Li Ming hurriedly covered herself and looked at the man while glaring daggers at him. It's not like she was shy or anything, but this world was a lot more modest and she felt weird to show too much skin.
The silver hair raised his eyebrow in 'What? Is it my fault now?' kind of gesture.
"Mr. Silver, sorry to disappoint you but you can't leave just because you want to. Both of us have a long list of topics to discuss and I am not letting you out of the mansion before I have collected my debts." Li Ming said with a cold smile.
The man looked at the girl, something was telling him that he was really unable to leave the house without her permission. The girl herself was no match to him but there was something about her that speaks danger.
He let his power loose to sweep the area and soon found exactly what he was looking for.
Around the house was a very powerful and ancient barrier and he had no idea what that thing was made of.
He tried to slowly and carefully find a way to break the barrier but after a long moment of time, he finally gave up. His powers were kind of weak at the moment and he's in no mood to spend anymore of his energy.
Looked like he had no choice but to play along. Also he really didn't mind the company of his host. The girl was actually interesting and funny.
"What are you talking about?" He asked innocently.
He had been silent for such a long time that Li Ming had nearly thought that he had gone mute.
She looked at the man and frowned. If she was not wrong then this man was the black mist like poison that she had collected from the fields. There's something... NO! Too many things fishy about this person!
"Why were you in the fields?" She finally asked after a few seconds.
"How did you take me out?" The man didn't reply to her question but rather asked one of his own.
"That's none of your business. I have my own methods and secrets. You only need to thank me for getting you out of there." Li Ming said coldly.
The man's face suddenly broke into a slight smile. "Exactly the same way, I also have my secrets which are none of your business."
Although his words were a perfect counterattack but Li Ming was not going to give up.
"But because of you, the villagers had suffered for a long time. Don't you think you owe them an apology?"
The man's lips twitched slightly at the mention of the word apology. In his entire life of thousands of years, he had never apologized to anyone.
"I didn't mean to harm anyone. It's just I didn't have any choice." He finally answered.
Li Ming looked at the man for a while and finally sighed softly. She was sure that this man was not someone normal. He could control black fire and his body was overflowing with poisons.
Also his cultivation level seemed to be too high. His identity didn't seem to be normal. It would not be a good thing for her to anger this person and end up being an eyesore. She didn't want too many enemies before she had a solid ground for herself.
She thought for a while and finally said, "Fine, let's assume that you really had no choice and if I should be truthful, then all of that actually ended up as a good thing for the Dongji village. If it had not been for you, the villagers would have never gained my curiosity and then they didn't have the golden chance that I'm giving them now."
Her words brought an actual smile on the cold face of Silver hair. But he quickly schooled his expression back to his cold one.
Li Ming looked at the man. But this time her tone was not a single bit pleasing as she said, "But what about me? What's your excuse for racking havoc in my mansion? Do you have any tiniest bit of idea that how much your antics had cost me? Those potions that you have gulped down like water were the rarest and hundreds of years old possessions that I have cherished with my life. My whole spell room now looked like a barren and vacant basement. You have looted all the previous jewels of my Spell room. Not only that but you also destroyed my millions of dollar painting!" By the end, Li Ming was fuming in anger.
If she had not been overpowered by her anger then she would have probably started crying over her loss. No one could understand her feelings. Not a single soul had any idea what or how much she had actually lost.
The man looked at the girl who was shouting in anger at him. She actually looked cute being all riled up in anger and frustration. But behind all that anger he could actually felt her sadness.
"I didn't know that those elixirs.....or potions....were actually so expensive!" He finally said with a soft tone. It was the nearest he was going to say anything to an apology.
"And that's your excuse?" Li Ming asked with surprise.
"I'll compensate you for your loss once I get back to my house." The man said in a smooth voice.
'Yeah! Like she was going to believe
that!'
Li Ming looked at the man and said while gritting her teeth, "You know what, just leave. I don't need your compensation. If you keep staying here, who knew how much more I will end up loosing. As long as I will not see you again, I think I'll be able to cope with my loss."
She didn't give him a chance to react and teleported both of them outside in the mountains.
"Here you go. Just pretend that we never met each other. You go your way and I'll go my way." Li Ming said with a coldness and teleported back inside the mansion.
The man kept staring at the place where Li Ming was standing just a few seconds ago. He had a strange expression on his face.
He kept staring at the exact place for some time and finally turned around to leave.