"Two years... just two years..."
Li Qingluo looked towards Wang Yuyan, hesitating but still asked, "Yuyan, what do you think?"
Upon hearing this, Wang Yuyan’s heart instantly understood her mother’s choice, despite being very unwilling.
But if she were to refuse Jiang Dali, the great villain, not only would her mother struggle to escape, but she also truly wouldn’t know what to do after the refusal.
All she could do was sigh inwardly, nod slightly, and lower her head to hum a sound of acknowledgment.
Seeing this, Li Qingluo felt both ashamed and inexplicably delighted, and said, "I’m sorry to put you through this."
She then looked towards Jiang Dali, her eyes filled with both expectation and a longing that seemed to have been suppressed for many years.
"Can you really do what you said for me?"
Jiang Dali grinned with a cold smile, "Lady Wang, be mindful of your current predicament. I’m just saying that if you perform well in your service to me, I will consider capturing that faithless rogue and delivering him to your side for a lifetime of togetherness. But I never said I would definitely do it. After all, I manage such a large Mountain Village and am too busy dealing with endless affairs every day; I certainly won’t run errands just for you."
"The village chief speaks reasonably. Qingluo understands, of course. It’s just that I no longer have any feelings for that faithless rogue, and if you were to capture him, I would still wish to torment him in every possible way to vent the hatred in my heart," Li Qingluo said, her expression and gaze hardening with an icy chill.
Jiang Dali couldn’t be bothered with this woman who was pretending yet starving with longing for who knows how many years. With a casual wave of his hand, his Qi Force, which could strike across mountains, hit, causing Duan Yu, who was eavesdropping outside the room, to fly out screaming in agony.
Then he spoke indifferently, "Since that’s the case, my lady, you can now leave the mountain with your people. Your Manduo Villa, from this day forward, shall be considered to have my Black Wind Village’s flag planted on it, serving as a place to cultivate our dark agents and informants. I will send someone to confer with you at the villa regarding specific future strategies and measures."
Li Qingluo thought to herself, as long as you capture Duan Lang for me and let me go, it doesn’t matter if Manduo Villa becomes an affiliated force of Black Wind Village. It’s also like having a powerful backer. She immediately nodded in agreement, then stood up and pulled Wang Yuyan to say goodbye.
"My daughter, I can only wrong you . Actually, there’s nothing objectionable about Master Jiang’s heroism and military genius. You can see that he’s not a common man; he’s much stronger than your hypocritical cousin, and far stronger than that embroidered pillow outside. Staying in Black Wind Village to work for Master Jiang is not like casting pearls before swine."
Wang Yuyan opened her mouth wanting to argue.
But for a moment, she indeed couldn’t find any words to refute.
Although Jiang Dali, the great villain, was indeed a bit too ruthless, ambitiously greedy, and frighteningly muscular...
It seemed that he really was stronger than many men...
After all, being able to develop a once insignificant Black Wind Village into its current scale, famous throughout the Martial World, was no easy feat.
But Wang Yuyan felt disgusted by this great villain without reason, making it very difficult for her to willingly accept him.
Jiang Dali didn’t care whether Li Qingluo spoke well of him, or to put it another way, he didn’t care whether Wang Yuyan had a good or bad impression of him, as long as it wasn’t indifference.
Once the mother and daughter had finished their discussion, Jiang Dali personally escorted them out of the room.
It was then that Duan Yu, looking disheveled, rushed in and indignantly said to Jiang Dali, "I disagree! Master Jiang, I think you too are a great and noble man. You should not coerce Miss Wang and her mother in this way. It’s beneath the dignity of a hero and it’s not what a gentleman would do!"
Jiang Dali sneered, towering over Duan Yu with the advantage of height and looking down upon him with crossed arms, he said coldly, "Foolish hero, worthless gentleman. When I Jiang do things, I seek only to be unrestrained and free. Why would I need a bunch of rules to confine me? Even if those rules did bind me, I’d break them down. Besides, Lady Wang and Miss Wang are here voluntarily, how is it any concern of yours, you busybody?"
"No! I’m going to intervene!"
Duan Yu suddenly shouted, and reached out a palm, grabbing Jiang Dali. A fierce Absorption Force erupted instantly.
Jiang Dali grinned coldly, not resisting, and allowed Duan Yu to absorb frenziedly.
However, the Inner Qi within the two lower Dantians within his body rotated, one clockwise and the other counterclockwise, as if forming a perfect closed loop under their mutual pull.
No matter how the external Absorption Force exploded, not a trace could be absorbed.
Duan Yu looked at Jiang Dali in amazement and shock, "You!"
Jiang Dali snorted and his body shook. With a slight contraction of his muscles, Duan Yu felt a powerful force strike him, sending him flying and landing on the ground with a thud.
"With your current level of power, you might siphon off some True Qi from ordinary Martial World people, but trying to absorb my, Jiang Dali’s, True Qi? It’s like a madman’s dream!"
Jiang Dali stared at Duan Yu with contemptuous laughter.
The Beiming Divine Skill was powerful.
But he had learned it too.
Moreover, he had also mastered many other Divine Skills, including Dharma’s Muscle Strengthening Scripture, which could resist Absorption Skills, by blending so many Divine Skills into one. He possessed a robust and vigorous True Qi, so much stronger than Duan Yu’s.
Duan Yu’s little absorption effort trying to take his True Qi was like a mosquito trying to drain a cow, utterly ridiculous.
Thinking of Fang Zheng, who died by his hand yesterday, was able to resist Ren Woxing’s Absorption Star Technique, the gap between him, Jiang Dali, and the current Duan Yu was...
Jiang Dali hadn’t finished his thought when Duan Yu, who had fallen to the ground, suddenly roared with a great shout and slammed his palms on the ground.