The Baihua Palace Master, whose beautiful eyes glimmered with soft light and who was unparalleled in beauty, smiled charmingly and said, "Well then, with your promise, I won't be polite. Our Baihua Palace can use our centuries of accumulated talent excavation methods and teaching experience to engage in deep cooperation with your Heshenghe."

"But you know, our Baihua Palace is composed of weak girls, and if we don't have a divine artifact like the Black Blade to protect us, we wouldn't dare to act recklessly. So, why don't your Heshenghe invest with this Black Blade?"

Looking at the Baihua Palace Master, who was as beautiful as a flower and smiling sweetly.

Shen Qiang's lips curved into a smile.

Because Shen Qiang absolutely wouldn't give the Black Blade Taiyin Youying to anyone, Baihua Palace Master Weisheng Zhimei actually knew this long ago.

Now, she was bringing this up again, clearly trying to catch Shen Qiang off guard.

By proposing a demand the opponent is absolutely unlikely to accept, subsequent requests tend to become easier.

For example, when asking your family for a hundred thousand to start a business and being refused, if you then ask for a few thousand to learn a trade, the family members often agree immediately.

So the sly as a fox Baihua Palace Master, knowing the unlikelihood of agreement, still brought up this matter, naturally understanding this principle.

"Why don't we first discuss world peace?" Shen Qiang smiled as he deviated from the standard approach.

Upon hearing this, the Baihua Palace Master instantly realized Shen Qiang had seen through everything. Instead of feeling anxious or panicked, her beautiful eyes emitted a peculiar brilliance, and she instinctively drew her legs together as she spoke with glowing eyes.

"Then how about a technology exchange? Our Baihua Palace is composed of some weak girls, and they can't engage in fighting or killing, but they can stay hidden in rooms to practice alchemy. We can teach you how to train disciples and how to ensure a sect's long-term development, and you can provide alchemy techniques to our weak girls so they have a skill to rely on, allowing them to wholeheartedly assist you."

Upon hearing this from the Baihua Palace Master, Shen Qiang smiled widely: "No problem, but there are specific traditions. In the Hua Xia Cultivation World, the transmission of skills has always been from father to son, not daughter, and from father to son-in-law, not daughter-in-law. So if you want to learn alchemy, there's no problem. My Heshenghe has over three hundred Great Demons whom I regard as my kin. As long as your disciples marry them and give birth to boys, they become Heshenghe's own people, and whether they want to learn or not, I will teach them."

Instantly, the Baihua Palace Master was taken aback. Then she helplessly said, "Mr. Shen, what you said lacks sincerity; my female disciples are all white, wealthy, and beautiful. Aren't they the ones who are pampered in hand for fear of scaring them, held in the mouth for fear of melting?"

"I am full of sincerity," Shen Qiang smiled. "Our Heshenghe's Great Demons are each crafted from the mechanisms of nature, extraordinarily talented geniuses, possessing spiritual wisdom, acquainted with the yin and yang, able to fight, able to eat."

The Baihua Palace Master burst into laughter: "Speaking with you is truly exhausting. So why don't you directly tell me what Heshenghe is willing to offer in cooperation with Baihua Palace?"

Shen Qiang laughed: "The Palace Master really knows how to joke. As a Family Head, at the helm, I must look at issues from a business perspective. So before doing anything, the first thing I need to consider is not what to offer because I can't let my people go hungry and run out to pretend to be philanthropists."

"So before discussing what Heshenghe can offer, it's better to first discuss the gains. After all, people are like this: when thinking of a fish-filled warehouse, they build ponds; when thinking of a bountiful harvest, they plant trees. The same principle applies: to make Heshenghe contribute, one must first show us the prospect of a harvest for us to consider."

The Baihua Palace Master smiled, her beautiful eyes shining even brighter.

In fact, from the perspective of Baihua Palace's interests, Baihua Palace hoped more that Shen Qiang was a foolish second-generation rich, someone who loses sense and reveals all his cards when given a few nice words by a beauty.

But at this moment, observing the calm and witty Shen Qiang, who hardly left her any flaws, her beautiful eyes sparkled more than ever.

"Shen Qiang is really impressive, simple, straightforward, sharp-thinking, and clear-headed, truly a formidable opponent. From this point of view, the rise of Heshenghe is not accidental. But the more it is like this, the more unwilling I feel. This bad guy previously said something like day and night to me, but now he's shrewd like a jackal. Is it that I don't have enough charm? Hmm, I don't believe it."

Thinking this in her heart, the Baihua Palace Master charmingly smiled before playing her trump card, saying with a smile: "Look across the cultivation world; our Baihua Palace has the most disciples, distributed widely, including many exceptionally talented chosen girls, all thanks to the teaching methods we have accumulated over a thousand years."

"If Heshenghe wants to persist through generations and build a millennium foundation, then our experience can bring Heshenghe an endless supply of disciples."

"So I think now that you have seen the harvest, perhaps it's time to consider contributing something for Baihua Palace."

Shen Qiang laughed, taking a bite of his food calmly.

Then he leaned back in his chair, smiling as he looked at the confidently proud Baihua Palace Master: "I actually always thought you were a very smart woman, I thought you could really understand what I want, but listening to your words just now, I suddenly feel I somewhat overestimated you."

The Baihua Palace Master froze.

Seeing her astonished gaze, Shen Qiang smiled: "Do you know how I rose?" Shen Qiang answered his own question, turning the wine glass with his hand, smiling: "The King of Demons. First, I became the legendary King of Demons, then the demons came to me, and thus, now there is Heshenghe."

Leaning slightly forward, Shen Qiang earnestly looked at the Baihua Palace Master and said: "Therefore, the one who truly wants to recruit and cultivate a large number of cultivation disciple talents is actually the wish of my CEO Shen Bian, because he is ambitious, wants to prove himself, and overthrow me."

"And he can't control those demons, so he can only make his scheme on cultivation practitioners. That's why he spins a grand narrative of a millennium foundation for me, proposing cooperation with you to dig out a large number of talents."

"I even once thought that this was the future of Heshenghe, the path of Heshenghe's development."

"But suddenly one day, as I was leaving Heshenghe's Mountain Villa, a black crow stood on a wooden stake outside the gates in a snowy day, looking at me with eyes of admiration. I stopped the car, and it didn't fly away. I lowered the car window and asked it, do you want to join Heshenghe?"

"It became very excited, so I told it to go accompany the rabbit spirit responsible for picking up trash and cleaning weeds in the back hills. It happily went, and for more than ten days, because it knew I didn't like its noise, it didn't call once."

Gazing seriously at the astonished Baihua Palace Master, Shen Qiang smiled: "So the true core of Heshenghe is the straightforward demons who are solely loyal to me, not the cunning cultivation practitioners."

"So actually, I really wish for the negotiations between Heshenghe and Baihua Palace to break down so that Shen Bian, with his grand ambition ultimately unfulfilled and devoid of fresh blood for strategic layout, will express an interestingly disappointed expression."

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