Ransom 1

Qian Ki, on the other side of the hallway, staring at Xiao Fan through the smoke that didn't affect neither of them wanted to respond in so many ways. Still, when taking into consideration the situation, she could only speak in a certain way.

"I came here to seek my luck like everyone else." So she responded like this, trying to keep her tone the same.

"It seems that you have found that something?" Xiao Fan, when saying this, began to walk into the smoke. He wanted to go and meet her.

The two chiefs now by his side wanted to do something, but at the end, they watched as the figure disappeared from their Body Reunion Realm eyes.

"There is a lot of prey here." Qian Ki responded like a demonic cultivator, not caring of the opinions that others would have.

Sending shivers around the two Chiefs body, they had never met anyone like this! The woman in there was straight-up scary to them.

"Name your price." They kept the voice act on, but now hidden from everyone else's eyes, could they freely express their emotions on their faces.

"Want me to stop? No way!" Her words made no sense when compared to the excited smile she had on her face from seeing him come closer.

"People like you always have your price."

Xiao Fan sounded to the two Chiefs who were the only ones still at a hearing distance as too confident, to them, he sounded like he could bet his life that on that he wouldn't be harmed.

"You couldn't pay that price. That is why there is no price."

Before he got off the next sentence, he was already so close that he hugged her tightly. "I can get you anything if you are willing to talk."

Qian Ki having slithered her hands onto his back ages ago responded. "In that case... we can talk." Her tone was now moving a little to the mischievous side.

"Then let us talk, using our mouths, not fists" His message in this was pretty clear, and a moment later they were sharing a kiss, neither caring of anything else going on.

Their connection emotionally was still rather weak, but in a way having been bound for life, there was no denying that someday the bond between them would be a strong one, and things like this would make it be so. Also, there was the fact that both had missed the other like the young adults they were, so meeting like this...

While they were catching up, the Chiefs were getting a little anxious by the time they came out of it, "Are you still there?" "Were coming in!" They shouted.

'Cmon!' Xiao Fan hearing them speak like this took one more quick kiss before separating from her, who had lowered all her defences to enjoy the moment fully.

Xiao Fan's lips suddenly leaving her mouth was she a little disappointed, yet at the same time, the feeling of the kiss kept her well happy.

"Wait! I'm fine!" Xiao Fan's tone was angry. In his stead, anyone would be angry at them coming to block his fun.

"You sure?"

"Why didn't you respond to us then?" The two Chiefs asked valid questions.

"Yeah, yeah. Better than I have been since coming into your place." He humoured.

"Good, then you might as well leave!" One Chief humoured while stopping their sprint.

"He's completely fine." Qian Ki trying her absolute best to keep her tone confirmed, though her tone did fail a little.

"Can't keep the act going?" Xiao Fan still having his hands on her whispered.

"No... can we go somewhere else?" She didn't try to lie anymore since she wasn't going to pull it off, so why try only to fail? Better tell it what she truly wanted.

"Did you do something to him?" The Chief who had been fighting against her wasn't trusting 'What if she has him under the knife?' He reasoned and so was walking towards them.

"Threatening him isn't worth it." Qian Ki responded.

"Then you can surely show up to us. I'm fairly confident that you can see us anyway in here." He was a hundred per cent sure that the woman could see in this smoke where they saw a meter forward.

"Fine." Came an angry voice of Qian Ki who was forced to get off Xiao Fan's body. 'Stupid old men, ruining everything!' She thought to herself as she went over to the two men.

"Wow..." The Chief in the wolf headdress slipped this out of his mouth when seeing the woman come out from hiding, 'Is she a woman?'

The other Chief was also of the same opinion, but he wouldn't blurt out anything; nonetheless, he also felt that this being might not be a woman.

"You never seen a beautiful woman?" Xiao Fan coming to their vision, laughed after seeing their faces. Two adult men almost drooling for a woman was quite the sight.

No response came from the two Chiefs still struck with the hammer.

"It might be that the women in this place aren't a match or something." Even Qian Ki, who was supposedly shy, said this.

'She has learned to keep her cool?' He speculated but dismissed the idea completely. Most likely, there were other factors in this like, how currently she was in her rampage form rather than the usual shy one. How did he know? Well, he had never seen her eyes be this red, they were like looking into a campfire, not resembling her usual blue eyes at all.

Even after he himself had seen them, he couldn't but look at them from the side and be mesmerised by how there were small fluctuations in her eyes.

"Like you are fairing any better" Qian Ki noted how he was also looking at her, yet this time her cool was disappearing as her snow-white face gained a little red.

"Anyways!" One of the Chiefs was finally back to reality, "So if we want you to stop this we need to pay something? That is how this is going to go?"

"Yep. Pay me enough, and I'll stop."

