Death... and me

Chapter 3156: The Bottle

Rean and Kentucky went to another place, while Roan returned to the Celestial Soul Dimensional Realm. With his exit settled somewhere else, he didn't need to stay outside anymore and resumed his cultivation.

Things played as Rean said they would. Another Salamander appeared a few hours later in that location, a Stage Eight one. He wasn't alone, though. He was followed by a small group with Stage Five to Stage Seven Salamanders.

Seeing that, Kentucky couldn't help but wonder. "Could it be they came with the intention of -catching us?"

Rean immediately corrected him. "There is no way they intend to do such a thing. Did you forget? We easily escaped Transition Realm Salamanders, so why would this small and weaker group be capable of catching us? Besides, they also know how I defeated that Stage Eight lava Rock Golem Spirit. If this guy brought more Salamanders..."

The Salamander quickly landed together with his group. Some were female, others were male. Then, he spoke for them. "I'm here, as we agreed. However, I also want the same fix to be done to my family."

"As I thought," Rean smiled and nodded. "The Stage you are in defines how much blood you need to give. Jruntu, you are at Stage Six, so I want eighty liters of blood. It's twenty liters less each Stage below."

Jruntu, who was obviously the Salamander Rean had talked back in the Salamanders' nest, didn't like what he heard. "Aren't you being asking way too much?"

"Dad, we truly shouldn't be doing this!" One of the Salamanders behind Jruntu came forward, looking at Rean with hostility. "We have Dragon Bloodline! This is disgraceful!"

"Shut up!" Jruntu didn't want to hear it, though. "You say that because you didn't see what happened to Ambrisio and Gwart after they took the treatment. Swallow your pride and accept

it."

Rean could easily see that Jruntu's family didn't seem very willing to perform the trade, so he intervened. ""What's your name, kid?"

Jruntu's son narrowed his eyes. Kid? He was already over a hundred years old. Nonetheless, he answered. "Herfin."

Rean continued from there. "Okay, Herfin. Come over here and let me work on you first. If you don't like what you see, I can remove the treatment, and you don't need to pay anything. That way, you can keep your pride. How about that?"

Herfin snorted. "And who said I would allow you to undo what you did after you are finished?"

Rean shrugged and pointed at Jruntu and the rest of his family. "Me? I don't need to do anything. It's just that Jruntu and the others can forget about ever receiving the same treatment as you. Are you truly willing to be the reason for their downfall?"

"This..." Herfin looked at his parents and siblings. "Hmph! I just need to have the treatment undone, right? Okay, show me if this conflict fix is all that good."

Rean nodded and performed the treatment. Herfin was still at Stage Five, so he couldn't even take Humanoid Form yet. Nonetheless, the conflict was the same for everyone. It's just that it was more impairing the higher your cultivation.

A few minutes later, Rean finished the treatment. "Alright. You probably can already tell the difference, but why don't you give it a try against your siblings? Let's see if you will want me to go back on your treatment."

Indeed, Herfin already could tell the difference, and he was only at Stage Five. He looked at his sister, who was older but also at Stage Five. The two were pretty much evenly matched at this point. The two quickly rose to the skies and fought there for the next few minutes... No, that was not a fight at all. Without anything impairing Herfin anymore, he completely trashed his sister once her conflict began to flare up due to the use of her bloodline.

When the two came back down, Rean approached Herfin. "Well, time to make you go back to what you were. The Dragonkin Races pride must never be sullied just for the sake of a little extra gain in strength, right?"

Herfin trembled all over, and his body moved almost by instinct, jumping far, far away from Rean. "Wa-Wait! We can talk things through..."

Jruntu's family was obviously convinced by now, while Jruntu didn't find it the least bit surprising. He only had the chance to see it, but his son was able to experience the change. If Jruntu was convinced by just seeing, let alone Herfin, who tested it. "Shut up before you make us lose even more face. This guy refused a lifetime of Spirit Stones from our Lava Pristine Salamander Race for his services. He only cared about our blood. There is nothing else you can offer that he will be interested in. Just give him your blood."

Herfin truly loved the change and already heard from his father that this might be a permanent solution. Yet, the idea of giving his blood still felt wrong... Of course, the gains far surpassed the losses. His pride definitely wasn't worth this much. But... he had an ace up his sleeve. "You would be interested in getting this instead?"

Herfin didn't give Rean the time to refuse and took out an item from his Spatial Ring, a bottle with a liquid of great freezing power. Of course, Rean was ready to refuse anything Herfin could bring out. What could he offer that would catch Rean's attention? Too bad Rean was wrong. The moment his eyes saw it, his eyes lit up.

*Zush!*

Rean disappeared for a moment before reappearing again. This time, however, he already had Herfin's item in his hand.

The Salamanders saw that and found it hard to believe. How can that Stage Six Demon Beast be so fast? Even Jruntu would have a hard time keeping up with Rean, and Jruntu is at Stage

Eight.

Rean ignored their attention, though. He was quite happy to have found it here. 'Hey, Roan, look! We got the item to use in our next Starlight Body Breakthrough.'

It was the Freezing Star Liquid. Although the twins weren't bound to a specific item to increase their Starlight Bodies' Grade anymore, having the original one would definitely

work.

Finally, Rean nodded at Herfin. "I accept your trade."