Chapter 504: Time to Get Down to Business

"What did you say? Paying respects?"

"You want to give Qin Tian a gift?" Upon hearing Yang Yuanqing's words, Bai Sha was incensed.

He suddenly stood up, his whiskers and eyebrows bristling as he shouted loudly, "Qin Tian killed my younger brother, I cannot live under the same sky as him!"

"I will tear his corpse into ten thousand pieces to quell my hatred!"

"Yet you want me to go give him a gift, what exactly is your intention?!"

The iron chains rattled, the sound echoing in the enclosed room, making Yang Yuanqing's eardrums tingle.

His face paled greatly as he hurriedly retreated.

"Listen to me!"

"Bai Sha, don't get agitated first!"

"If I'm doing this, I also have my difficulties!"

Seeing that Bai Sha had calmed down, Yang Yuanqing heaved a sigh of relief, then explained the reasoning in a low voice.

To put it simply, it was still to win over Qin Tian through An Guo and the Zhao family of Flitz to gain their votes.

This was too important. It concerned whether he could smoothly become the Alliance Chief.

"Rest assured, as long as I become the Alliance Chief, I will definitely hand over Qin Tian for you to deal with!"

"At that time, whatever way you want to torment him will be fine!"

"Bai Sha, you also know how important this position of Alliance Chief is to me. This time, I am determined to succeed."

"Furthermore, with me becoming the Alliance Chief, won't you gain face following me?"

Bai Sha gritted his teeth and said, "Since Qin Tian is so important, I can let him live a few more days."

"It's just, why must I be the one to give him the gift? Are you deliberately provoking me?"

Yang Yuanqing hurriedly said, "Qin Tian is arrogant and aloof. If I send someone else, I'm afraid he might reject them."

"You're different."

"When you go tomorrow, even though don't kill him for now, you can show off a bit and awe him."

"That way, Qin Tian will know not to offend us and obediently accept the gift and listen to us."

"This is called benevolence and might combined, do you understand what I mean?"

Bai Sha was silent for a moment before replying coldly, "Fine."

"Since it's so, I'll go pay respects to this scumbag tomorrow. However, I have one condition-"

"When you become Alliance Chief, I need something from a sunken ship in the East Sea. Currently, I only know the approximate location of the sunken ship."

"At that time, send people to search and salvage it."

Yang Yuanqing hurriedly said, "No problem!"

"As long as I become the Alliance Chief of the Southern Seven Provinces Commercial Alliance, let alone a mere sunken ship, even ten ships, I won't spare any expense to have them salvaged."

Speaking to here, he curiously asked, "Can you tell me what that thing is?"

Bai Sha snorted and said, "It's completely useless to you people. But to us martial practitioners, it's a rare treasure."

"Anyway, just do as I said. We'll mutually benefit each other and get what we each want."

"Good!" Yang Yuanqing immediately promised again.

In fact, the relationship between martial practitioners and wealthy families was this kind of mutual reliance. Martial arts required a large amount of resources that were hard to obtain individually.

For example, the item Bai Sha mentioned from the sunken East Sea ship, he only made a rough inference. Having Yang Yuanqing salvage it was just trying his luck. Anyway, it didn't cost him anything so he didn't care how it turned out.

But he made it sound simple. To search a sea area and salvage a sunken ship required immense manpower, resources, and wealth.

With Bai Sha's individual strength, he likely wouldn't accomplish it in his lifetime.

Yet for someone like Yang Yuanqing, that money was just a number. What they lacked wasn't money, but personal safety.

And powerful might to ensure their family would never be maliciously attacked at any time.

From this perspective, him spending a fortune to help Bai Sha improve his martial arts was also an investment into his own and his family's safety.

...

The morning sun rose.

With the arrival of a new day, the 10-day voting period to decide the Alliance Chief of the Southern Seven Provinces Commercial Alliance officially began counting down.

Day one.

A special group of guests arrived at Qin Tian and company's project venue. Twenty people in total, led by Old Six of the Lone Wolf squad.

They had all undergone professional security training to replace the previous ordinary security guards and were responsible for the hotel's basic safety.

Additionally, Qin Tian divided Punishment into two combat teams. One led by Tie Jingshuang to handle security during the day.

The other led by Ma Hongtao to handle nighttime security.

They were specially prepared to deal with sneak attacks by high-level cultivators.

The entire day was calm and peaceful. Nothing unusual happened.

But Qin Tian knew this was merely the prelude to the coming storm.

Canvassing had already begun. The five big families definitely wouldn't sit idle.

Night fell and the lights came on.

An unlicensed Mercedes Benz sedan slowly stopped at the hotel entrance.

Old Six personally brought two brothers over to greet them.

Seeing the fellow who emerged from the car looking like a white-furred zombie, sensing the oppressive aura of death around him, Old Six's expression was grave.

"Friend, this hotel is no longer open for business. If you've come to stay, please go somewhere else."

Old Six politely said.

The visitor was none other than Bai Sha.

He didn't even glance at Old Six, just looked inside the hotel with his lifeless fish eyes.

"I'm here for Qin Tian."

"Call him out." His voice was cold, like a vengeful spirit grinding its teeth at midnight.

Sure enough, not friend but foe.

Old Six inadvertently moved a step to block Bai Sha.

"Who are you?"

"What business do you have with our boss?"

"Speak clearly and I'll relay it."

Bai Sha snorted, then suddenly struck out, bang, sending Old Six flying.

"Bring that thing and follow me!"

He brought two subordinates carrying a large crate and strode right in.

"Quick, stop him!"

"Enemy attack!" Old Six was terrified.

Up til now, he still didn't know how the other had struck him, just that he was inexplicably blown away.

Hearing his shout, the other security guards in the lobby rushed over.

Although their combat strength was inferior to Punishment's, all were professionally trained and could handle ten opponents.

But wherever Bai Sha passed, his palms waved, emitting surges of icy energy that swept everything before him.

Like an uninhabited land, he sent the security guards flying.

Seeing Bai Sha barge into the lobby with his men, heading upstairs, and the large crate his two subordinates were carrying that looked heavily laden with unknown dangerous items, Old Six was shocked speechless. He urgently reported through his earpiece.

"Boss, powerful enemy!"

"Request weapons clearance!"

As he spoke, he gripped the gun at his waist.

In fact, from the moment Bai Sha's car stopped outside, Qin Tian had already seen it on the monitor screen in his room.

Although he didn't recognize Bai Sha, he suddenly recalled Ma Zhuoqun's reminder when leaving last night to be wary of a high-level cultivator raised by the Yang family called Bai Sha.

He was Shadow's elder brother, but his terror exceeded Shadow tenfold.

It seemed the visitor really did have malicious intent!

"Old Six, respect jianghu rules."

"Don't use guns." He gave Old Six instructions through the earpiece.

Then swiftly left the room and slapped the neighboring door, loudly saying, "Old Ma, time to get down to business!"