The other Chief with the wolf headdress spoke "Mask was it" and waited for a nod "How do you deal with them?"

"First, you should introduce yourselves to the other party." He advised.

"Duan Han." The man with the wolf headdress introduced.

"Duan Hon." The man who looked frail even compared to Xiao Fan introduced.

Their introduction came almost instantly, not hiding their intentions much.

"Nice to meet you two" This coming from Qian Ki was enough to stun them, again "People call me Qian Wei or Qian Ki."

"You are Qian Ki?" Xiao Fan wanted to act as if he had never met her.

"You know her?" Duan Han asked.

"Of course I don't, but her name is well known amongst people my age. Moreover, what you should think is that you aren't dealing with a normal demonic cultivator but Qian Ki." He noted, raising the ransom.

"Why is that?"

"She doesn't lack money" Xiao Fan shortly explained that a money bribe wouldn't work on her.

"Brother, why are we even paying for a ransom for her to stop?" Duan Hon wasn't even convinced regarding this, yet.

"Then, don't pay me." She shrugged her shoulders. "Though, in that case, I'll continue what I'm doing or sell my services to the Bald Eagle Dynasty."

"You hire people like her?" What kind of righteous faction shit is that!

"The type that wins." Xiao Fan casually replied. "Her mother was a noble in the Bald Eagle Dynasty, so hiring her isn't anything unnormal."

"See. Now be wise and pay me." Qian Ki acting with him stated. At first, she hadn't gotten the idea, but by now, she had realised that they were trying to get some goodies out of this, 'Serves them right!' She felt that this was fair after they had come and interrupted them.

"A moment." Duan Hon spoke and took his brother away so that they could talk.

"Are we really going to let ourselves be extorted." Duan Hon still, not convinced asked his brother, who was much more willing to do so.

"Then how are we going to get rid of her? You had how much time, and you couldn't hit her." Of course, Duan Han didn't want to bribe a kid to go away, yet he didn't know any better.

Neither did his brother, or anyone else. But no one in here had ever met someone like her, so they were on new ground.

"What can we even give her?" Duan Hon asked another question on her mind.

"Why would we pay her anything? Bring her back to Ulaanbaatar, and figure things out there" Duan Han offered a solution to their problem.

"She will follow us because?" Duan Hon.

"We take the Bald Eagle Dynasty diplomat with us." Duan Han

"He will come? Because of?" Duan Hon

"That is his job. Cmon let us do this, I don't want to give her my sword or anything like that as a bribe so..." Duan Han was sure that this would work.

"You do the talking then." Duan Hin said so, and then both of them sped back into the meeting spot they had left to have the discussion.

"They are coming again" Xiao Fan hearing them come back, pushed Qian Ki off him and prepared to continue the talks. 'Hope this goes well.'

"Well, what do you have for me?" Qian Ki was at this point completely messing up the tone she had started the meeting with. Thankfully no one else than Xiao Fan noted this.

"Nothing, yet." Duan Han spoke this much and then looked at Duan Hon to continue the rest.

Who after a sigh continued. "Instead we invite both of you two come and discuss this further in Ulaanbaatar."

Xiao Fan wasn't too happy with this, but went along, "Do we have any guarantees for our lives?" This was the least they needed to go there.

"The two of us will be in the Bald Eagle Dynasty camp for the time you spend in Ulaanbaatar. Two Body Reunion Realm cultivators should be enough deterrence." Duan Hon came up with a guarantee.

"What!" Duan Han, however, didn't like his brother's idea at all.

"Just accept it; furthermore, this way we don't need to pay the ransom." Duan Hon did have some planning done.

"Paying a part of the ransom would be a small thing compared to losing one's life."

"The Bald Eagle Dynasty isn't like that...I can guarantee that the Second Prince will keep you two alive. Duan Han, you can even get to spar with him if you want to." Xiao Fan was now fine with the deal. The Holy Coalition would do nothing to them as long as two of their strongest fighters were going to die for hurting them.

"I'm fine." Qian Ki understanding that Xiao Fan was okay with this changed her opinion rather quickly.

"See, everything will be fine. And like Mask said, your opponent will be there to spar with you." Duan Hon now tried to get his brother into his idea 'Didn't he just now want to do this? Why is he backing down now?'

"Sure, but Wang Geming will have to spar with me or no deal." Duan Han agreed if this term was fulfilled.

"It will be you who can't spar enough to quench his thirst." Xiao Fan laughed. "Didn't you realise that the Prince had a little too much energy in him?" The Nectar of Haste was still very active inside the Prince, so he should be completely willing, even wanting.

"I'll be outside in a moment." Qian Ki disappeared deeper into the complex, most likely getting her tools, and other stuff.

"Now we need to hope that the others have kept to the armistice, or our negotiation was for nothing" Xiao Fan stated to the chiefs.

"We have our honour."