1373 The Pre-arranged Time
“That’s your problem,” Li Lanfeng replied without any sympathy in his voice.
“Okay, I will prepare the supplies, but I need to return to the Soul Society,” said Xia Qingyi as he frowned. He must receive the Soul Emperor’s approval first before moving this much supplies. If he didn’t have a good reason, he probably wouldn’t be able to convince the Soul Emperor. Xia Qingyi was worried because this wasn’t an easy issue to go about resolving.
“Just say you have made contact with Lord Gen of the 13 Lords. Lord Gen’s cooperation will depend on these supplies. That’s the condition he gave. If the supplies are successfully delivered, Lord Gen will agree with the Soul Society entering into the other areas to develop their influence.” Li Lanfeng spoke out the reason Ling Lan had prepared for Xia Qingyi.
Xia Qingyi’s eyes brightened. “That’s a good reason.” This was actually an empty promise. If anyone else dared to negotiate like this, the Soul Emperor would definitely look the other way and not even roll his eyes. However, when it came to the Lawless Lands… It had been the Soul Emperor’s biggest regret. This promise was like sweet poison, where he clearly knew it was bad but still would rather die trying.
“Good luck.” Li Lanfeng waved towards Xia Qingyi to show that their conversation was over and he could now leave.
Xia Qingyi was quite annoyed. This was his territory. Unfortunately, this person in front of him didn’t have the thought of behaving like a guest one bit. Doing things like he was the boss of this place, and doing it proudly too without any bit of shame.
There weren’t any stops in between as Xia Qingyi rushed back to the Soul Society. He immediately reported this situation to the Soul Emperor. Li Lanfeng could only wait patiently for Xia Qingyi’s good news.
Time pa.s.sed by quickly and soon, it reached the deadline Ling Lan had promised with the 13 Lords.
Ling Lan was holding Little White while sitting on the icy throne in the main hall of the rainbow palace. She was calm and unnerved. It was as though she didn’t what this day would entail.
Ji Ming, who stood below, couldn’t hold the worry in his mind. He couldn’t help but raise his head and look at Ling Lan.
Ling Lan didn’t react to him as she just continued rubbing Little White’s soft hairs rhythmically and calmly.
Seeing that, Ji Ming didn’t know why, but he calmed down. It was as though everything was going to be okay.
Yu Shangfei felt it was odd. When did Ji Ming care so much for Lord Gen? When he knew Ji Ming’s plan had failed and almost died along with the three faction lords, Yu Shangfei had been hiding outside, not daring to return. He was afraid that Lord Gen would know that he was working with Ji Ming on that plan. Although Yu Shangfei knew for certain that Lord Gen knew about it, he still chose to hide himself. As long as Lord Gen didn’t ask for him, he would just hide away and pretend to not know anything.
Right at that moment, the main hall suddenly had strong ripples of domain concept energies.
Ling Lan raised her head and flicked her right sleeve. Ji Ming and Yu Shangfei suddenly blacked out and in the next second, they appeared behind Lord Gen with a thin layer of domain concept energy wrapped around them.
At the center of the main hall, five people appeared out of nowhere. It was indeed the five lords who had made the promise with Lord Gen two months ago.
Lord Holy spoke up, “Time is up. Can you tell me where the promised supplies are?”
Hearing him, Ling Lan just continued to calmly rub Little White’s soft hairs. She indifferently replied, “We haven’t reached the final hour yet. Lord Holy, don’t be so impatient.”
Killing intent rushed through Lord Holy’s eyes. At that moment, Lord Zhen who was standing on the other side, smiled. “Our little friend is right. It hasn’t reached the promised time yet. How about we have a conversation with him and drink some tea. We can wait for our little friend’s good news together. You guys should know that Lords Qian and Lord Kun are very interested in the items our little friend has promised. We can’t disappoint them, can we?”
Ling Lan raised her head and half-smiled at Lord Zhen. She looked confident as ever as she said, “If you five lords want to do that, then as the master of this place, I of course would happily welcome all of you.”
Afterwards she spoke to Ji Ming, “Ji Ming, call someone to get us some tea.”
“Yes, Lord Gen,” Ji Ming accepted the order respectfully and left the main hall in the blink of an eye.
Soon, Ji Ming brought tea with him. With six imperial realm masters in the main hall, the standard servants definitely didn’t have the capabilities or guts to walk in. Even Ji Ming and Yu Shangfei felt suffocated under the force of presence of all six imperial realm masters. Luckily, Ling Lan wrapped her concept energy around them, saving them from the embarra.s.sment it would be if they kneeled down under the pressure.
The six of them silently drank their tea. Ling Lan was silent the entire time, while the other five lords didn’t want to speak with Ling Lan either. Perhaps they were waiting for the promised time to arrive before deciding whether they should kill Ling Lan or not.
Finally, time still merciless reached the last second of the promised time.
Lord Holy laughed coldly, “It’s already the first day of the third month. We still don’t see supplies right now… According to the rules, you must pay for your crimes of killing the original Lord Gen.”
Ling Lan smirked. “So… you want to fight?”
Ji Ming and Yu Shangfei jumped away from Ling Lan instinctively. Their movements made it seem as though they were not a.s.sociated with Ling Lan.
Lord Holy looked towards them with a satisfied gaze. “Very good. As for the mistakes you two have made, we will deal with that at our own discretion.”
Yu Shangfei had a look of joy on his face, while Ji Ming on the other hand had his head down respectfully. No one saw the complicated look in his eyes.
“Haha, look, even though you were Lord Gen for two months, you’re still just by yourself with no one to depend on.” Lord Holy sneered.
“Are you sure?” Ling Lan smiled as she asked.
At that moment, Ling Lan had already spoken with Little White. If the five lords attacked all at once, they would push with their spiritual power together, making them temporarily lose their focus to make it easier for Ling Lan to escape.
Ling Lan wasn’t so confident to believe that she could fight against five imperial realm masters at once. If she couldn’t escape in that time window, she would definitely be dead.
Seeing Ling Lan still have an expression of indifference even after reaching this point, Lord Holy’s killing intent got even stronger. As a lord who could control the life and death of the citizens of Lawless Lands, he hated people like Ling Lan, who he couldn’t control, appearing in the Lawless Lands. From the beginning, his suggestion was to kill Ling Lan. Unfortunately, the other lords were thoroughly convinced by the supplies Ling Lan had promised and the amazing future she had painted in front of them. That was why they gave her two months of time. In the past two months, he had already endured to his limit.
“Kill!” Lord Holy shouted angrily.
The five lords all activated their domains simultaneously and covered Ling Lan from all directions.
Seeing this, Ling Lan pinched Little White’s round body. Right as the two spiritual powers were about to explode…
Ling Lan sensed something. She pinched Little White again and forcefully pushed back the rush of spiritual power back into Little White’s throat.
“Ugh!” Little White put all its effort in swallowing the terrifying spiritual power shockwave back into its stomach.
Luckily, its stomach was a multi-layered s.p.a.ce that could store spiritual power. Otherwise, just the backlash from the shockwave was enough to cause it to sleep for a few days.