Chapter 441: Chapter 438: Are You in Despair?
What’s going on?
That’s not what you just said!
Mo Qi’s decision was, for a moment, difficult for the Immortals to accept.
He just said the number of peanuts he could make depended on the size of the pot. Why was he only making ten at a time now?
Isn’t that too few!
There were over four hundred people here, clutching their big bellies, waiting. At a rate of ten per batch, even if a batch only took about ten minutes, by the time the last person got their turn, more than half of them would probably have died from the pain.
"Can’t you make a few more?" someone couldn’t help but ask.
’More? Of course, I can!’
Mo Qi thought to himself, ’Forget four hundred of you; I can make two or three thousand in a single pot without a problem. But if I did that, how could I squeeze a fortune out of you?’
’Didn’t you all think you had me cornered before? Weren’t you going to ignore the rules and target me as a group?’
’Did you really think you could go after me, Mo Qi, without paying a price?’
So, Mo Qi spread his hands, a look of innocence on his face. "My Cultivation is limited. Ten is my absolute limit. If I make any more than that, I can’t guarantee they’ll work."
Hearing this, the Immortals all shook their heads and sighed in disappointment.
Compared to quantity, they were far more concerned about effectiveness.
What if they ate one and it didn’t get rid of the fetus in their belly, but instead accelerated its growth and development? Wouldn’t they be completely finished then?
But ten per pot was just a drop in the ocean.
No one could guarantee how long they would be able to hold out.
"Effectiveness?" Not far away, Huangfu Zhong sneered. "I think you’re just using this as an opportunity to blackmail your colleagues and make a windfall!"
As his voice fell, the expressions of the powerful experts turned strange.
No one was a fool. The moment Mo Qi mentioned auctioning off the spots, they had already realized this.
But so what?
Besides pretending they didn’t know, what else could they do to Mo Qi?
But since Huangfu Zhong had laid it all out in the open, they were happy to see how Mo Qi would explain himself.
Mo Qi glanced at Huangfu Zhong and said flatly, "You’re right. I am blackmailing you. I am trying to make a windfall. What about it? What can you do to me?"
Huangfu Zhong was stunned, speechless.
He never expected Mo Qi would admit it so openly.
"Come, come, anyone unwilling to be blackmailed by me, Mo Qi, can leave now. Besides, without the peanuts, you can still cut your stomachs open. It’s simple, direct, and you won’t have to spend any money."
In response, some of the Immortals looked up at the sky, pretending to admire the scenery. Some looked down at their own bellies, stroking them with a fatherly expression. Others adopted a meditative pose, as if their minds had wandered far away.
In short, without exception, no one commented on Mo Qi’s words. They all pretended not to have heard a thing.
"Feeling hopeless?" Mo Qi turned his head and looked at Huangfu Zhong with a smile. "I just love this look on you—the one that says you can’t stand me, but you can’t do a damn thing about it."
Huangfu Zhong was speechless once again. Facing Mo Qi, who held the power of life and death over everyone’s pregnancy, he was truly powerless.
"Believe it or not, I can make you even more hopeless." A faint smile played on Mo Qi’s lips.
This wasn’t the first or second time Huangfu Zhong had wanted to kill him. Even the previous joint effort by the Immortals to target him was orchestrated by Huangfu Zhong.
So how could Mo Qi possibly let him off easy?
Huangfu Zhong’s heart clenched. A deep sense of unease rose within him, and he instinctively took a step back.
"Everyone!" Mo Qi surveyed his surroundings, pointed at Huangfu Zhong, and declared in a heavy voice, "Whoever among you can take him down today, I, Mo Qi, will provide peanuts for your entire Sub-Palace!"
"And for anyone belonging to the Huangfu Family, it’s one head for one peanut!"
"These two offers take priority over any bidding!"
The moment he said this, the members of the Huangfu Family were scared out of their wits.
Meanwhile, the eyes of the big-bellied Immortals lit up, and they stared at the members of the Huangfu Family like a pack of ravenous wolves.
One after another, tyrannical auras linked together, tacitly sealing off the entire island.
Seeing this, the nearby Pig Emperor secretly used his power to increase the suppression on the fetuses in everyone’s bellies, making the experts feel a little more at ease and allowing them to unleash more of their strength.
Huangfu Zhong’s brow was tightly furrowed. He never, ever imagined things would develop this way.
Just a quarter of an hour ago, he had been the one to stir up the Immortals’ greed for what Mo Qi had, placing Mo Qi in opposition to everyone.
But now, the situation had completely reversed. Mo Qi had given him a taste of his own medicine, turning the Huangfu Family into the public enemy instead.
Unlike Mo Qi, the two grannies, Silver Hair and Jin Hua, would not step in to help him.
Even if the Huangfu Family were wiped out here, when the Immortal Realm investigated, the various Sub-Palaces would only need to fabricate a random excuse, stick to the same story, and the matter would ultimately be dropped.
No one would stand up for his Huangfu Family.
What was he to do?
Facing the pleading gazes of his clansmen, Huangfu Zhong felt a headache coming on.
’If I had known Mo Qi was this difficult to deal with, I never would have offended him so grievously,’ he thought.
But now, it was too late for regrets.
’Do I have to reveal my identity and activate the final plan ahead of schedule?’
The thought had just arisen when Huangfu Zhong snuffed it out.
The final plan had implications far too broad and deep. Although he was an Immortal, he was just an insignificant pawn in the grand scheme of things.
If he delayed or ruined the final plan because of his own actions, his fate would be countless times more miserable than death.
Thinking of this, Huangfu Zhong cast a complicated glance at the half-dead Huangfu Yu in the Spirit Pool.
With his current strength and the means at his disposal, breaking out wouldn’t be difficult.
But Huangfu Yu just so happened to be an indispensable part of that final plan. Huangfu Zhong could abandon the others, but he could not leave Huangfu Yu behind.
But the Spirit Pool had been thrown into chaos by the Pig Emperor; those inside wouldn’t be getting out anytime soon.
Therefore, Huangfu Zhong could not flee!
"Kill!"
At that moment, the Immortals made their move.
They didn’t choose to attack Huangfu Zhong first. Instead, they began to slaughter the other members of the Huangfu Family.
Although capturing Huangfu Zhong would benefit their entire Sub-Palace, he was an Immortal, after all, and wouldn’t be so easy to defeat.
Rather than get into a bitter struggle, it was better to first harvest the heads of the other Huangfu Family members. Every peanut they could get was a peanut earned.
It was better than ending up with nothing to show for their efforts.
Although the Huangfu Family had brought many skilled experts with them, facing the siege of all the other Immortals, they could only be slaughtered.
In the blink of an eye, aside from Huangfu Zhong and Huangfu Yu in the Spirit Pool, the Huangfu Family was completely massacred.
Headless corpses were scattered about, numbering over a hundred in total.
Finally, the gazes of the Immortals focused on Huangfu Zhong.
Seeing this, Huangfu Zhong didn’t say a word. He gritted his teeth and summoned a pagoda-shaped Immortal Artifact, which enveloped him for protection.
"Break!"
The Immortals launched their attacks at the pagoda-shaped Immortal Artifact.
CLANG! CLANG! CLANG!
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
The sound of clashing metal rang out. The Treasure Tower Immortal Artifact stood unshaken, but the island beneath everyone’s feet began to tremble violently.
"Stop! We can’t keep attacking!"
A sharp-eyed expert discovered the faint flicker of firelight beneath the island.
"There’s an active volcano down there! If we keep attacking, his treasure tower might not break, but the volcano will erupt!"
