Chapter 4290 — Greed Outed
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At this, Chang Daoping was utterly at a loss. From the other party's utter lack of scruple, he could tell that this was no bluff—and besides, that beast attendant had specifically warned him earlier to leave by way of the teleportation array.
But the man had never once said that robbers would block the road on the way out!
If these two were merely of average strength, that would have been one thing, but before him stood two Nascent Soul stage spirit beasts in human form. There was no need even to think—there was simply no beating them!
"You..." Chang Daoping seethed with rage, yet in the end he did not dare turn on them to their faces. Helpless beyond measure, he had no choice but to toss out the pack from his back, and at the same time drew out the Star Ink Milk he carried on his person.
No one on earth would willingly hand over a treasure like Star Ink Milk—but what else could he do? Was he really going to die here over it?
Chang Daoping had not risen to his present level by valuing wealth above his life. Once he had thought it through, he was quite straightforward about it: since beating them was impossible anyway, there was no point in struggling and resisting—it would be worse than useless, and might well cost him his life for nothing. Why bother?
The azure-robed man showed not the slightest surprise. They had seen plenty of capable humans, each one domineering and arrogant in ordinary times, strutting about full of swagger—but when the moment of truth arrived, such people invariably knew which way the wind blew better than anyone, and clung to their lives more dearly than anyone.
One of them took Chang Daoping's pack, riffled through it a few times, roughly appraised its worth, and then tossed it carelessly aside. But when he picked up the little spirit-jade vial holding the Star Ink Milk, he suddenly gave a startled cry of doubt.
"Heh heh, you're a rather interesting fellow—going to all the trouble of playing such a little trick just to fool these underlings of yours. Tsk, tsk..." The azure-robed man curled his lip in mockery. Then, as if deliberately so that everyone could see clearly, he fetched a box also made of spirit jade, though far larger than the group's little vials.
The crowd looked on in bewilderment—until they watched the azure-robed man pour all the Star Ink Milk into the box, whereupon every face turned utterly strange, and the looks they bent on Chang Daoping now carried something distinctly complicated and hard to name.
In terms of capacity alone, the spirit-jade box the azure-robed man produced was at least ten times larger than Chang Daoping's little vial. Yet what unfolded before their eyes was this: the Star Ink Milk poured from that small vial filled the ten-times-larger spirit-jade box to the very brim!
Had they not seen it with their own eyes, no one would have believed it if told. Even now, the crowd could scarcely trust their eyes—how could this be?
Had everyone present been ordinary folk, being duped and deceived like this would have been one thing. But they were all accomplished Golden Core experts, and to be fooled like a pack of idiots—without a single doubt stirring throughout the whole process—that was a bit much to swallow.
One could only say that, though it was but a petty trick not fit for polite company, Chang Daoping had pulled it off flawlessly.
"Heh heh. At first glance there's nothing remarkable about it—just a little spirit-jade vial anyone could buy anywhere. Who'd have thought its construction was so ingenious, with a whole world hidden inside? If I'm not mistaken, there are at least several formations layered onto it—a blinding formation and a pocket-universe formation among them, surely—so that it could hold this much Star Ink Milk while still deceiving the eye. Tsk, tsk, you certainly laid out no small sum for this." The azure-robed man wore a look of contempt even as he deliberately spelled out the hidden mechanism for all to hear.