Chapter 2381: Seized Treasure

Zu An fiddled with a simple and ancient coin in his hands. The treasure resembled a copper coin, and there were small wings around it. Some dao imprints could vaguely be sensed from it. He was a bit puzzled. Was this really the treasure from the ‘Investiture of the Gods’? But the coin he remembered was gold! Even so, the other functions were completely identical, and this was an extremely formidable treasure.

As for the Bloodmelt Demon Needles, they were the Monster Lord’s lifebound weapon. They had already been damaged when they impaled the Monster Lord’s head. Now that the Monster Lord was dead, this treasure was destroyed as well.

When the Time Scribe saw Zu An kill the Monster Lord right in front of his face and even pocket the coin, his face twitched. “Your respected self is going a bit far here, no?”

“He sent countless monsters to invade our world and brought calamity to the people. Someone like that still had evil intentions and desired our world. Isn’t my act of killing him perfectly reasonable?” Zu An calmly replied.

Ji Xiaoxi leaned against her little aunt. As she looked at that figure in the sky, her eyes were smiling. She felt as if she'd returned to that mountain on Brightmoon City’s outskirts, how he just refused to give up. Even though her big brother Zu had already changed a lot, this part was still very similar.

Pei Mianman and the others were also smiling. The Monster Lord had just been too powerful, so they'd been nervous all this time, thinking that something bad could happen to Zu An. Fortunately, Ah Zu had ended up winning in the end. This was how it always was. He was a man who continuously created miracles again and again.

Pei Mianman secretly gave the others a look. All of them looked at Ah Zu with faces brimming with adoration.

Hm? Wait, why is Principal Jiang’s face also...

But when she heard the Time Scribe speak, her attention quickly shifted.

This mysterious guy is really annoying. We could already have reunited with Ah Zu if he hadn’t suddenly appeared.

But something is a bit strange. Why didn’t I sense that this guy was dangerous at all this entire time?

This person isn’t weaker than the Monster Lord at all, and he even seems to be more mysterious...

Could it be another one of these Time Scribes’ abilities? Can they prevent others from feeling any sense of threat?

...

Compared to Pei Mianman’s joyous group, Salamay’s mood was completely grim. She'd thought that once Zu An and the Monster Lord took each other out, she could benefit in the end, but the Monster Lord had died, while Zu An didn’t seem to be that injured at all!

The Monster Lord really is trash!

She had gone through all kinds of difficulties while living under the Monster Lord’s tyrannical abuse. This was probably the first time she'd felt that the Monster Lord wasn’t strong enough.

The only hope was this so-called Time Scribe. She wanted to see if he could bring in any new variables.

“Indeed, you should kill invaders, but the Monster Lord had already agreed to sign a contract with me to become my mount, serving as my beast companion. You’ve killed a companion I’ve just obtained with great difficulty, so shouldn’t you compensate me somehow?” The Time Scribe stood with his hands behind him. They could clearly see the smile behind his mask from the side, and yet there was no amusement audible in his words at all.

Zu An chuckled and replied, “Oh? Since the Monster Lord is your mount, it’s a good thing you’re here to compensate for the destruction he caused in our world. Because of him, our world has suffered terrible consequences. Our provisions, medicines, and all sorts of ore have been exhausted unbearably. There are also the treatment funds for the injured, the relief payment for the deceased... if I total it all up, we’ll need around a hundred thousand heaven-grade ki stones. What do you think? I wonder what form of payment your respected self wishes to pay with?”

The Time Scribe was speechless.

You have successfully trolled Yuan Zhou for +666 +666 +666...

Salamay, Mojard and the others were speechless. They had never seen someone so... so shameless before!

Wait, won’t they come to us for compensation too? We're monsters too, and had some part in the invasion.

Once they thought about the tremendous amount that would be needed for compensation, they shivered all over.

The Time Scribe took a deep breath and said, “The regent must be joking; those were things that the Monster Lord did before. I only signed the agreement with him today. If you want compensation, you can head to the Monster World with his emblem of authority. There should be no one left in that underground city who can stop you. You can take whatever you wish from his treasury as compensation.”

Zu An said with a sneer, “Your respected self is quite the schemer. The Monster World has probably already been completely destroyed, so what could be left for me to take as compensation? Since you're his owner, then it’s only natural for me to seek you for compensation, right?”

The Time Scribe gave him a long look. “Everyone has already seen that he only agreed to sign a contract with me. We hadn’t truly signed anything, so I am naturally not his owner. There is no reason for me to help him compensate for the things he did then.”

Zu An replied coldly, “Then why were you asking me for compensation before?”

The Time Scribe chuckled and said, “That was nothing more than a joke. I hope that your respected self doesn’t mind it too much.”

“Is that so? But I wasn’t joking with you,” Zu An said seriously. “Everyone as already heard that you won’t ask me for compensation. So now, it’s your turn to compensate me.”

The Time Scribe was speechless. He could only say earnestly, “The two of us do not share a deep grudge and should not be enemies. There is no need for your respected self to treat me the way you treated the Monster Lord.”

“Is that so? Then who was it that tried to frame me as the killer of Manager Pi in the Monster World?” Zu An retorted with a cold smile.

The Time Scribe said with a bitter smile, “I did not know that your respectful self was impersonating Donaire. I only wished to instigate some trouble between the Monster Lord and the True Demon race so that he would have no choice but to agree to my proposal.”

The True Demon race’s elders cursed when they heard that.

This guy is just too evil!

The Time Scribe’s face twitched when he heard those curses. He was worried that Zu An would start something else and quickly said, “Regent, we can actually collaborate and enter that sealed world together. We might even be able to fight as comrades.”

“Collaborate?” Zu An sneered. “Why would I need to go to that sealed world?”

He'd already dealt with the Monster Lord, and the Monster World was also completely destroyed. The threats to the Cultivation World had already been averted. He naturally didn’t need to let more side issues arise.

The Time Scribe was stunned. He hadn’t expected this reply at all. He could only say, “Could it be that you aren’t curious about that sealed piece of history at all? History, especially a piece of history with secrets, is the most enticing thing in the world!”

“That’s your own opinion,” Zu An calmly replied. “It’s worthless to me.”

He already grasped the authority of this world. If he returned to the past, it was hard to say what could happen. The authority could be lost, to say nothing of other problems. After all, that time had the Lord of Slaughter, Monster Lord, and an army of countless monsters present. Even the Cultivation World itself had been filled with countless powerful individuals. Otherwise, they wouldn’t have had the ability to fend off the great monster army.

After a pause, he added, “And I could just kill you and then enter that world myself.”

The cunning Time Scribe had fished out the Nature Jade Plate from the Monster Lord’s corpse when Zu An was killing the Monster Lord. That alone was enough to leave Zu An furious.