Chapter 1874: Settling It

Davis's expression was calm. However, he couldn't help but wonder if they wanted for him to repeat on purpose.

"I said that I'm willing to pay for the slap that made the Venerated Twilight Pill Emperor toothless. I said that I was willing to pay for the strike that made the Venerated Twilight Pill Emperor only have one leg, causing him to become disabled. I said that I'm willing to pay for absolving Dalila Leehan of her responsibilities and duties to the Thousand Pill Palace and the Glorious Pill Palace. Are you all clear?"

The Venerated Twilight Pill Emperor's expression became ugly when he first heard Davis's words, but it gradually faded before he smiled like an old foggy.

"Aha. If the Emperor of Death is willing to pay with assets worth fifty Peak-Level Spirit Stones, then it doesn't matter what Dalila Leehan wants to do with her life. I can assuredly say that your magnanimity compensates my Glorious Pill Palace's harmed reputation, so this matter can be closed while we'll just call it another day."

Davis blinked once.

He could see the wealth-minded mindset in this person, similar to the All-Seeing Emperor. Perhaps, this old foggy just wanted to milk more wealth from him, starting from fifty Peak-Level Spirit Stone Vein Cores. However, he slapped his face and severed his leg, causing his greed to cease overflowing.

"No! You can't do this!"

Davis became startled as he heard a crying female voice. He slowly turned to look beside and saw Dalila Leehan shedding plentiful tears as she severely trembled.

'Ah right, she...'

He totally forgot to consider her emotions and perspective in this matter, even though it was obvious that she would feel heavily indebted to him after he did something like that.

Nevertheless, he nodded his head.

"Yes, I can do this, Dalila Leehan."

"No… that wealth is yours… you can't spend it to help me like that..." Dalila Leehan sobbed as she wiped her tears, "Please… don't… make me feel more indebted to you..."

However, Davis shook his head.

"You don't need to worry about the wealth. If you're worried about returning it, then you've got plenty of years to return it to your friend Nora who wanted to save you, and there's no hurry either."

"Return it to Nora…?" Dalila Leehan looked confused.

"Yes, what I've done is a favor for my second mother. I have little to no reason to help you, Dalila Leehan. We're just acquaintances, after all."

"I… see…" Dalila Leehan couldn't help but tremble as she forced a smile, "That's… right… We were peers who once competed against each other. I'm still proud of that fact."

Dalila Leehan revealed a bright, innocent smile while tears began to flow again, but Davis didn't smile while watching it. It couldn't get any more obvious, but he could not reciprocate because there was no urge in him other than compassion, not to mention that he couldn't even console her because rumors would spread that they had an affair even though it was not the case.

In the end, it would only negatively affect her reputation but not him.

Davis turned around and sent a spatial ring to the Glorious Pill Palace. In that spatial ring were fifty Peak-Level Spirit Stone Vein Sources, which he took out and displayed its magnificence.

*Bzzz!~*

Massive undulations spread, and emotions like awe, greed, and jealousy instantly took over the millions of eyes that were present here. There were fifty transparent diamond-shaped crystals floating in the air, each fifteen feet long.

With a wave of his hands, Davis put them back into the spatial ring and unbound it, sending it towards the Venerated Sunrise Pill Emperor, who, at the very least, tried to be polite, unlike the Venerated Twilight Pill Emperor.

The Venerated Sunrise Pill Emperor looked as though he was receiving an invaluable treasure as he carefully caught the spatial ring, treating it with the utmost care before storing it inside his spatial ring amidst the drooling gazes of millions.

In fact, the pills the Glorious Pill Palace's two Pill Emperors make at the level Peak-Level Emperor Grade and above, each of them was worth that much, but they were not paid with Spirit Stone Vein Cores.

After all, how many would be able to afford to buy using Peak-Level Spirit Stone Vein Cores!?

Instead, they could only obtain Peak-Level Spirit Stone Vein Fragments, which could match the energy but not the purity. It was always like receiving ten to twenty percent of the total amount in Peak-Level Spirit Stone Vein Cores and the remaining amount in Peak-Level Spirit Stone Vein Fragments. It was always led to less purity, and hence, less value, but they had to sell what they made. Otherwise, they wouldn't be able to survive or recoup their losses.

Nevertheless, in their eyes, having gained a huge profit from a woman who wasn't even worth five Peak-Level Spirit Stone Vein Cores, they were delighted.

Even the Starnova Emperor seemed a bit envious with his eyes narrowed, feeling that even he didn't receive enough dowry from agreeing to marry Farah Lanate as it was just a bit less, although her alchemy skills were even more of a greater asset that would become only more useful with time, especially after he ascended.

Nora stood beside Dalila Leehan and comforted her. Even she didn't expect this matter to end on a huge note of having to compensate Fifty Peak-Level Spirit Stone Vein Cores, but precisely because of this, she was worried that Dalila Leehan would fail to confess.

After all, owing so much debt on top of completely feeling inferior, it would rather cause a person to stray away than try to repay it and look forward to whatever they had in mind.

With this matter concluding, Davis was about to leave when he suddenly stopped because he saw a blonde-haired woman gliding in the air towards him. She gently landed beside him, captured Dalila Leehan's hands, and left the way she came.

Davis's eyes were narrowed in confusion, but as he saw that the white-robed woman was taking her back to the Alstreim Family's seating area, he couldn't help but ask.

"Sophie, what are you doing?"

Sophie stopped while Dalila Leehan looked utterly bewildered. What was happening?

The former turned and shot a look behind.

"Davis, you can't just spend fifty Peak-Level Spirit Stone Vein Cores on a random stranger and tell them that they don't owe you anything. I don't know about the others, but I can't allow this kind of thing to happen on my watch."

"Huh?"

Davis's mouth parted as he smiled amusingly.

"Young Miss Sophie Alstreim, you can't take our top disciple away-"

"Shut up, you cowards!"

Ancestor Krane Parazen spoke when suddenly Sophie lashed out at them with an angered voice.

"Dalila Leehan was receiving so much scrutiny, and pressure but not one of you came forward to defend her. As her sect seniors and elders, you should all be ashamed!"

Her words pierced their hearts, causing their expressions to change. Even Ancestor Krane Parazen seemed stumped and red-faced, and because Sophie was the Emperor of Death's woman, even calling him Davis as though they were extremely close, he couldn't even point his finger at her in retaliation.

On the other hand, the crowd was utterly stunned again. What was going on? Was it disciple poaching or something else?

They couldn't understand!