Chapter 448: Chapter 239: No Ticket, No Mercy, Situation Overpowers [Subscribe Please]_2
The Zhou Family didnât give much time, demanding the relevant items be delivered to Jiufeng Ridge within five days, or else they would kill the hostage!
But if they really followed what Zhang Shiâan said in the jade slip and handed over those items, the loss to the Zhang Family would be tremendous.
Therefore, it was difficult for Zhang Kaida to make the decision alone on whether to follow Zhang Shiâanâs instructions; he had to call an elder council meeting and let all family elders vote on the decision.
However, Zhang Kaida was very clear in his mind that if Zhang Shiâan had indeed fallen into the hands of the Zhou Family, the Zhang Family had no other choice but to obediently pay the ransom to save him.
Indeed, that was the case.
At the Zhang Familyâs elder council meeting, the main focus of the eldersâ discussion was not whether or not to pay the ransom, but whether the news was true and whether they could negotiate with the Zhou Family to reduce the ransom.
Some even harbored wild hopes, believing that during a time when the whole country was resisting the onslaught of the Beast Tide, the Zhou Family wouldnât dare to harm a Purple Mansion Phase Cultivator like Zhang Shiâan.
They thought that once the three major sects called for the mobilization of Purple Mansion Cultivators from the families for battle again, the Zhou Family would have no choice but to release Zhang Shiâan.
In response to these remarks, Zhang Kaida shook his head, both inwardly and outwardly.
He didnât think the Zhou Family would be so compliant.
After all, Zhang Shiâan was caught red-handed attacking the Zhou Family, and there was no way to wash that away.
Even if the Zhou Family killed Zhang Shiâan, it would be justified, and no one would be able to say anything.
When the three major sects learned of this, they would at most rebuke the Zhou Family for lacking a sense of the bigger picture and not considering the overall situation.
With such noise and commotion, they failed to reach a definite conclusion about whether to meet the Zhou Familyâs terms for ransom.
It wasnât until the person who went out to gather information returned with news of the Zhou Familyâs third-order Green Flood Dragon that all debates came to an abrupt halt.
The Zhou Family was actually hiding a third-order Green Flood Dragon!
When Zhang Kaida heard this news, he too was shocked and horrified.
âNo wonder! No wonder at the Hundred Clans Conference, Zhou Daoyi was unwilling to let his Sky Azure Cloud Python Spirit Pet participate in the battle!â
âSo, the Zhou Family suddenly drove all outsiders out of their mountain gate because that Sky Azure Cloud Python in the Zhou Family Mountain gate evolved into a third-order Green Flood Dragon?â
A sense of sudden realization rose in Zhang Kaidaâs heart, and he understood many of his previous confusions.
Unfortunately, these answers came too late for him now!
If he had known them earlier, he definitely wouldnât have continued to be enemies with the Zhou Family, and he certainly wouldnât have thought about seeking revenge against them!
âDamn the Zhou Family! They deliberately hid this information, pretending to be weak to lure our Zhang Family into taking action against them. This was all their conspiracy!â
An elder of the Zhang Family couldnât help but curse out loud, his face full of anger and fear.
Many people are like that; when they do something wrong, they wonât admit their mistakes and believe itâs others who caused them to err.
The typical blaming of a stinky privy pit when they canât produce a bowel movement!
But they only dared to curse like this within the Zhang Family.
In fact, the elders of the Zhang Family were all terribly afraid of the Zhou Family in their hearts.
Zhang Kaida noticed this and after collecting his thoughts, he let out a long sigh, âWell, letâs do as the Supreme Elder suggested, consider it spending money to ward off disaster!â
Hearing his words, a few Zhang Family elders looked at each other, no one spoke against it, thus tacitly agreeing.
The situation is stronger than the people, and the Zhou Family indeed had a grip on their weak spot; they had no choice but to compromise.
Moreover, based on the information they had now, even if they did not agree to the Zhou Familyâs demands and the Zhou Family did indeed open up their strategy by releasing Zhang Shiâan,
what could the Zhang Family do when the Zhou Family came to settle the total account with them after the war ended?
So after the elder council approved, Zhang Kaida immediately opened the Family Treasure Vault to select items, and together with the donations from Family Cultivators, they managed to gather the ransom within three days.
He then wasted no time and personally led the ransom to Jiufeng Ridge.
When Zhang Kaida arrived at the Zhou Family on Jiufeng Ridge, the Zhou Family was hosting Taoist Mingxia, who had come to visit.
On this occasion, Taoist Mingxia came on behalf of Green Lotus Temple to the Zhou Family to inquire about the third-order Green Flood Dragon.
In the midst of a war with the Dragon Transformation Sect and the Flood Dragon Clan, the sudden emergence of a third-order Green Flood Dragon from the Zhou Family garnered significant attention.
Even though Master Qingwei of Green Lotus Temple had a good guess about the origin of the third-order Green Flood Dragon, she still sent Taoist Mingxia, who had a close relationship with the Zhou Family, to inquire about the matter.
This was also within the expectations of a few people from the Zhou Family.
Therefore, facing Taoist Mingxiaâs inquiries, Zhou Daoyi directly replied, âTaoist Friend Mingxia is wise. My Spirit Pet, the Sky Azure Cloud Python, inherently possesses the Flood Dragon Bloodline, with the potential to Transform into a Flood Dragon.â
âLuckily, I obtained an item that could aid its transformation, and it indeed proved itself by successfully reverting to its ancestral bloodline and evolving into a Green Flood Dragon after refining that item, and consequently, it broke through to the third order!â
Hearing his response, Taoist Mingxia looked at him meaningfully and said, âThe item that helped with the transformation into a Flood Dragon mentioned by Taoist Friend Zhou, wouldnât happen to be a third-order Green Flood Dragonâs inner core, would it?â
Upon hearing this, Zhou Daoyiâs expression remained unchanged as he retorted, âIs it absolutely necessary for me to answer that?â