"I'm talking nonsense?" Lu Qingshan raised a hand and pointed at his face, sparing him not a shred of dignity.
"Then explain what happened to that face."
"Don't tell me you fell."
Chun Xiaobai instinctively touched his face.
The moment his fingers brushed his cheek, a piercing pain shot through him, drawing a yelp.
But a moment later, he straightened his back and declared with perfect confidence:
"That's right! I, the Great King, fell!"
"..."
The room fell silent.
Fang Yuan, Bai Yutang, and Bai Jin'er all stared blankly at him.
He had told that barefaced lie without so much as blinking.
Who fell exclusively on their face?
Chun Xiaobai had no choice.
He couldn't very well say that a bunch of inhuman things had surrounded him and beaten him up, could he?
That would be even more humiliating!
"Enough, enough. Don't worry about appearances." Chun Xiaobai waved a hand, forcibly changing the subject.
"You know perfectly well what I, the Great King, am capable of."
As he spoke, he pulled a fistful of Storage Rings from his robes and slapped them onto the table.
Smack!
"Ten billion spirit stones! Every last one secured!"
"Tch, only ten billion." Lu Qingshan curled his lip in disdain.
His tone stunned Chun Xiaobai for a moment before his eyes widened. "Only ten billion?"
"You old bastard, it's easy to talk when you're not the one breaking your back! Ten billion still isn't enough for you?"
Seeing things taking a bad turn, Bai Jin'er hurriedly tugged Chun Xiaobai's sleeve.
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty."
"Wang Luan, the sect master of the Ten Thousand Flowers Sect, came by earlier and gave us twenty billion spirit stones outright. He said it was money for our tea."
"What?!" Chun Xiaobai whipped his head around and stared at Bai