Jin Yu Bin looked no older than forty.
He had once been the youngest of the Jin Yuan City brothers, full of ambition and energy, possessing the pride of the upper class and the arrogance of a master-level cultivator.
Upon seeing Qin Ye Xuan enter, Jin Yu Bin put down his wine glass and took off his custom-made watch. The quiet hall was filled with the sound of ticking.
"Hello, I'm Secretary Qin," Qin Ye Xuan said with a smile.
Jin Yu Bin tapped his watch. "You have three minutes to convince me!"
Good, straight to the point. Qin Ye Xuan liked it.
He sat down unceremoniously opposite Jin Yu Bin and reached for the steak plate.
His subordinates, who were all around, were furious and moved forward.
Jin Yu Bin waved his hand gently. "Don't be so stingy, you brats. Let him eat!"
Qin Ye Xuan wolfed down the food, not using a knife and fork, but eating directly with his hands.
If his friends from Da Xia had seen him like this before, they would have been stunned.
The once elegant, composed Qin Ye Xuan, who was as handsome as he was when he killed people, was now completely changed, no different from a beggar.
After finishing a plate of beef, Qin Ye Xuan wiped his mouth with the sleeve of his newly changed suit and got straight to the point. "Let's join forces to take down Jin Jun Xiu. I'll give you both floors of Jin Ji Hao's property, giving you ownership from the 40th floor upwards. Ten floors of influence, plus four cultivation squads, and your strength would be comparable to Jin Tai Heng's."
Jin Yu Bin's eyes flickered. "Heh heh, it should be five squads. Jin Ji Hao's Seventh Squad, my Eighth and Ninth Squads, and Jin Jun Xiu's Fifth and Sixth Squads."
Qin Ye Xuan shrugged. "I need to pick one squad to protect Miss Jin Gao Xi. Don't worry, not too many people. I've already chosen the captain. All female cultivators."
Jin Yu Bin looked at his subordinates to his left and right. "Ha, you guys hear that? What a tempting offer. But I believe there's no such thing as a free lunch. Taking down Jin Jun Xiu? You actually have the nerve to say it."
Qin Ye Xuan picked up his wine glass and gulped down the 1982 Lafite as if he were drinking water.
Jin Yu Bin frowned, looking somewhat pained.
Qin Ye Xuan put down the glass. "Listen, Jin Jun Xiu is an idiot. His talent is nowhere near yours. The only reason he's the second-in-command of the conglomerate is because of his two squad captains."
Jin Yu Bin admitted this.
Jin Jun Xiu was an absolute ignoramus, but his two loyal subordinates were incredibly powerful. Especially Song Ji Yuan, the captain of the Fifth Squad, who was already at the Grandmaster level.
A Grandmaster cultivator could sometimes crush an entire squad.
Why confront such an opponent head-on? Wasn't that foolish?
So Jin Yu Bin tapped the table. "Two minutes have passed, and you haven't convinced me yet."
Qin Ye Xuan took another plate of beef. "Within three days, I'll bring you Song Ji Yuan's head. Jin Jun Xiu will lose his Grandmaster captain."
Jin Yu Bin's breathing quickened.
He couldn't help but be moved by such an offer.
More than three minutes had passed, and he was still lost in thought.
Finally, he looked up and asked, "What are your conditions?"
Qin Ye Xuan smiled. "After we succeed, you must help Jin Gao Xi deal with Jin Tai Heng."
Jin Yu Bin chuckled. "You don't need to tell me. If I control ten floors and the four major squads, Jin Tai Heng will come looking for me. What I want to know is, do you have any other conditions?"
This was an intelligent person.
Qin Ye Xuan said calmly, "I want a document from your safe, some photos from the Long Chuan base."
Jin Yu Bin froze, then burst into laughter. "Just that? I don't care about that piece of paper at all. Heh, if you're so capable, why don't you just rob me directly?"
Qin Ye Xuan shook his head. "I know your safe has been modified and refined. Only you can open it. Otherwise, it will instantly explode into pieces."
Jin Yu Bin's expression changed. This was his biggest secret.
But he quickly regained his composure, his eyes flashing. "I admire you. Why don't you come work for me?"
Qin Ye Xuan remained silent.
Jin Yu Bin laughed heartily. "Such loyalty! Alright, I'll give you the document now as a deposit. If you don't bring me Song Ji Yuan's head in three days, I'll kill Jin Gao Xi!"
He stood up and went into a secret room. After a long while, he emerged carrying a document.
It was full of photos.
Qin Ye Xuan took the file and left.
After he left, Jin Yu Bin's subordinates surrounded him. "Boss, there's something wrong with that kid. He actually bragged about killing Song Ji Yuan. If Song Ji Yuan were that easy to kill, we would have acted long ago."
Jin Yu Bin snorted. "All of you shut up! How did Jin Ji Hao die? His two core subordinates were wiped out in less than half an hour! That guy just now came from Da Xia. Do you understand? He might be a top expert who cultivated from the old era."
The subordinates frowned. "Then how do we control him in the future?"
"We don't need to control him. Controlling Jin Gao Xi is enough. It's obvious that this guy only cares about Jin Gao Xi and Jin Gao Yue, the siblings."
Jin Yu Bin was ambitious. "Prepare everything. If, by any chance, he really kills Song Ji Yuan, we'll immediately attack the 45th floor! We can't let that old bastard Jin Tai Heng get ahead of us."
The subordinates immediately perked up and began to make plans.
No one noticed that on the windowsill, a lazy little cat was lying there, listening to all their conversation and then relaying it to Qin Ye Xuan in a special way.
Qin Ye Xuan returned to the top floor and retrieved Assistant En's apartment key.
He went to the apartment, which looked simple but was luxuriously decorated inside, and entered Assistant En's boudoir.
Here, Fo Lian had changed into clean clothes and was combing her hair after a bath.
Qin Ye Xuan put down the document, frowned, and opened it, looking at the photos one by one.
Suddenly, his eyes trembled. A familiar figure appeared in photo number 18.
"It's Ming Yue..."
Su Ming Yue was shown in a laboratory at the Long Chuan base, examining something on a test bench with a group of foreign experts.
"Ming Yue is already a Grandmaster of the National Medical Dao. She must have been ordered to investigate this hand. So, is she cooperating, or did she disguise her identity to infiltrate?"
Qin Ye Xuan's thoughts raced as he continued to look at the photos.
"Wait, what is that thing?"
"The biggest secret of the Long Chuan base, a mysterious treasure?"
Fo Lian stood behind him, watching intently.
Soon, Qin Ye Xuan flipped to photo number 25.
Fo Lian's breath hitched as she saw a hand.
On the experimental table in the base was a huge, scaly, green palm!
This palm was incredibly strange.
It was over four meters tall and three meters wide, like a giant's palm model.
The scales on it shimmered with a strange light, while the green skin was smooth and fresh.
It didn't look like a dead person's hand; it was more like something alive.
"What the hell is this?" Fo Lian was stunned.
Qin Ye Xuan's expression turned grim. "This is the body of Pangu!"