"Aah-!"
At those words, Zhan Ying unleashed a surge of tremendous power. The puppet behind him blazed with light, seemingly intent on breaking through the formation by self-destructing!
But Shi Miaozhen leaped down and planted a foot on the puppet's head, instantly snuffing out its light.
The senior sister of the Azurefall Profound Gate narrowed her eyes at him. "What's your name?"
"Nothing, I..." Zhan Ying said meekly. "I got a little excited seeing you all from the Azurefall Profound Gate."
"Isn't this completely different from what we agreed on?"
The members of the Water Ghost Alliance were all rather bewildered. They looked at Zhan Ying. Hadn't they agreed to come here to rob people?
How had they become the victims?
With so many of them here, even powerful disciples of the Azurefall Profound Gate couldn't have killed them all easily. Only by willingly walking into a formation the others had prepared, as they had just done, could they all be caught in one net.
Ten strings of Demon-Suppressing Coins apiece to buy their freedom. Easy for them to say.
It was only the afternoon of the second day. All told, they had only had the first day to earn money properly, and the highest reward for an exclusive mission was just five strings-for an entire team.
How could every one of them possibly produce ten strings to buy their freedom now?
Zhan Ying looked at the people before him and said gravely, "Since you from the Azurefall Profound Gate are here, we admit defeat. But isn't ten strings of Demon-Suppressing Coins per person too much? Even a whole team couldn't scrape together that much money."
"Then we'll have to trouble you to spend a few days picking Flowing Cloud Fruit here," Yue Wen said. "Stay here and put in