284: Chapter 284 Turning the Tables

"What exactly do you want to do?"

"What do we want to do? We are both exploration teams ranked in the top fifty, surely you know what our goal is, so why the act?"

Shadow Servant Yexing sneered, not immediately answering his question.

"You appeared here when you shouldn't have, and you brought these two strangers along... Furthermore, these two are only around Tier 4; logically speaking, it is impossible for them to be operating with an Esper of your level..."

"So... your Starlight Exploration Team must have run into some trouble, and these two are the key figures who can help you out of your predicament, right..."

Knowing the other side didn't dare to act rashly, Shadow Servant Yexing said with a smug look on his face.

"What exactly do you want..."

"They say spending money averts disaster, and we are all colleagues, so we won't make things difficult for you; just give us 100,000 Spirit Crystals and it will be fine." Yexing said indifferently, as if this price were a bargain for the other party.

"Hiss~" The onlookers gasped.

The ones clashing here were exploration teams from the top fifty on the leaderboard; small fries like them couldn't get involved in matters between two big shots.

But upon hearing Yexing mention 100,000 Spirit Crystals, everyone was inevitably stunned.

On one hand, they were amazed by the other party's overbearing nature; on the other hand, they realized that exploration teams of this level could really make money. Naming a ransom was also a skill; the fact that he dared to say this meant that the Starlight Exploration Team could truly afford that much money.

As for them... let alone 100,000, they didn't even know if they could scavenge 10,000 Spirit Crystals after working for a whole year...

"I don't have that much right now..."

Upon hearing Yexing's exorbitant demand, Martial General Hu Dachui's spiritual energy surged wildly at first, but after seeing the two people being surrounded over there, he quickly withdrew his spiritual energy.

Even though he felt incredibly stifled, he ultimately had no choice but to agree helplessly.

Seeing experts of this level resign themselves to bad luck and lower their heads, the people around them were filled with sighs.

But in the Land of Destruction, might makes right. There are no laws here, and the greed of human nature is revealed vividly...

"It's fine, I brought a contract; just have your exploration team put a handprint on it and it'll be done."

As he spoke, he saw Shadow Servant Yexing take out a gold-rimmed piece of paper from behind his back, with all the terms already written on it. Seeing his smooth operation, it was clear that the other party was already very experienced in doing this kind of thing.

"Wait!" A clear voice suddenly rang out.

Everyone turned to look, and their gazes quickly locked onto the White-haired girl who was one of the "hostages."

Although she was wearing a mask, making it impossible to see her face, they seemed to see confidence in victory within her calm, water-like golden eyes.

"No way, as a hostage, you should have the awareness of a hostage! You, a Tier 4 nobody, dare to speak at a moment like this? Do you not want your life anymore?"

All the onlookers thought in their hearts almost simultaneously.

"Look at your male companion who is also a hostage; he is very well-behaved. If you aren't afraid of death, isn't your companion afraid..."

Xing Yaoyan didn't know what everyone was thinking, nor did she need to know. She remained neither humble nor pushy, meeting Yexing's scrutinizing gaze, and spoke again:

"Do you know who I am?"

Upon hearing this, a burst of contemptuous laughter came from the crowd.

This woman must be a Young Miss sent by some Family to gain experience. Not only did she not know the rules in the Land of Destruction, but she was also so naive.

She wouldn't think that just by revealing her Family's status, the other party would be scared into not daring to act like in the novels, and would finally kowtow three times to let her go, right... Stop dreaming!

In the Land of Destruction, as long as the profit is big enough, they would dare to rob even if the Saintess of the Kingdom of Myriad Demons came!

"Hahaha! This little girl is too funny!"

"Exactly, she doesn't still not know her current situation, right? She actually dares to use her status to scare us. Have we, the Night Bat, been in the Land of Destruction for so long just to be scared?"

"Little girl, this big sister advises you not to talk nonsense, otherwise we will have to increase the price~"

The other members of the Night Bat Exploration Team burst into laughter.

"Alright... it seems you are still incorrigible, then there's no other way... Xiao, let's do it."

Upon hearing her words, everyone laughed even more happily.

Originally, they thought this White-haired girl was just too naive, thinking she could suppress people with her background, but it turned out she had a bad brain; she actually delusionally thought she could contend against their team of Tier 6s with two Tier 4s!

Although Xing Yaoyan had just said to do it, everyone remained standing in place, with no intention of making a move, as if they hadn't taken the two of them seriously at all.

Seeing this, the corners of Xing Yaoyan's mouth curled up slightly.

That's right, she wanted the other party to feel that they had victory in their grasp, she wanted them to think she was overestimating her capabilities, otherwise... how could her plan succeed.

A white light flashed, and a Spirit Crystal flew straight towards Yexing's true body at a terrifying speed.

"No way, has this girl already started sending us money?" Everyone saw this Spirit Crystal flying towards Yexing, but no one really cared.

There was no other spiritual energy fluctuation on this Spirit Crystal; apart from its speed being a bit fast, it had no attack power at all.

And Yexing just smiled and reached out his hand, intending to casually catch this Spirit Crystal.

But the next moment... the originally non-threatening Spirit Crystal suddenly disappeared, and in its place was a figure exuding terrifying Killing Intent all over.

One black and one white dagger streaked through the air in two arcs, stabbing fiercely towards Yexing's smiling face.

"As expected, it wasn't that simple; there's actually a space-type Superpower..."

Yexing's hand-reaching movement did not stop, and the next moment, a spiritual energy shield formed in front of him.

"Although the spiritual energy fluctuations on you did surprise me, having the might of a Tier 5, in the face of absolute strength, your attack has no effect at all..."

The smile on Yexing's face suddenly froze.

He discovered that complex golden patterns seemed to light up on the arm hidden under the boy's long sleeves, and then he actually passed through just like that—no, it should be said that he directly ignored his spiritual energy shield...

His own Tier 6 spiritual energy shield actually had no obstructive effect on this boy at all!

"Captain!" The other members couldn't sit still when they saw this.

They would never have thought that this boy would have such a Heaven-Defying method, actually being able to ignore the opponent's spiritual energy defense! This was simply unheard of!

Under normal circumstances, they wouldn't have been so flustered, after all, the tier gap was there. But now, most of their captain's strength was still on the Shadow Servant blocking the big man, and this attack from the boy really had a chance to kill him instantly!

"I underestimated you..." As expected of the captain of the Night Bat Exploration Team, Yexing did not completely lose his composure.

He quickly adjusted the operation of his spiritual energy, and almost instantly retrieved the spiritual energy inside the Shadow Servant over there.

"Now it's my turn to cou... where are the people?"

But at the very moment he was preparing to counterattack, he was surprised to find that the boy who had just been in front of him, exuding intense Killing Intent and about to fight him to the death, had suddenly disappeared, and along with him, the White-haired girl from over there had also vanished.

"Captain, they are over at your Shadow Servant!" One member was the first to spot the two who had just disappeared.

Yexing looked closely and saw that the two had arrived at the side of his Shadow Servant at some point, and the White-haired girl was reaching out to press her hand on the top of the Shadow Servant Yexing's head. She was currently turning her head to look at him, her face full of surprise, her eyes squinting into crescent shapes.

"By the way, your senses are shared, right..."

At this moment, looking at the other party's malicious smile, Yexing's heart inexplicably skipped a beat.