriarch Seven and Liu Yi could tell that the Liu Family could not do without Lu Li. Without Lu Li, the Blood Evil Island would be destroyed.
This was not a good thing for a family or a force. They could not repeat the mistakes of the Wu Ling County.
The Liu Family still needed to train more powerful warriors so that the Liu Family could survive in case Lu Li was gone.
Liu Yi was worried. Lu Li was rising too fast and so was his cultivation speed.
She was afraid that Lu Li would leave the Blood Evil Island soon and go to the Cyan Plains to look for Lu Ling. Therefore, she must plan ahead.
Hunchback Tian had made a breakthrough. The Blood Evil Island didn't need to store Xuan Crystals for Hunchback Tian. Therefore, Liu Yi and Hunchback Tian started to splurge on Xuan Crystals. They bought many top-level pellets and Mystical Grasses for the disciples of the Liu Family to break through to the next realm.
Needless to say, the Profound Martial Realm could be cultivated as long as there was a large amount of medicinal pellets. The Divine Sea Realm could be cultivated with a large amount of Spirit Herbs to help condense the Divine Sea. It was actually easy to break through.
Liu Yi and Patriarch Seven were going to train a batch of warriors at the peak of the Spirit Sea Realm with pellets first. They should be able to produce some warriors of the Soul Pond Realm.
With the improved blood from Lu Li's animal tooth pendant, the Blood Caterpillar Grasses, Netherworld Roots and Fire Fairy Lucid Ganoderma were easy to grow. The Liu Family could earn Xuan Crystals quickly, so naturally, the speed of training warriors would be fast.
The Yu Family really behaved themselves. They didn't do anything.
The Thousand-island Lake was peaceful. Xu Yaoyang didn't make any trouble, so naturally, nothing would happen at the Blood Evil Island.
Time flew by. Soon, a month had passed. A guest came to the Blood Evil Island which interrupted Lu Li's closed-door cultivation.
Chief Steward Bai was here. Lu Li asked Hunchback Tian to bring him back to the Dragon Elephant Mountain and then went down to the Blood Evil Fortress to meet Chief Steward Bai.
Chief Steward Bai was here to deliver a message, a message from Madam Yan. She asked Lu Li if he had made up his mind.
If he had made up his mind, he would go to the Bai Emperor Mountain.
Lu Li's heart was weighed down. Madam Yan was giving him an ultimatum.
She clearly knew that Lu Li was stalling. She didn't want to wait any longer. She wanted Lu Li to give her a definite answer.
Either join the Bai Family or reject the Bai Family!
At the Thousand-island Lake, rejecting the Bai Family usually didn't end well. There was only one person at the Thousand-island Lake who could live a comfortable life after offending the Bai Family, and that was Ming Yu.
Lu Li had some understanding of Madam Yan.
The nickname of the Black Widow was not just for show. If Lu Li was beneficial to her or the Bai Family, she would value Lu Li and give him whatever he wanted.
Otherwise, she would turn hostile immediately, just like after the battle at the Blood Evil Island …
This woman didn't care about favors or old friendships. All she cared about was the interests of the Family.
If Lu Li was of no use to her, Madam Yan wouldn't even look at him.
If Lu Li refused, he would completely offend Madam Yan. What would the consequences be?
Lu Li didn't know, but he had to keep stalling until Ye Cha and the others came out.
He asked Chief Steward Bai to tell Madam Yan that he was trying to reach the Soul Pond Realm and he could do it in three months at most. Three months later, he would go to the Bai Emperor Mountain to meet Madam Yan.
Chief Steward Bai's expression turned awful. He left the Blood Evil Island without saying anything.
Lu Li sighed. It seemed that the next three months would be tough. He could only hope that Madam Yan would be broad-minded and not deliberately seek revenge or pressure him.
Lu Li went back to cultivate. What he worried about soon happened —
Half a month later, Patriarch Seven and Liu Yi sent the Mystical Grasses to the Heaven Prison Chamber of Commerce. This time, they couldn't even see Chief Steward Bai.
The prices of all the Mystical Grasses were reduced by half. The Chief Steward who received them didn't give any explanation. He even hinted to Patriarch Seven that if the Blood Evil Island wanted to sell the Mystical Grasses to other places, they could do as they pleased!
According to the original agreement, the price was clearly unreasonable.
Even though the Chief Steward of the Bai Family said that the Blood Evil Island could sell the Mystical Grasses to other places, but … did Patriarch Seven and Liu Yi dare to do so?
They came back to ask for Lu Li's opinion. Lu Li had no other choice. He thought about it and asked Liu Yi and Patriarch Seven to continue to sell the Mystical Grasses to the Heaven Prison Chamber of Commerce.
It was okay to earn less. But if they offended the Bai Family completely, the consequences would be dire.
After cultivating for one and a half months, Lu Li would be able to reach the Soul Pond Realm in half a month at most.
Liu Yi and the others had already prepared the Mystical Grasses and pellets for him to reach the Soul Pond Realm. Otherwise, it would be hard to get them.
What Lu Li needed now was time. After two more months, Ye Cha and the others would come out. By then, Lu Li would have nothing to fear.
He wanted stability, but things did not go as he wished. Five days later, Xu Yaoyang came with a Fate Wheel Realm Patriarch of the Xu Family. They delivered the latest order of the Xu Family to the Blood Evil Island.
The Xu Family took back the original order of no tribute. The Blood Evil Island had to pay 100,000 Xuan Crystals per month. Otherwise, the God-down Island would not recognize the relationship of the Blood Evil Island as an appendage.
In other words — if the Blood Evil Island refused to pay the Xuan Crystals, the God-down Island would no longer protect the Blood Evil Island.
If other forces or bandits in the lake attacked the Blood Evil Island, the God-down Island would not do anything.
100,000 Xuan Crystals per month would be 1.2 million a year!
This was a heavy tribute. The other Demon Islands and the Black Fox Island could only pay 300,000 Xuan Crystals per year. The Xu Family must have gotten wind of it and started to add insult to injury.
"Here!"
When Lu Li got the news, he suppressed his anger and shouted.
Xuan Crystals was not the problem. What he needed was time. Now, he could not get into conflict with the Xu Family. Otherwise, all kinds of accidents could happen.
However …
What Lu Li didn't expect was that after Xu Yaoyang left with the 100,000 Xuan Crystals, he came back three days later and asked for one million Xuan Crystals.
He said that there were bandits running rampant nearby. The Xu Family was ready to send out troops to exterminate the bandits. They needed all the forces to pay for the military expenses. Otherwise, the God-down Island would not care if something happened.
More Xuan Crystals!