"But first, you have to give me Innate Spiritual Treasures or innate spiritual roots of equivalent value. Otherwise, go back where you came from."
"Did you really think a few empty words would make me work for you for nothing and harm my little sister Houtu?"
"I'm not some fool you can hoodwink so easily."
"If you can't produce something that satisfies me this time, heh, believe it or not, one shout from me will bring all my brothers running."
"When that happens, whether you can even leave Mount Buzhou alive will be another question."
"Think it through carefully."
With that, Zhurong's manifested Ancestral Witch True Form folded his arms across his chest and stared defiantly at Yuanshi's Evil Corpse Incarnation.
At that moment, he looked every inch a gangland boss.
After hearing Zhurong's words, Yuanshi's Evil Corpse Incarnation went completely numb!
Then came fury-endless fury!
He had never imagined that someone would actually extort him!
And that someone was Ancestral Witch Zhurong, whom he had always looked down upon!
As Yuanshi's Evil Corpse Incarnation, when had he ever suffered such treatment since the Primordial Heavenly Venerable severed him into existence?
If his Saint Realm Dao Heart had not preserved his final shred of reason...
He suspected he might have unleashed a massacre and slaughtered the entire Zhurong Tribe!
But.
That damned shred of reason forced him to consider what benefits he should give Zhurong!
The feeling nearly drove Yuanshi's Evil Corpse Incarnation mad.
He even began to suspect that Ancestral Witch Zhurong was the real Evil Corpse.
The Primordial Heavenly Venerable's Evil Corpse Incarnation was now so enraged by Zhurong's sudden demands that he nearly exploded on the spot.
But.
To carry out his Original Self's scheme against the Witch Clan, he needed an Ancestral Witch to cooperate.
Otherwise,