World-Ending Demon Emperor
Chapter 752 - 368: Hai Gang Compromises! The Kiss of Yan Chuo’er!

Chapter 752: 368: Hai Gang Compromises! The Kiss of Yan Chuo’er!

Suo Lun’s words were decisive, leaving no room for gentleness or subtlety, causing a sudden halt in Haigang’s thoughts.

He had staged such a grand performance to extort a great deal of benefit from Suo Lun using his daughter’s death.

According to the previous alliance, Suo Lun was required to give the Hai Family thirty percent of the profits from his maritime trade every month.

Now that Hai Zhier had died at the hands of Suo Lun, this share needed to be increased to at least forty-five percent. Otherwise, Haigang would completely turn against him. In his view, faced with such an ordeal, Suo Lun had no choice but to comply.

But unexpectedly, Suo Lun made a clean break of all his retreats, leaving no room for negotiation.

By his side, Hai Wuyan said, "Father, as long as Suo Lun is killed, Zhi Li His Highness will have a reward of ennoblement."

While saying these words, Hai Wuyan’s heart was filled with eagerness.

Although Haigang was moved, he looked coldly at his son, sighing deeply in his heart.

The Yan Tribe is without a doubt, two extremes.

The first extreme was an extreme respect for their traditions, taking pride in the identity of a Rock citizen. This also implied savagery and primitiveness. According to the customs of the Rock people, beautiful women were to go to the continent to choose the strongest and most valiant men to impregnate them before marrying a male of the Rock people. Such traditions were beyond the description of ignorance.

The second extreme involved completely abandoning traditions, feeling ashamed of their Yan Tribe identity, doing everything to de-Yanize themselves and striving to align with the Human Kingdom. They were extremely enthusiastic about the nobility titles of the Human Kingdom, and followed the etiquette of the human nobles even more scrupulously.

And Hai Wuyan was the latter type of person. He deeply felt the ignorance and backwardness of the Rock people, so he desperately sought to leave the past behind and actively moved closer to Zhi Li.

Zhi Li had once secretly dispatched people to promise Hai Wuyan and Yan Mo, among others, that as long as Suo Lun was killed, he would bestow a royal title as a reward.

Thus, Hai Wuyan was particularly eager to kill Suo Lun.

Yan Mo, on the other hand, was a completely different case. He still maintained the nature of a great hero, with all the characteristics of a Rock Pirate evident in him.

Crude, powerful, unreasonable, overbearing, sly!

Without a doubt, Yan Mo scoffed at Zhi Li’s promise of ennobling him.

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Stepping forward, Haigang said, "Lord Suo Lun, Zhi Li His Highness once promised that anyone who could kill you, Suo Lun, would not be stinted a reward of kingship. What are your thoughts on that?"

Suo Lun replied, "Lord Haigang, are you threatening me?"

Haigang coldly responded, "Consider it so, who told Lord Suo Lun to be so oblivious to reason?"

At this moment, Yao Xing had already neutralized all the neurotoxins in Suo Lun’s body. Suo Lun propped himself up with his hands and stood up from his chair, pointing to his face and asking, "Haigang, do you see even the slightest hint of fear on my face?"

Haigang said, "Lord Suo Lun, do you really think I wouldn’t dare to kill you?"

Suo Lun simply shrugged his shoulders, showing no interest in responding.

If Haigang were a fool, like his son Hai Wuyan who was blinded by profit, then Suo Lun would worry about his own life.

But the Haigang before him was exceptionally shrewd. Could he fail to see the pros and cons of killing Suo Lun?

If he killed Suo Lun, what could Haigang gain?

Even if Zhi Li didn’t intend to break his promise and he ascended to the throne, Haigang would internalize and become the most powerful lord of the Rage Wave Kingdom, Zhi Li breaking tradition to ennob him as a king of different surname.

Then what? Would the lands of the Hai Family have expanded by an inch?

And after being ennobled, the Hai Family would immediately become the target of everyone’s hostility. Whether it was the Turing Tuo Clan or the Yan Clan, they would all be eager to bite the Hai Family to death.

These two clans had served the Zhi Family arduously for so many years and achieved so much, yet they would have to watch the recently allied Hai Family leapfrog them to earn the royal title. In the following days, whether the Turing Clan or the Yan Clan, they would most likely strike at the Hai Family with all they got.

And if Haigang killed Suo Lun, what would he lose?

First and foremost, killing Suo Lun would primarily benefit Zhi Li, with Haigang merely gaining satisfaction but no substantial benefits.

Moreover, the most important thing was, without Suo Lun and Yan Mo to fight to the death, that bastard Yan Mo would likely immediately turn his ship’s bow to attack Yingzhou Island.

And what was most terrifying was that, despite the fact that Suo Lun and Yan Mo were currently fighting each other fiercely, as soon as Suo Lun died at the hands of the Hai Family, Queen Yan Chuo and Suo Ningbing would immediately hand over all the gunpowder to Yan Mo, and subsequently, the Hai Clan of Yingzhou Island would face catastrophic destruction.

If not for these reasons, how could Suo Lun dare to brazenly come to Yingzhou Island? Only the ignorant and vicious young girl Hai Zhier, only the profit-blinded Hai Wuyan would think of killing Suo Lun.

Haigang was incredibly clever, and given a hundred chances to reconsider, he would never kill Suo Lun, as it was completely self-destructive.

It was precisely for this reason that Suo Lun had shown no willingness to compromise.

Seeing that Suo Lun had no intention of explaining, Haigang could not help but sigh deeply in his heart.

At this moment, he profoundly felt how painful it was to face someone as smart as Suo Lun, because the other person could see through your thoughts at a glance, discerning what you would and would not do. Suo Lun agreed to certain conditions not because of your skilled negotiation, but because he was originally willing to grant them to you.

This indeed confirmed a saying, "What I give you is yours, and what I withhold, you cannot take by force."

In an instant, Haigang found himself in a very awkward and difficult situation.

If he had known it would come to this, why did it ever begin? His daughter wasn’t necessary to be sold at all.