Hell Emperor.

Chapter 361 Ye Jie - Vote
"I beg you? Are you the one who is borrowing the money or me? Are you mistaken?"

Ye Jie's words drove Su Miao crazy. She was so angry that she glared at Ye Jie and finally turned her head away: "Forget it, make your own decision. Don't blame me for not warning you. If you take the Yin De of Yin Shang, you will definitely be in trouble in the future."

Seeing Su Miao's expression, Ye Jie couldn't help but find it a little funny. When she asked him to beg her before, her attitude was very arrogant, and it was not the expression she had now at all.

Ignoring Su Miao, Ye Jie looked at the others again: "How is it? What do you think?"

Ren Changhong pondered for a moment, and then said with some concerns: "The matter of Yangshou involves a lot of people. I think we should consider everyone's opinions and think about it carefully."

Ye Jie nodded, thinking that what she said made sense. Everyone had different attitudes towards this matter. This business itself involved taboos, so it was inevitable that some of his companions would object. So he said:

"That's right. As the hall master, I can't act arbitrarily. I have to consider everyone's opinions. In this case, let's vote and let the minority obey the majority. I'll go first. I think Yin Shang's proposal is acceptable, but the price needs to be negotiated. With this 500 million deposit, after Nan Linghe is cured, each of you can choose a martial art that you like, and I will modify it to the Wanhua level as a thank you gift for all the time."

Ye Jie's words made everyone exclaim in amazement. They all saw how powerful the Wanhua-level martial arts were.

Even the powerful beast-form user couldn't escape from the cloud-blinding effect cast by Hua Xiaomei. Under normal circumstances, it would have been impossible to do so, but it happened now. This was the terrifying aspect of a technique that reached the Wanhua level.

Now, hearing that after the transaction is completed, everyone can choose a skill to upgrade to the Wanhua level like Hua Xiaomei, it is impossible for everyone to not be tempted.

Hua Xiaomei agreed with a smile: "Of course I support Brother Jie. It is already a miracle to be able to meet Brother Jie again. What else can I ask for? No matter what Brother Jie says, I agree with him."

Li Ba also expressed his attitude: "I agree, too. Who can refuse such a good thing?"

Xie Xinyu seemed to be a little hesitant, and said: "If it is just to recycle the life span wasted by the suicide, it is not difficult to say, but from what those Yin merchants said, they want much more than that, and they plan to trade life span with people freely. This is the problem. Some poor people may sell their precious life span at a low price for a little benefit, which is not fair to them..."

Ye Jie nodded. He had naturally thought of this and confirmed, "Are you going to object?"

Xie Xinyu bit her finger, and suddenly seemed to think of something, and asked, "By the way, if someone bought a lot of life span from the Yin Merchant, wouldn't they be able to live forever and never die?"

Ye Jie pondered for a moment before speaking, "You can live forever, but you can't be immortal. Lifespan refers to the limit of the physical body. The age of a living thing cannot exceed this limit no matter what. But it is not easy to live to this limit. You will encounter countless killing disasters, fierce disasters, and calamities in your life. If you survive the disasters, your age can continue to move towards the limit, but if you don't survive the disasters, you will die directly."

After a pause, Ye Jie continued, "Not everyone can live to a full lifespan and die a natural death. Most people die halfway through their lifespan and never reach the moment of death."

Xie Xinyu's eyes lit up: "If that's the case, can I reclaim this part of my life span?"

Ye Jie shook his head helplessly: "There is no such administrative option. If you can't survive the catastrophe, your life span will be directly reduced to zero. No matter how much more you have, it will be useless. Only the life span of those who commit suicide can be recovered."

"What a pity..." Xie Xinyu sighed, "Although the technique is very good, I don't know what kind of impact this business will have on people. I choose to reserve my opinion and neither agree nor disagree."

Ye Jie nodded. Counting her result, there were already three people who agreed, one who gave up, and no one who objected.

Seeing that the situation was in Ye Jie's favor, Su Miao became anxious and quickly said, "I think..."

Ye Jie interrupted her at the right time: "I'm sorry, Fairy Miaorou, your opinion doesn't count here and I won't take it into consideration."

