Chapter 3725: Different Treatment

"Pull back!" Ye Liuyun only then recalled the mercenaries.

He let the Magic Vine rampage again, then summoned the Magic Vine back as well. Afterwards he gathered everyone into the Space World, teleported through the Black Tower, and returned to the Western Region army.

At this moment the merchant house was dead silent, the ground littered with corpses and bloodstains. The buildings had been torn to shreds by the Magic Vine, leaving no decent place.

The Imperial Guard outside the gate waited a while, then sent another squad in to scout the situation.

Only after the Imperial Guard confirmed that Ye Liuyun's people had indeed left did the Fifth Divine Son dare to enter the merchant house.

"What terms did you negotiate with them that made them agree to spare you?" the Fifth Divine Son asked as soon as he saw the merchant master. He was worried the merchants might leak their secret cooperation.

"What, does the Fifth Divine Son want all the merchants killed?" merchant master Shang Han sneered with a cold face: "No wonder the Fifth Divine Son has been staying outside, never coming in to help!"

Those words were his own thoughts, not spoken under Ye Liuyun's control. Although he also knew

But after all they had been allies before, now watching them be annihilated without any effort to help made him feel very uneasy. He also knew that such allies were merely using each other.

"When the merchant master said that, I rushed over as soon as I heard the trouble, faster than the Imperial Guard! But my strength is indeed limited; you know how formidable that Kuailei is. Even with my fortune‑protecting aura, I couldn't stop its arrow…"

The Fifth Divine Son also didn't want to provoke him at this moment and cause a rift.

"Hmph! Fine, our merchants suffering this calamity is also destiny. We'll handle our own affairs, and we ask the Fifth Divine Son to tell the Imperial Guard to go back."

Shang Han truly had no mood to deal with the Fifth Divine Son at this moment.

"Alright then? But I still want to know what deal the merchant master actually made with them?"

Shang Han, hearing that, closed his eyes and sighed: "Of course it's buying lives with money, what else could the deal be?"

He is now under Ye Liuyun's control; even if he is being controlled, he cannot speak out.

"So simple? Could the merchant master have been controlled by those people?" the Fifth Divine Son, most worried about this, probed the question,

Shang Han opened his eyes, anger flashing, and coldly said: "What? Is the Fifth Divine Son doubting us?"

"I'm just confirming…."

The Fifth Divine Son was still scheming in his mind how to get him to use Soul Search for verification.

Shang Han, under Ye Liuyun's control, retorted directly: "No need for the Fifth Divine Son to worry, we will resolve our merchant affairs ourselves."

"Well… I'm just worried, if you are controlled, our cooperation…" the Fifth Divine Son still wouldn't give up.

"Whether or not we're controlled is our own business. If the Fifth Divine Son doesn't trust us, you can go find someone else to cooperate with."

"Now that our merchants are in this great trouble, we won't keep the Fifth Divine Son; be my guest!"

Shang Han immediately gathered people, then turned and left.

At this moment, an Elder of the merchants came to advise the Fifth Divine Son: "Fifth Divine Son, now is not the time to discuss this; we still have many matters to handle.

How about you come back in a couple of days to talk with the master? He's in a bad mood now, and further pressure likely won't yield good results!"

The Fifth Divine Son thought for a moment; whether they were controlled or not, a couple of days wouldn't matter, waiting for them to slowly confirm again is the same.

"Alright then, I'll come another day!"

Saying that, he also led his men away from the merchant house.

After he left, the merchants' Elders began busy gathering manpower from their own guilds.

They arranged reconstruction of the merchant courtyard, increased guards, and other affairs.

Ye Liuyun gave them a very tight deadline for the task, and they had no time to consider other matters.

At daybreak, the Li Family sent people to the merchants, gradually taking over their merchant guild. Externally, they announced that the Xuancheng merchants had suffered huge losses and needed to sell part of the merchant guild to raise funds.

At daybreak, the Li Family dispatched people to the merchants, gradually taking over their guild. Publicly they declared that the merchants had suffered massive losses and needed to sell a portion of the guild to raise capital.

"Would this provoke others' gossip?" Li Chengfeng had previously asked Ye Liuyun, feeling that such a blatant seizure was too conspicuous.

"What are you afraid of, free stuff you don't want?" Ye Liuyun retorted.

"What if Young Master Ye's control over them gets exposed? The dynasty surely has someone who can dissolve the Master-Servant Contract." Li Chengfeng mistakenly thought the merchants had signed a Master-Servant Contract with Ye Liuyun.

Ye Liuyun merely smiled: "They would need the ability to break the contract I signed. Even if they could, if they're willing to sell and you're willing to buy, what's the problem? Or are you worried they'll take the guild back?"

"Yes, that's exactly what I'm worried about!" Li Chengfeng voiced his thoughts.

"Do they have that capability?" Ye Liuyun asked back.

"What if the God King intervenes in this matter?" Li Chengfeng asked again.

"He intervenes? If he really does, he can find an excuse even without one; why overthink it! Do what needs to be done, the loss is on me!" Ye Liuyun comforted him.

Li Chengfeng thought that too. If the God King wanted to intervene, any excuse could let him seize the entire guild that the Li Family had acquired. So overthinking now is useless.

Ye Liuyun felt that the God King would definitely not meddle in such affairs. The God King had struck him last time, and he hadn't taken revenge yet. If the God King dared to act against the Li Family's purchased guild, it would be tantamount to forcing him to mobilize troops.

But the God King currently lacks the strength to handle a large war. If his forces were sufficient, he wouldn't have let him capture three regions; he would have suppressed him long ago.

Thus, if the God King now provokes harshly, and Ye Liuyun coordinates with monsters for an inside‑out attack, this Xing Xi would be completely doomed.

But he also cannot go too far, cannot infringe too many royal interests, lest the God King recklessly battle him. Therefore both sides temporarily avoid each other, strengthening themselves before seeking another chance to clash, which is the best choice.

Sure enough, after waiting a few days, the God King remained inactive.

The Fifth Divine Son went to the merchants again, but the remaining merchants had already dispersed to various guilds; only a few people responsible for reconstruction stayed at the merchants' residence, and he saw no one at all.

When he learned the merchants were selling the guild, he also guessed those merchants were being controlled. By then, the merchants' business in the central dynasty had already been half taken over by the Li Family.

Even the few decision‑makers of the merchants had been hidden by the Li Family; he couldn't find anyone.

Meanwhile, the Meng family's guild passed through the crisis unharmed.

Meng Cangxuan took the opportunity to lecture the merchants: "You've all seen, right? If we keep opposing Young Master Ye, what will happen? This time the merchants are completely wiped out of both people and wealth! From now on everyone be a bit more awake, stop opposing Young Master Ye; he truly dares to strike." Recently the transcoding has been severe, giving us more motivation, updating faster; please click a little to exit reading mode. Thank you.