71: Chapter 71 Huge Compensation, Both Facing Adversity
"heaven-escaping shuttle?"
A look of confusion appeared on Zhou Bai's face; he was not familiar with the heaven-escaping shuttle that Zhou Lingyun mentioned.
"Mm, it's a top-tier psychic weapon, composed of many diamond-shaped flying knives, with multiple forms. It's a multifunctional weapon integrating flight, attack, and defense..."
Zhou Lingyun continued slowly, giving a general description of the heaven-escaping shuttle.
"There's actually such a weapon!"
Hearing Zhou Lingyun's words, Zhou Bai's eyes lit up.
In that case, it really suited Zhou Bai. With his S-grade talent for psychic force, he could fully utilize a psychic weapon.
Moreover, it was a weapon combining attack, defense, and flight; it was simply too cool.
If he had had the heaven-escaping shuttle in today's situation, even if he couldn't win a fight, he could have just run away.
At that moment, the sound of a door being pushed open came.
A middle-aged man with an imposing aura, wearing gray clothes, entered the room.
"Sav... Seventh Uncle, save me..."
Seeing the appearance of the gray-clad middle-aged man, Ling Xiao, who was pinned to the wall, spoke in a weak, hoarse voice as if grasping at a lifeline.
"Captain Zhou, I wonder what mistake my useless nephew has made for Captain Zhou to resort to such harsh measures!"
Ling Fuyuan looked at the scene in the room and then said with a frown.
"Your good nephew sent people to assassinate my younger brother. Not killing him directly is already showing face to your Ling Family!"
Zhou Lingyun's expression turned cold and aloof as she spoke indifferently.
"Captain Zhou, in all matters, evidence must be presented. Young Master Ling is the runner-up of the Dawn War, with boundless prospects..."
A member of the Ling Family beside Ling Fuyuan said solemnly.
"Evidence? Do you really want me to produce the evidence?"
Zhou Lingyun slowly raised her head, looking somewhat playfully at the Ling Family member beside Ling Fuyuan.
Ling Fuyuan looked at Ling Xiao on the wall, remained silent for a good while, then adopted an extremely low, almost humble posture and said,
"Captain Zhou, I apologize to you for my nephew's ignorance. I will provide appropriate compensation. I beg Captain Zhou to be magnanimous and spare my nephew!"
Ling Xiao, pinned to the wall, was stunned to see his uncle bowing his head like this.
"Give the Battle Heaven Sacred Art to my brother, 100,000 blood crystals, and one cultivation slot at Heavenly Thunder Valley!"
Zhou Lingyun then stated calmly.
"Are you crazy? That's too much!!"
Hearing Zhou Lingyun's words, Ling Fuyuan's face became extremely ugly as he said in a deep voice.
The Battle Heaven Sacred Art was an S-grade combat sacred art established by their Ling Family's Ling Tian Martial Saint, providing an exceptionally terrifying boost to combat power.
Although it was S-grade, its power was in no way inferior to SS-grade martial techniques or secret arts.
Its value was also astonishingly high; even within the Martial Artists Alliance, one needed to make immense contributions to obtain it.
blood crystals were crystals containing pure blood and qi energy, used to enhance blood and qi power, and were extremely valuable.
blood crystals were basically monopolized by many top-tier powers and did not flow into the open market.
One Blood Crystal was worth ten million star coins, and even that price was hard to find, as few were willing to sell.
100,000 blood crystals were comparable to trillions of star coins, or even more.
As for the cultivation slot at Heavenly Thunder Valley, that went without saying. It was a top-tier cultivation spiritual land, profound and extraordinary, something that simply couldn't be bought with star coins.
"My brother is also the champion of the Dawn War. Do you really think this is too much?"
Zhou Lingyun said calmly, her tone extremely placid.
Hearing Zhou Lingyun's words, Ling Fuyuan's face fluctuated between dark and light.
He looked at Ling Xiao on the wall, then at Zhou Lingyun and Zhou Bai beside her.
"Captain Zhou, the amount of these items is too large. I must request instructions from our family head!"