There was a hint of speechlessness in Ye Jie's eyes when he looked at her, as if to say, you didn't even lend me any good karma just now, how dare you talk nonsense here now.

Su Miao was annoyed, but she also knew that she couldn't persuade Ye Jie, so she looked to Shen Qingge for help: "Sister Qingge, what I said is useless, you have to say something, right? I know your words will definitely work, please persuade him quickly and let him stop the deal with the Yin merchant."

Shen Qingge frowned slightly, her expression slightly complicated, and she sighed softly: "This is an internal matter of Yama Palace, so let Ajie, the Palace Master, decide. Others should not say anything more. I have no opinion."

Having no opinion also means choosing to give up. Even Su Miao was a little dumbfounded. She didn't expect to get such an answer from Shen Qingge.

Beside Shen Qingge, Ren Changhong thought for a moment and said, "I've heard about the lifespan trade before, it's nothing new. I heard that the Northern Qinglian Palace and the Western Xuechi Palace have both promoted the lifespan trade, you're not the first, and you won't be the last. In that case, then just listen to Ajie, I agree."

After getting answers from his companions, Ye Jie looked at the maids who followed him. Their opinions were equally important.

Guazi, the head maid, stepped forward and said softly, "The maids are good at running the wine village, but they don't know much about administrative matters, so I won't comment. However, we trust Brother Jie and let him make the decision. Since Brother Jie agrees, we all agree."

Ye Jie nodded, asked for everyone's opinions, and then looked at the Star-Moon Linglong Moth that the Youdie on his shoulder had transformed into, and asked, "What about you? Do you agree with the Yangshou Trade?"

The miniature girl tilted her head, her eyes showing some confusion: "What is Yangshou?"

"...I'll just assume that you have reserved your opinion." Ye Jie said helplessly. After asking everyone's opinions one by one, Ye Jie had an answer in his mind. After a review, he said, "Including the seven maids from the wine country, there are eleven who agree, and three who reserve their opinions. Currently, Xia Wei, Li Fei'e, and Meng Junyao are staying in the human world and cannot vote, but even if they all oppose, it will not change the result. It seems that it is obvious what to do."

Seeing that the outcome was already determined, Su Miao also realized that the situation could not be changed. She stared at Ye Jie with a bit of accusatory anger in her eyes: "Are you really going to do this? As the Palace Master, you should protect the lives within your jurisdiction and maintain the balance between yin and yang. But what you did is equivalent to selling all the lives here to the Yin merchants, allowing the Yin merchants to harvest the lives of the living without doing anything, and even profiting from it!"

In response to this, Ye Jie took a deep breath and answered slowly:
"Fairy Miaorou, this is too much. I just passed a few administrative options. The Yangshou trade is handled by Yin merchants. What does it have to do with me? Besides, do you think I did all this for myself? No, it's for my family!"

At the end, Ye Jie's tone was more resolute. He stared at Su Miao without a trace of concession:
"As soon as they heard that I wanted to borrow Yin De, they were all willing to give me their Yin De, even the last bit of Yin De left for themselves, and even sold their magic weapons, crossing the line between good deeds and trading Yin De. How could I let them down? As long as I complete the transaction with the Yin Merchant, I will have billions of Yin De, and I can let them all live a good life! How can the Wanhua level of skills be enough? I want them to all have Wuji, or even higher level skills! How can you understand all that I have done?"

Thinking back on everyone's previous actions, Ye Jie felt a lot in his heart. He saw everyone's dedication to him and their trust in him. How could he let down those who believed in him?

Ye Jie also knew the consequences that the Yangshou Trade would bring to the human world, but for the sake of his family, he resolutely chose to do so. If he needed to do things that crossed the line for the sake of his family, then let him do it.

The price offered by the Yin Shang was not a few thousand or tens of thousands, or even a few hundred million, but several billion Yin De. This amount of Yin De would tempt any immortal. With this Yin De, Ye Jie could make his family live a good life and modify more and better skills.

It would be better to say that if Ye Jie was unwilling to cross the line and accept such favorable conditions because of some beliefs in his heart, then he would be irresponsible to his family!
After hearing Ye Jie's words, everyone looked at him with a hint of inexplicable emotion in their eyes.

