"Heh-heh, our Empress has two proposals for you. First, contribute a hundred Flesh Immortals a day so we can recover our energy. We'll continue escorting you, and we'll also send other Demon Cultivators to protect your Flesh Immortals. We'll do everything we can to keep other forces from abducting them. Think about it—this is already a very good deal. If a large troop of Demon Cultivators comes over, you might lose more than a hundred—perhaps three hundred or five hundred. Compared to handing me a hundred Flesh Immortals every day, isn't this well worth it?" Suo Tong said with a smug smile, feeling that his terms were generous.
I ground my teeth and shouted, "Get lost. If you bring up conditions like that again, I'll butcher your Wolf Emperor. For every cultivator you lose, I'll pull out one of your Wolf Emperor's teeth!"
Suo Tong's eyes turned blood-red, and his teeth clattered furiously. "You can't put everything on us!"
"Heh heh, if not you, then who? You agreed to the terms. Once you've accepted the bitter fruit, you have to swallow it to the end." I sneered. How could I possibly agree to hand people over for them to eat?
The many cultivators all approved of what I said. After all, cannibalism was forbidden in every dynasty; anyone who did such a thing would be reviled for the rest of their life.
"Fine. Since that's the case, let's go with the second proposal. We've already escorted you out of our own territory. From here on, things are beyond our control. We won't be seeing you any farther. Please release the Wolf Emperor, and let's just pretend we never knew each other and had no dealings at all." Suo Tong was still unwilling to give up, and finished explaining the second