Chapter 790

Zhao Chi shook his head: "No, bring me the thing, and I'll release you. If not, I'll make sure your 2 points of obedience go up to 5."

Gu Qing pinched the needle and smiled as she looked at Hillier.

Hillier finally eased her tone: "I'm covered in filth. Bathing is also so I can condense my racial bloodline more smoothly."

"Racial bloodline?"

Zhao Chi was very sensitive to that term.

"Yes, a primordial elf's racial bloodline — it should be worth well over 500 gold coins, right?"

"Primordial bloodline? Exactly right! Way more than 500 gold coins! So you had something like this all along? Why didn't you say so earlier? Looks like your system space is still hiding good stuff."

Hillier shook her head and said: "Didn't you hear what I said? I mean to condense a racial bloodline, not that I already have one in my system space."

Gu Qing threatened: "Watch your attitude, little elf."

"Hmph…" Hillier didn't dare say more.

Zhao Chi asked doubtfully: "Condense a racial bloodline? That can't be right? Only a Bloodline Lord can do that — you can't possibly be a high elf's Bloodline Lord, can you?"

"Hmph, truly an ignorant commoner…"

Hillier got halfway through her sentence and caught Gu Qing's eyes.

She quickly shut her mouth and patiently explained: "Besides a Bloodline Lord, a Bloodline Inheritor can do it too."

Zhao Chi was completely baffled.

He said in disbelief: "No way? You're a high elf's Holy Maiden? You?"

Hillier said angrily: "What's wrong with me? Why couldn't I be? You… hmph!"

Clearly she had just been about to say something offensive again.

But seeing Gu Qing's needle, she shut her mouth once more.

An elf's organizational structure is different from a human's.

Among the elven tribes, the one with the greatest authority is the Grand Elder.

The Grand Elder isn't necessarily the strongest in power, but is always the one with the highest prestige.

After all, the Grand Elder's duty is to lead the entire tribe's development, to unite everyone's hearts — not to fight.

The Grand Elder's inheritor is the tribe's Holy Son or Holy Maiden, and must also possess this quality.

But this Hillier…

Clearly sharp-tongued, arrogant, overweening, and ignorant.

Where does she look even a little like an elven Holy Maiden? She looks completely spoiled.

Being spoiled, though, does suggest her family is quite wealthy.

Hillier said: "I don't need to explain myself to you, but as long as I can condense a racial bloodline, it'll leave you with nothing to say!"

Zhao Chi nodded.

He certainly didn't care about any of that.

After all, elven noble families, like human noble families, are numerous.

She was merely her own family's Bloodline Inheritor, not the Bloodline Inheritor of the entire elven species.

Maybe Hillier's family is just that sort of style…

But as long as he can obtain a primordial elf racial bloodline, everything else doesn't matter.

"Fine, then go ahead and condense it."

"How can I condense it now? First prepare me clean clothes and hot water — I need to wash my body first!"

Zhao Chi said to Gu Qing: "Take her to the bathhouse in the lord's manor, then boil a bucket of hot water for her and let her bathe in the lord's manor."

Gu Qing asked: "She's someone from the Greater World — could she secretly contact the outside and cause trouble?"

Zhao Chi shook his head: "It's fine. She doesn't know the coordinates, and Shengshucheng is extremely far from here. No problem."

Gu Qing nodded: "That's good. And from the data, she's also very weak — there's really no danger."

"I'm weak?" Hillier's small mouth fell slightly open.

But since it was Gu Qing who said it, she didn't dare retort.

Zhao Chi couldn't help asking: "If you're so weak, why did you come here to negotiate a deal? Did someone come with you?"

Hillier's expression dimmed at those words.

She said sorrowfully: "I came with Elder Silas. The Elder said he'd bring me to see the world, but he was ambushed and died in battle…"

Zhao Chi said: "Understood. Once you give me the racial bloodline, I'll let you go. It is a primordial bloodline, right?"

Hillier said: "Of course it's a primordial bloodline, but what I can give you is only a bloodline sprout — it takes time for it to slowly grow."

"A sprout? Then how long until it finishes growing?"

"You really are knowledge-poor. Water it with spiritual power every day — ten-odd days at the shortest, one month at the longest."

That amount of time wasn't long.

But Zhao Chi had never heard of such a thing as a bloodline sprout.

"You're not trying to trick me, are you?"

"There's information on the bloodline sprout — you can just look at it yourself when the time comes, can't you?"

"Good, then after you bathe, you can start condensing, right?"

"Yes."

What an unexpected gain.

If he could truly obtain a primordial elf's bloodline, he could break it down into many different kinds of genes.

Although he'd still need to wait for the sprout to grow, the time wasn't long at all — perfectly acceptable.

And an ordinary elf's bloodline alone could sell for 400–500 gold coins.

A primordial elf bloodline could be worth several times more.

Even just releasing them would be well worth it.

If elf assistance is needed in battle, they can simply be bought later.

Although Zhao Chi could also choose not to keep his promise and continue to enslave them.

But Zhao Chi did not want to do that.

"Alright, come out. Follow her to the lord's residence to bathe, then condense your spirit core as soon as possible, and you'll be able to leave sooner."

Hillier nodded, looking at Gu Qing with a hint of fear.

Gu Qing snorted: "Wouldn't it have been better to be obedient from the start? Then you wouldn't have had to suffer physical pain. Come with me."

Hillier dragged her damp skirt, following Gu Qing step by step toward the lord's residence.

Since he was going to release her, Zhao Chi didn't want to reveal the information about the Carefree Spring.

Then let her bathe in the bathroom.

Moreover, Hillier and all these female elves were in Taoyuan Village, so they had no idea about the information on Penglai Village, nor the feathered ox information just obtained.

Truly releasing them wouldn't cause any information leaks.

Before long, the hot water boiled.

Gu Qing even specifically had the female soldiers bring cleaning supplies.

But Hillier was very disdainful.

"What are all these? Do you normally use these inferior products?"

Gu Qing said: "If you don't want to use them, you don't have to. We use this kind of product, and our skin is still smooth without any problems."

"Hmph, how smooth can human skin be? That's because you've never seen the noble women of our elves. We need the finest, most skin-friendly cleaning supplies."

Gu Qing rolled up her clothes, revealing a snow-white, smooth, tender arm: "What are you talking about?"

Hillier looked at her arm in surprise: "Your face is so white, isn't it covered with cosmetics? Your whole body is like this?"

Gu Qing snorted: "Of course."

"Oh... you must be a special human subspecies too, right? I see the women in your territory all look quite good, I didn't expect their figures and skin to be this nice too. Are you a subspecies of women specifically used to entertain human males?"

"Don't talk nonsense." Gu Qing glared at her.

Hillier asked: "Why are you angry? Subspecies aren't necessarily inferior; we are also a subspecies among elves... Why am I even telling you this? Forget it, I want to take a bath."

Gu Qing didn't know what to say.

She wasn't angry because of the subspecies remark.

Hillier seemed rather naive in some respects.

Gu Qing pointed at the female soldiers beside her: "I and they need to watch over you together. We're all women, you shouldn't mind, right?"

Hillier laughed: "What's there to mind? When I bathe at home, I also have over a dozen maids attending me."