Chapter 157: Quite a Commotion

Only thirty thousand? Li Fusheng frowned slightly.

To be so utterly shameless and only manage to scrape together thirty thousand spiritual stones? Li Fusheng felt he had gotten the short end of the stick.

"It really is only thirty thousand!" Zong Tian said. "I came down here on serious business. How many spiritual stones do you think I would carry around?"

"Fine, thirty thousand it is then!" Li Fusheng said.

Zong Tian tossed a storage ring directly to Li Fusheng.

Li Fusheng inspected its contents and said in a deep voice, "The count is correct, exactly thirty thousand spiritual stones. As for the rest, I will come looking for you personally once I return. Just make sure you don't try to welch on the debt!"

"I am a man of my word. Do you take me for someone of your dubious character?" Zong Tian retorted irritably.

Given Zong Tian's status and standing, one hundred thousand medium-grade spiritual stones were a trivial matter to him. However, being extorted by Li Fusheng in this manner left a sour taste in his mouth every time he thought about it.

"That's good then!" Li Fusheng's face broke into a broad smile.

"Now, can I take him away?" Zong Tian pointed at Wang Changsheng and asked testily.

Zong Tian had made up his mind that the next time he encountered Li Fusheng, he would definitely settle this score. The main issue was that he hadn't brought any powerful magical treasures with him on this current trip. Once he had a powerful magical treasure to counter Li Fusheng's three-legged giant cauldron, Zong Tian believed he had a very good chance of defeating him. After all, the current Li Fusheng was no longer the same Li Fusheng as before.

With that, Zong Tian signaled the cultivator in the grey robe to take Wang Changsheng away.

"Hold on!"

Li Fusheng frowned and immediately spoke up. "When did I ever say I was going to let you take him?"

"Li Fusheng! You..." Seeing Li Fusheng block them, Zong Tian immediately said, "You just said that if I helped him repay what he owes you, you would let me take him!"

"That's right, I did say that!" Li Fusheng replied promptly.

"And now the spiritual stones have been given to you!" Zong Tian said with a dark expression.

"The spiritual stones have been given, yes, but Wang Changsheng owes me more than just spiritual stones!" Li Fusheng said solemnly. "Wang Changsheng also owes the Li family an airship, a war-class airship!"

"What?"

An angry roar burst from Zong Tian's lips. "Li Fusheng, you are pushing things too far! He is merely a cultivator at the second layer of Huayuan; what capability does he have to owe you a war-class airship?!"

Zong Tian finally saw through Li Fusheng's game. No matter what happened today, Li Fusheng had no intention of letting Wang Changsheng be taken away.

"What do you mean by pushing things too far?" Li Fusheng retorted instantly. "I, the great philanthropist Li, never utter falsehoods. Go ahead and ask Wang Changsheng yourself if he owes me an airship!"

This time, Li Fusheng did not give any subtle winks.

Upon hearing Li Fusheng's words, dark lines instantly appeared across Wang Changsheng's forehead.

If he admitted to what Li Fusheng was saying, it meant Wang Changsheng was acknowledging that he had withheld the Li family's airship. Even if he hadn't actually done so, given Li Fusheng's temperament, he would likely demand an airship from Wang Changsheng as compensation anyway.

However, in the current situation, Wang Changsheng had no choice but to go along with it!

"I do owe him an airship!" Wang Changsheng said in a deep voice.

"Look, look, didn't I tell you?" Li Fusheng said with a smile.

Zong Tian's expression grew increasingly dark. If not for his apprehension of Li Fusheng's strength, Zong Tian would have wanted to kill him right then and there.

"Oh, right, Wang Changsheng also owes me a supreme treasure. Little Sweetie, why don't you help him repay that as well? An airship and a supreme treasure—once those are cleared, I will let you take him away!" Li Fusheng smiled.

"Li Fusheng, that's enough!"

"Li Fusheng, don't push your luck!"

Wang Changsheng and Zong Tian roared at the exact same moment.

Zong Tian felt that Li Fusheng was going much too far. Not content with refusing to let him take Wang Changsheng, how much more wealth did he plan to extort?

As for Wang Changsheng, he felt that Li Fusheng's claims were becoming increasingly absurd. Wang Changsheng certainly dared not agree; otherwise, what would he do when Li Fusheng eventually demanded a supreme treasure from him? Wang Changsheng had no way of producing one!

After finishing their simultaneous roars, Wang Changsheng and Zong Tian exchanged a glance, realizing that despite being enemies, they actually shared a moment of tacit understanding when faced with Li Fusheng!

"Alright, alright, Zong Tian, you should head back. I am definitely protecting this Wang Changsheng!" Li Fusheng said impatiently.

Seeing Li Fusheng's firm attitude and knowing that nothing could be done, Zong Tian wore a gloomy expression, flicked his large sleeve, and departed directly with the grey-robed cultivator.

Seeing Zong Tian leave, Wang Changsheng finally let out a thorough sigh of relief.

"Alright, he's gone now. Shouldn't we talk about what happened to the airship?" Li Fusheng said gravely. "I went back to check, and the airship never returned to the Li family. Judging by the time it departed, it should have made it back long ago, shouldn't it?"

"This... it's possible the airship returned to Cloud Palace Peak. Did you go check Cloud Palace Peak?" Wang Changsheng asked.

"I've already checked!" Li Fusheng said in a low voice. "Wang Changsheng, stop trying to talk your way out of it. You must be the one who detained the airship!"

"Li Fusheng, shouldn't you speak with some evidence?" Wang Changsheng immediately argued. "I am merely at the Huayuan realm; I wouldn't dare detain something belonging to you, the great philanthropist Li!"

