Mudela's face turned ashen with deathly gloom. The round stool beneath him exploded with a crack, shattering into powder. He slowly rose to his feet and casually swept the pieces across the chessboard into a mess. He said coldly, "I'm not in the mood to play chess with you today. You can keep me trapped here, but Mu Wei and the people she brought must be allowed to leave."
Sha Hegui fell silent for a while. He glanced at Mudela, then slowly nodded. "Let them go? Fine. In exchange, you must condense another divine power crystal for me. Well? That condition isn't excessive, is it?"
Mu Wei flew into a rage and roared, "A divine power crystal? Old bastard, you really are greedy!"
Sha Hegui looked at Mu Wei with a beaming smile. "You needn't accept my terms. Then you can all stay here for the rest of your lives! Mm, actually, the environment here is quite nice. Every so often, I can even bring in a group of beauties from outside to keep you company. Hahaha! You can stay here, pair up, and have babies. That wouldn't be bad either!"
Standing some distance away, Lin Qi's lips twitched as he looked toward the beautiful young girls and glamorous women in the manor to the right. No wonder he had heard that passing merchant caravans near Bitter Spring Post occasionally had people go missing, most of them lovely young girls! So Sha Hegui had abducted all these girls and brought them here to serve as concubines?
Lin Qi could not help silently cursing Sha Hegui. What an old lecher! Look at Mudela's lonely little stone house, look at how he lived alone and kept himself clean—how could Sha Hegui do something like forcibly abducting people?
What also puzzled Lin Qi