God-Level Special Forces Soldier

Chapter 907 - 903: Extorting the Drip Organization

The middle-aged man obviously cared, or rather, he had no way not to care. This could be said to concern his future prospects and even his personal safety; if anything went wrong, he might very well have to pay with his life.Forcing himself to calm down, the middle-aged man spoke evenly, "Since you aren’t satisfied with the price I offered, then please, state your conditions."

As he spoke, he couldn’t help feeling puzzled. He had clearly planned to get him to defect and help control Adison Claire—how had things developed to this point?

However, Xiao Tian didn’t give him much time to react. After what he’d just said, he could basically be certain that the Water Drop Organization wouldn’t rashly send people over. At least within the agreed one-hour window, both he and Adison Claire were safe.

As for after an hour, once they failed to see any auction announcement appear on the Dark List, the lie would naturally fall apart on its own.

So, resolving the problem within an hour was Xiao Tian’s top priority at the moment.

In fact, there was another very important reason Xiao Tian dared to brazenly threaten the Water Drop Organization: he knew that most of the Water Drop Organization’s strength was currently gathered at the foot of Kunlun Mountain, locked in a struggle with Daoist Tianxing and several other forces.

Those left behind to guard the house were unlikely to be anything too formidable. Since the conversation had already been driven to this point, Xiao Tian felt that if he didn’t properly knock a big stroke of profit out of the Water Drop Organization, he really would be letting himself down.

As for what exactly to ask for, Xiao Tian couldn’t quite decide for the moment. But judging from the fact that the other side was willing to offer a sky‑high fifty million US Dollars, what he asked for next definitely couldn’t be anything commonplace.

Xiao Tian had indeed considered taking the opportunity to stock up on more of the medicinal ingredients on the prescription, but after doing the math, while those medicines were certainly valuable, even added together they could never possibly reach fifty million.

Besides, they would be extremely inconvenient to carry around, so he had no choice but to give up on that plan and at the same time set the baseline for what he was about to ask for.

Put simply, Xiao Tian was currently considering a few criteria. First, the items couldn’t be too large; they had to be easy to carry. Second, their value couldn’t be too low—at least not lower than that fifty‑million mark.

It wasn’t that Xiao Tian was opening his mouth like a lion; it was that the people from the Water Drop Organization had been too straightforward and had pushed the price up to fifty million US Dollars. According to common sense, you set an outrageous asking price and then bargain down—that was how it should go.

Otherwise, if Xiao Tian now asked for something too cheap, the other side would immediately smell something fishy the moment he opened his mouth.

As for asking directly for money, that had never even crossed Xiao Tian’s mind. In his view, money was enough as long as it covered his needs. He wasn’t short of money to begin with, nor did he have any urgent use for it. Having more wouldn’t be of much use.

So to sum up, anything that met Xiao Tian’s conditions had to have the following traits: small and easy to carry, not low in value, and preferably something he could actually use right now.

Unable to come up with anything concrete for the moment, Xiao Tian could only follow the principle that rarity makes things precious and opened his mouth: "Dan Ding Xuanxin, Cuihong Treasure Rock, Celestial Poison Vine, Gale Profound Iron, Profound Nether Vajra..."

A whole string of items that the middle-aged man had never even heard of rolled off Xiao Tian’s tongue like a rapid-fire recitation, leaving the middle-aged man staring, dumbfounded, as if he’d been turned to stone on the spot.

Behind him, Adison Claire had the same bewildered look. Clearly she’d never heard of that string of items Xiao Tian had just rattled off either.

Of course, the things Xiao Tian mentioned weren’t something he’d just made up on the spot to deliberately stump the Water Drop Organization. They were all very real—or had once been real—and every single one of them was a Treasure Level item.

Among them, Dan Ding Xuanxin, Gale Profound Iron, and Profound Nether Vajra—those three treasures with the character "Xuan" in their names—actually formed a complete set when gathered together.

Profound Nether Vajra, according to the records, was the best material for forging a Pill Furnace. Its exterior was a pale yellow and could perfectly insulate against external heat, ensuring that the interior wouldn’t be disturbed during the Alchemy process.

Gale Profound Iron was a treasure formed under the constant tempering of the most powerful gales. If placed at the base of a Pill Furnace, there would be no need for manual fanning of the flames to heat it; with just a bit of True Qi, the heat could be perfectly controlled.

Dan Ding Xuanxin was the most indispensable treasure of the three. It could be used as the lid of the Pill Furnace. It was said that with it, the success rate of forming pills from a single furnace could be increased by at least thirty percent.

Of course, it wasn’t that Xiao Tian was determined to embark on the path of Alchemy. It was just that in Sun Bo’s ancient texts, there were long sections devoted to introducing lost treasures, and now he was simply reciting from memory, thinking that getting even one of them would be a win.

As for the Celestial Poison Vine and Cuihong Treasure Rock, those were items Xiao Tian mentioned deliberately. The former was a weapon, while the latter was a Cultivation Technique that had already been lost.

The brilliance of the Celestial Poison Vine lay in the fact that, as long as the user could achieve perfect compatibility with it, they could control it purely with their mind, instead of being limited to the conventional method of using limbs to drive the weapon’s attacks.

Such a weapon was practically tailor‑made for Melinda. If they could obtain it, her combat strength would likely increase by at least forty percent, and in certain special circumstances, even doubling it for explosive strikes wouldn’t be out of the question!

There was nothing else he could do. With no idea when he himself would be able to recover his peak strength, Xiao Tian could only try his best to strengthen the people around him to gain some peace of mind.

As for Lin Bingxuan, there was no need to say much. The weapon suitable for her still needed to be explored by herself, and although with the help of the little Artifact Spirit girl she could already unleash considerable combat power...

Endless Life, in essence, was still not a damaging Cultivation Technique, so the significance of improving it wasn’t that great. He could only wait until she fully digested her last bout of enlightenment before making further plans.

Finally, as for Cuihong Treasure Rock, it was a Cultivation Technique that Xiao Tian had always been quite fond of and planned to have the little girl practice if they ever managed to obtain it.

Though different from Iron Chain Cross River’s sheer ferocity, Cuihong Treasure Rock excelled in its gorgeous moves and myriad variations. Once mastered to the extreme, it was said that no move could fail to be broken; it could definitely be considered overwhelmingly powerful!

Of course, this was just Xiao Tian’s judgment based on a partial remnant of Cuihong Treasure Rock and the descriptions in ancient texts. Its authenticity shouldn’t be too far off.

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When the middle-aged man reported this information to his superiors, the instructions he received were that people had already been sent to check the inventory and search for the items the other party had listed. During this period, they absolutely could not allow the other party to change his mind, and they had to do their utmost to reduce the quantity requested.

After doing the count, Xiao Tian had asked for a total of thirteen treasures. The middle-aged man felt immense pressure. Getting the other party to ask for less? That was easier said than done—anyone could tell how difficult that would be.

But with the upper echelons having already given their orders, he had no choice but to follow them step by step. After thinking it over, the middle-aged man opened his mouth and said, "The items you mentioned are all too obscure. Could you switch to something a bit more common, or at least slightly reduce the quantity?"

At this point, there was practically a pleading tone in the middle-aged man’s voice, and he kept glancing down at the watch on his wrist.