"That's true as well!" Li Fusheng agreed matter-of-factly.

"However, the airship was indeed borrowed by you. Now that we can't contact the Li family cultivators on board, you must take responsibility for this matter!" Li Fusheng said solemnly.

"How am I supposed to take responsibility?" Wang Changsheng smiled bitterly. "Do you honestly expect me to be able to return an airship to you?"

"I'd need to have that kind of capability in the first place!" Wang Changsheng added.

"I don't care about that!" Li Fusheng declared instantly. "Anyway, I'm going to stick by your side until you return the airship to me. Only then will I let you off the hook. Besides, you just admitted yourself that you owe me an airship!"

Seeing Li Fusheng resort to shameless tactics, Wang Changsheng was completely out of ideas.

If his strength were not lacking, Wang Changsheng genuinely wanted to slap Li Fusheng to death.

"You're following me not because of the airship, are you?" Wang Changsheng squinted.

Given Li Fusheng's temperament, he would never stick around just for the sake of an airship. Furthermore, the Corpse Refining Sect's current situation was precarious at best; Li Fusheng should have been staying as far away as possible!

"Then what else could it be for?" Li Fusheng countered immediately. "Do you know how valuable an airship is? What's more, that was the Li family's only war airship!"

"Fine, fine, just follow me then!" Wang Changsheng said helplessly.

Li Fusheng had just saved his life, so Wang Changsheng had no grounds for refusal.

"Let's go, let's go, let's go find Cloud Palace Peak and see if they managed to acquire the inheritance..." Li Fusheng said immediately upon seeing Wang Changsheng agree.

"No, we are not going!"

Wang Changsheng said firmly.

"Why not?" Li Fusheng asked.

"If I went to find Cloud Palace Peak right now, how would that be any different from marching to my death?" Wang Changsheng said helplessly.

He then proceeded to recount everything that had transpired within the God of War Tomb to Li Fusheng.

After finishing his account, Wang Changsheng looked at Li Fusheng with a helpless expression.

Li Fusheng did not speak immediately. Instead, he paced around Wang Changsheng, eyeing him up and down with a scrutinizing gaze.

"Tsk tsk tsk... Wang Changsheng, I never would've guessed you had such a stout pair of guts!" Li Fusheng said with a half-smile. "Not only did you kill so many people from Cloud Palace Peak, but you even managed to get two cultivators from the He family killed!"

"What could I possibly have done?" Wang Changsheng said in resignation.

"Nothing you could do? Was there really nothing you could do?" Li Fusheng asked with a knowing smile.

Wang Changsheng remained silent, his expression turning wistful.

Was there truly nothing he could do?

Wang Changsheng asked himself the exact same question.

"Alright, then we won't go looking for Cloud Palace Peak. Let's go find the people from your Corpse Refining Sect first!" Li Fusheng said. "Having offended both Cloud Palace Peak and the He family, they probably aren't having a very easy time without your brain around!"

Wang Changsheng's expression shifted instantly.

Having been abducted for so long, and with all the time that had passed until he finally met up with Li Fusheng, Wang Changsheng genuinely worried about the safety of the Corpse Refining Sect disciples.

"Let's go!"

Wang Changsheng said urgently.

Without delay, Wang Changsheng led Li Fusheng and hurried toward the place where he had originally been abducted.

Rumble, rumble, rumble...

Just as Li Fusheng took flight, a series of booming noises echoed out, generated entirely by his three-legged giant cauldron.

"Listen, Li Fusheng, can you put that cauldron away?" Wang Changsheng immediately complained. "The commotion you're making is simply too big!"

Given that Wang Changsheng already had plenty of enemies within the God of War Tomb, he needed to maintain a low profile. If he traveled with Li Fusheng while dragging such a massive cauldron along, they would likely be spotted from miles away.

"To be honest, I can't..." Li Fusheng put on an embarrassed expression. "I haven't refined this thing yet, so I really can't put it away right now!"

Wang Changsheng: "..."

"Then can you shrink it down a bit?" Wang Changsheng asked with a darkened face.

Li Fusheng's expression grew even more awkward. "Well... I can't do that either. If I could shrink it, I wouldn't have been smashed down from the sky in the first place!"

Wang Changsheng: "..."

Very well, it was clear to Wang Changsheng that he truly had no recourse against Li Fusheng!

Rumble, rumble, rumble...

The two of them flew through mid-air with a gigantic three-legged giant cauldron trailing behind them, kicking up waves of thunderous noise.

Along the way, they encountered quite a few cultivators, many of whom gazed with curiosity at the giant cauldron following Li Fusheng. After all, a three-legged giant cauldron clearly looked extraordinary at first glance. This was the God of War Tomb, after all—who was to say this giant cauldron wasn't some supreme treasure that had just been discovered?

However, upon sensing the terrifying pressure radiating from the giant cauldron, many cultivators immediately dismissed the thought. The might emanating from the cauldron was not something ordinary cultivators could control. With so many eyes currently focused on it, even if someone managed to snatch it, there was no way they could keep it!

Though many cultivators understood this logic, they still chose to tail Wang Changsheng and Li Fusheng. Judging by the pair's blatant behavior, something major was bound to happen. If they continued to follow along, perhaps they might be able to pick up some scraps later on, right?

"It seems quite a few fellow Daoists are interested in this cauldron..." Li Fusheng remarked with a half-smile.

Seeing Li Fusheng's expression, Wang Changsheng knew at once that Li Fusheng was about to trick someone again!