"Senior Hua, just say it plainly." I did not release Xuanyuan Hui, but I could not refuse Hua Meiling's face either. Xuanyuan Yu also cupped his hands toward Hua Meiling and said, "Please enlighten us, Fellow Daoist Hua."
Hua Meiling drew a deep breath and said, "This whole matter began because of two young girls. Even if things go all the way to the end, I'm afraid they will both have trouble escaping their lineage's punishment. After all, losing the competition is one offense, and placing the future head of the family in danger is another. So, as a merchant, I've thought it over and decided that it would be better to handle this as a transaction, letting both sides turn a major issue into a minor one and a minor one into nothing. How about it?"
"Oh? What sort of transaction?" Xuanyuan Yu asked hurriedly.
Hua Meiling immediately said, "The Xia Immortal is angry only because Young Master Xuanyuan wanted to kill the two girls, and his sympathy for their beauty stirred his heroic spirit. Why don't we all take a step back and have the Xia Immortal pay a huge sum to buy these two young girls? Wouldn't that be much better than killing them in the end? At least the Xuanyuan family wouldn't suffer a loss, right?"
"This... But our Xuanyuan family..." Xuanyuan Yu was somewhat unwilling. After all, the Xuanyuan family was rich and powerful and had no lack of money. Making them sell people was practically a great insult. Only merchants like Hua Meiling would trade absolutely anything.
However, just because he disliked the idea did not mean the Fu and Geng families did not seriously consider it. These were their own clan's children, whom they had watched grow up from childhood. If they really