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Chapter 40 Chitchat

As Pinia awoke, she immediately realized that she was lying on the floor of a 40 square meter room. Not panicking she analyzed the situation she was in. She was fighting against the immortal and just prepared to rip him apart as the immortal suddenly formed a dao essence. After that she could not remember anything. But that was not the important thing. This immortal formed a dao essence! 

Normally only deity stage immortal would have comprehended their daos and became able to form dao essences and battle with them. But this immortal was clearly not a deity stage, otherwise he could have just frozen her using the dao of time. Meaning, that that human was able to comprehend a whole dao before even stepping into deity stage!   

After having confirmed this, she did not stand up nor opened her eyes but rather used her divine sense to check out the situation inside of it. Inside of the room she felt four people sitting together at a table and discussing something. One of them she recognized as the city lord of the city, the one that had gotten her into this state. The other ones were all female and she could not recognize them.

Pinia also checked if the talisman her master had given her was still on her body. She felt the place where it was before and… it was still there! She quickly infused her divine sense into it and send a message composed of three words. Presence Immortal Patriarch. When she wanted to check out the other treasures her master gave her to defend herself, a voice appeared in her mind.

"Are you done sending the massage?"

Pinia was shocked but then calmed down and opened her eyes. She stood up and looked at the person that just spoke in her mind. It was Zes that was sitting on the table in the salon chitchatting with Zoe, Les and Reis. He glared back at her still being as cheerful as ever. Somehow his gaze made Pinia irritated. How can he be like this the whole time? He is a fucking immortal, shouldn't he be … more serious, want revenge …. just instantly kill me? And these girls, they are also demons, I can tell from their aura. How come that they just happily chitchat with someone like this? Rather why are they still alive?

Zes could guess what Pinia was thinking right now as it was normal for most demons to think like this. For them, immortals were something dangerous they had to destroy otherwise they would be killed. He just wryly smiled.

"I can guess that you are asking yourself why I haven't killed you and why I'm living in this city of demons without just killing them all. I will tell you outright. I have no intention on seeking revenge against the whole demon race. There are some individuals I want to kill but they are only few. So you do not have to think of me as the regular immortal you are picturing in your mind, ok?"

Pinia was calmly listening to Zes. She had already found that Zes had no intention of killing her so she just wanted to know what exactly he wanted from her. But his words left some impression on her as he had accurately touched all the things she was thinking about. But she could not really believe that an immortal, even more the immortal of this world would not starve for revenge. She decided to ignore this matter and just get to the point.

"It does not matter what kind of immortal you are. What matters is what you want from me. Why haven't I been killed by you? What is your goal?"

"Oh, you’re quite lively. You were really obedient so I thought that you are more the calm type but it seems that I was wrong."

Pinia just frowned at his words but did not respond. She waited for Zes to state what exactly he wanted. Zes just exaggerated sighed.

"Ok, I will not play anymore ok. What I want is quite easy to understand. My goal is to revive humanity to its former glory and get them to somehow coexist in this realm. As for what I want form you is also easy. I want your kingdom’s cooperation. Well to be honest it will be rather your kingdom’s submission … but your clan can resume their rule so don't worry, I will not get rid of you guys."

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"You want our kingdom? Force us to submit?"

A ridiculing expression appeared at Pinia’s beautiful face.

"Do you think our kingdom is that easy to bully? You may have this formation that enables you to fight a few deities and you might even be able to defend this city but how do you intent to pressure our kingdom to the extent that we would submit to you? You cannot move this formation to the capital, can you? And if you want to get by with reason, what can you give us that would get us to submit to you?"

Zes smile did not change while she was speaking all this.

"First of all, why would I have to move the formation? I can just stay here and the elders of your clan will appear sooner or later."

Pinia laughed unbelieving.

"And why would they come here?"

"Because of you"

Her smile vanished. That was true, she had just contacted her master and told her to even bring the patriarch here. Of course they would hurry here as quickly as they can.

"Secondly, you are right that right now I'm not able to pressure your clan to the extent of their submission with just power. But have I ever said I would do that? Furthermore it's true that I cannot do it right now but if you look at the progress of my cultivation I have cultivated for a week to reach peak nascentstage starting from early nascent stage. How long do you think will it take me to reach deity stage and after that the other stages that are to come?

Lastly, I know that your clan is under pressure because of their low count of deity stage experts. The only way you can keep your kingdom right now is relying on your patriarch whose cultivation exceeds deity stage. But he is bound to ascend one day and so you hurry to raise new deity stage experts. What I can offer you is a moving formation making one deity stage expert able to go against 8 other deities. Don't you think that this is quite an offer to your kingdom? Also it does not have to be a single formation. I can make as many of them as I want so there is no actual limit."

Pinia’s expression was now very complicated. First there was disbelieve as she could not believe that Zes was able to cultivate as quickly as he had described. Next there was consent. If Zes would really offer these formations, it was likely that her clan would submit to him. It would damage their pride to have to listen to someone else’s commands but he was right. Her clan was lacking deity stage experts and they could only survive until now by relying on their patriarch. But there could always be complications, the patriarch could be injured, get some strange disease or maybe really make a break through and ascend into another realm. Because of this, her clan was always trying to increase their amount of deity stage experts as they were the ones controlling the fate of a country.

The formations Zes described would enable every single deity of her clan to fight against 8 other deities. It would make their inferiority in terms of numbers into an absolute advantage on their side.

The last thing that could be seen on her face was fright. Zes an immortal and enemy of demon was offering them a formation of such power. It meant that he could construct even more powerful ones! As for how much more powerful they were, she could not even imagine!

"Under these conditions…."

Pinia could not bring herself to end the sentence but she knew that under these conditions her clan had no other choice but to submit to Zes.

"Now we only have to wait for them to come…"