After a long while, Ling Fuyuan then said to Zhou Lingyun.
"Go ahead."
Zhou Lingyun said indifferently.
Then, Ling Fuyuan left the room and contacted the Ling Family head outside.
Inside the room, Qin Hao was dumbfounded seeing Zhou Lingyun making such outrageous demands.
Zhou Bai didn't lose a single hair, Ling Xiao was stabbed up like this, and they still had to compensate so much...
When the time comes, I...
Damn it, I must stay away from that idiot Ling Xiao in the future!
Qin Hao cursed inwardly.
"Captain Zhou, our family head has agreed. The items will be delivered to you within three days!"
Three minutes later, Ling Fuyuan returned to the room and said to Zhou Lingyun.
"Mm, then you can take him away."
Zhou Lingyun nodded, then retrieved her Violet Light Spear.
Ling Fuyuan and the others immediately dragged the severely injured Ling Xiao out of the room.
Before leaving, Ling Xiao shot a venomous glare at Zhou Bai.
Not long after, the Qin Family also sent a martial arts expert, Qin Jinhu, to negotiate with Zhou Lingyun.
"Your Qin Family's Qin Hao conspired with Ling Xiao to harm my brother. As compensation, your Qin Family's S-grade psychic martial technique, Heavenly Saint Soul Extinguishing Seal, 100,000 blood crystals, and one cultivation slot at Danghun Mountain will suffice!"
Zhou Lingyun didn't waste words either, directly demanding her compensation.
"Third Brother, this matter was Ling Xiao's doing..."
Upon hearing this, Qin Hao hurriedly said.
"Oh, so he's an accomplice. Then I'll halve the blood crystals for you!"
Before Qin Hao could finish, Zhou Lingyun interrupted him and said calmly.
Hearing Zhou Lingyun's words, Qin Hao was dumbfounded. What accomplice? I was just invited to this room; I knew nothing about it before...
He wanted to say more, but feeling Zhou Lingyun's deep, icy gaze, he swallowed his words.
"No problem. Since it was a member of our Qin Family who made a mistake, it's only natural we compensate. Those items will be delivered to Captain Zhou tomorrow!"
Qin Jinhu didn't say much else. After pondering for a moment, he agreed to Zhou Lingyun's demands.
Hearing this, Zhou Lingyun retrieved the violet light chains restraining Qin Hao.
"Student Zhou Bai, I apologize for the trouble our Qin Hao has caused you. If you have the chance to study together in the future, I hope Student Zhou Bai won't hold it against him and will look out for our Qin Hao."
Just as Zhou Lingyun was about to leave with Zhou Bai and Zhao Shiyu, Qin Jinhu spoke to Zhou Bai.
Zhou Bai also hadn't expected Qin Jinhu to suddenly address him.
However, seeing Qin Jinhu adopt such a humble posture,
and knowing that before coming, they had already learned from the assassins who tried to kill Zhou Bai and others that this was entirely Ling Xiao's arrangement alone.
Qin Hao had suffered a completely unjust disaster.
Thinking of this, Zhou Bai nodded and then said, "No problem. If the opportunity arises, certainly!"
Receiving Zhou Bai's response, Qin Jinhu also smiled, then watched as the few of them boarded an airship and left the room.
"I'm sorry, Zhou Bai. After all, this is within Xia Country's borders. Even with evidence in hand, we couldn't kill that Ling Xiao."
On the airship, Zhou Lingyun said apologetically to Zhou Bai.
"It's fine, Sis. I know. This outcome is already very good!" Zhou Bai smiled slightly and said,
"Moreover, with these resources, after we improve our strength, it will be more useful than killing Ling Xiao!"
"It's good that you think this way!"
Seeing Zhou Bai say this, a look of appreciation flashed in Zhou Lingyun's eyes.
"Yeah, Sister Lingyun, you're amazing! You actually got so much compensation from the Qin and Ling families!"
Zhao Shiyu on the side also said excitedly.
The Qin and Ling families were top-tier great families, yet they still had to bow their heads to Zhou Lingyun.
In Zhao Shiyu's view, this was simply too cool.