“Fine. I admit defeat in today’s matter!”
After hearing Xiao Fan’s words, Lin Shiqi’s expression shifted repeatedly before he finally chose to submit in humiliation.
After speaking, Lin Shiqi stepped forward to take the undergarment and the Recording Stone floating in Xiao Fan’s hand.
Xiao Fan’s eyes turned cold. “You think you can just come over and take them like that?”
Lin Shiqi’s expression stiffened, and an ominous feeling rose in his heart. He could only grit his teeth and ask, “Xiao Fan, you have already planted a mark on me. You even killed one of my consorts and forced me to take the blame for your murder. What else do you want from this prince?”
Xiao Fan sneered, his expression unchanged. “Hand over all your assets. And the three of them must do the same.”
Lin Shiqi and Old Man Tengmu’s expressions changed drastically.
Lin Shiqi roared in fury, “Xiao Fan, don’t go too far!! I am the Seventh Prince of the Great Qian Empire. There are several King Martial Realm experts under my command. We are people with dignity and backbone. We are only submitting to you out of necessity. That is already—”
Slap!!
Before he could finish, Xiao Fan struck him across the face.
Lin Shiqi’s mind buzzed violently as unprecedented humiliation and rage surged within him.
“Xiao Fan!!”
The next moment, Lin Shiqi erupted with his cultivation, looking as though he intended to attack.
Before he could charge forward, Xiao Fan kicked him squarely, sending him flying. At the same time, he activated the blazing talisman blood mark.
A transparent, eerie blood-red flame surfaced on Lin Shiqi’s body. The unbearable pain made him feel as if he had fallen into an endless sea of fire. He howled and rolled on the ground in agony.
Ling Xing and Ling Yue stared in shock.
This was nothing like the Xiao Fan they had seen yesterday. It felt as though he were a completely different person.
They even wondered whether the Prince Consort had been possessed by some demonic entity.
In contrast, Lin Qingyan and Yan Lin watched with admiration.
A strong person, when facing enemies, must be ruthless.
Xiao Fan did not notice the change in their gazes. After speaking coldly to Lin Shiqi, he turned to Old Man Tengmu and the two Ghost Profound Elders.
“You three. Do you want to hand over your storage rings, or do you want your arms and legs broken?”
Their faces turned pale, and their eyes instinctively looked toward the Medusa Queen.
They wanted to see this Grandmaster Martial Realm expert’s stance.
But when they looked over, they saw that she paid no attention to them at all, merely admiring and playing with her slender fingers.
It was obvious.
She tacitly approved of Xiao Fan’s actions.
“It seems you value your assets more than your limbs,” Xiao Fan said coldly. “In that case, please—”
“Wait, we’ll give them!!”
Hearing that Xiao Fan was about to have Yan Lin sever their limbs, Old Man Tengmu and the two Ghost Profound Elders trembled and hurriedly removed their storage rings, handing them over.
Xiao Fan felt satisfied.
As a discarded son of the Southern Suppression King’s Manor, he had no real resources. Now that Lin Shiqi and these three King Martial Realm experts had delivered themselves to him, his wealth could finally grow substantial.
Otherwise, he would not even have the capital to take Yan Lin shopping for clothes and shoes.
“Brother-in-law, have you thought it through? Do you want to obediently be a dog, or keep suffering?” Xiao Fan asked as he squatted before Lin Shiqi after collecting the others’ storage rings.
Lin Shiqi, writhing in pain, stared at Xiao Fan in terror. “I’ll give it to you. Stop it…”
He endured the agony, removed his storage ring, and handed it over with trembling hands.
“If you had done that earlier, this would have been over already…”
Xiao Fan took the ring and snapped his fingers.
The burning blood-red flames instantly extinguished. Lin Shiqi collapsed to the ground like a lifeless heap, tears of humiliation sliding from his eyes.
As a prince, he had never been humiliated like this.
Xiao Fan ignored him. After taking the ring, he examined its contents.
Inside were piles of low-grade spirit crystals stacked like mountains, along with numerous heavenly treasures and profound weapons and martial techniques. This chapter was copied from novelping(.)com without permission.
These resources were enough for him to indulge freely and rapidly improve his cultivation.
“Alright, stop lying there like a dead dog and embarrassing yourself. It makes it look like this heir is abusing his dear brother-in-law,” Xiao Fan said lightly. “Next, you should make good use of this recording and that undergarment. Vent the humiliation and anger you suffered here today on the Eighth Prince or the Southern Peace Marquis.”
He retrieved another Recording Stone from Lin Shiqi’s ring, copied the footage of Mu Ziyan’s affair with the Eighth Prince onto it, then tossed the copy and the undergarment back to Lin Shiqi.
Lin Shiqi’s face twitched, but he said nothing. He picked up the Recording Stone and the undergarment and staggered out of Tranquil Radiance Prefecture.
Old Man Tengmu and the two Ghost Profound Elders followed resentfully, carrying Mu Ziyan’s corpse.
“Hiss… This is a fourth-grade top-tier spiritual medicine, Earth Yellow Heavenly Yang Root? It can temper the physique and True Essence of Heaven Martial Realm cultivators. And this is a fifth-grade pill, Ice Frost Snow Soul Pill? It can enhance the cultivation of King Martial Realm ice-attribute cultivators…”
“And just the low-grade spirit crystals from these few add up to at least over one hundred thousand pieces. Even some Emperor Martial Realm experts might not possess so many!”
After inspecting the others’ storage rings, even Xiao Fan could not help but take a deep breath.
As for how he recognized these treasures, it was simple.
During his years at the Southern Suppression King’s Manor, unable to cultivate and unwilling to remain a waste, he had tried to study alchemy, hoping to find a pill that could change his constitution.
Though he never found a solution, his extensive reading of ancient texts had made him extremely familiar with most common heavenly treasures and pill properties.
Even in his excitement, he did not forget Yan Lin.
He immediately walked to her with the storage rings in hand.
“Yan Lin, thanks to you for suppressing the situation this time. Otherwise, I wouldn’t have been able to handle those guys so easily. Take whatever you need from these rings. No need to be polite.”
He placed the rings before her without the slightest trace of reluctance.
It was as if even if the Medusa Queen took them all for herself, he would not frown.
After all, without her, he would not have obtained these resources and would have been humiliated today.
Letting her choose first was only proper.
What was this called?
Knowing the times makes a hero!
A successful man who dares to be arrogant despite lacking strength must have a powerful woman like a queen behind him.
If he showed off and then failed to flatter her afterward, it would be difficult to continue living off this soft support in the future.