Hua Xiaomei had tears in her eyes. If she hadn't been concerned about the presence of everyone around, she would have been unable to hold back and cried with Ye Jie. Ren Changhong smiled knowingly. It turned out that only a Ye Jie could free her long-sealed heart from the coldness. Even Shen Qingge felt an indelible touch in her heart.

Facing what Ye Jie said, Su Miao was speechless for a moment and sighed: "Forget it, you have made your own decision. I just hope you won't regret it in the future."

After saying that, Su Miao pulled Yao Yin away and wandered around other places in the hall, leaving everyone else there.

At this time, Xie Xinyu seemed a little worried and reminded: "We are all fine, but what about sister Xia Wei? With her personality, she probably won't agree, right?"

Hearing Xie Xinyu mention Xia Wei, Ye Jie couldn't help but rub his forehead, but still said: "Don't worry, I will tell her about this matter. Besides, everyone agrees, she should listen to everyone's opinions."

Hua Xiaomei looked embarrassed and worried: "I hope so, but Sister Xia Wei has an extreme temper. If she gets provoked, I'm afraid things will not go well."

Li Ba waved his hands, not worried at all: "Sister Xia Wei listens to Brother Jie the most. As long as Brother Jie advises her, she will definitely listen. You can't really betray your teacher and ancestors, right?"

Seeing that everyone had no objection, Ye Jie made the final decision and soon found Shoufa in the hall.

Shoufa was sitting in the cafeteria. He grabbed the big bowl with his fat hands, tilted his head back and drank the spiritual porridge in the bowl. He felt it was not enough, so he asked the ghost messenger in the cafeteria to add another bowl.

Beside him, empty bowls were piled up like a mountain, at least dozens of them. Even Ye Jie was a little surprised for a moment, and couldn't help laughing: "Shoufa Immortal has such a good appetite? He drank dozens of bowls of spiritual porridge and still isn't full?"

No wonder Ye Jie was so surprised. The spiritual porridge had no taste and was only enough for hungry ghosts to fill their stomachs. If one wanted to savor the deliciousness in it, he would probably be greatly disappointed. Shoufa was able to drink dozens of bowls in a row. It turned out that he had an appetite that was not that of an ordinary person.

Shoufa wiped his mouth vigorously, patted his round belly, and then said, "I can't help it. The spiritual porridge in this big dining hall is free. I have a habit of being unable to walk when I see free things. If it were placed in Qinglian Hall, the spiritual porridge would have been snatched up by the ghosts in the hall. Even if they are full, they will bring their families to continue drinking until their bellies burst. Hall Master, please don't blame me for drinking your Jinlun Hall out of money."

Ye Jie smiled and said, "How could that be? It's just some spiritual porridge, Immortal Shoufa can drink it without any worries."

Shoufa seemed to have thought of something and touched his chin. "A large dining hall... There won't be such a building in the Qinglian Palace. In the Qinglian Palace, everything is based on trade. No matter what you do, you have to do it with kindness. There is no such thing as free. Even if the spiritual porridge is poured out, it will not be distributed to poor people. But Palace Master Ye is willing to build three large dining halls, which really makes me look at him differently."

After some small talk, Ye Jie quickly got to the point: "I have thought it through regarding the Yangshou trade."

Upon hearing this, Shoufa immediately perked up, and his eyes showed a bit of urgency. It was obvious that the Yangshou trade was also a big business for him, and he could not afford to be careless. So he asked, "What has Palace Master Ye thought about this? Are you willing to accept our proposal?"

Ye Jie nodded: "Unlocking the administrative option is naturally no problem. I am willing to cooperate with you, but there is still a problem with the final profit sharing... 2 billion per year is really a bit low."

Seeing Ye Jie's statement, Shou Fa's eyes lit up, and he immediately said, "For Yin merchants, Yang Shou trade requires extraordinary costs and a lot of manpower and material resources. In addition, finding buyers is also not an easy task. Since Palace Master Ye is not satisfied with the division of the accounts, why not tell us a number so that we can evaluate it."

Ye Jie certainly wouldn't say anything when Shoufa asked him to quote. If he quoted too little, he would lose money. If he quoted too much, it would make him look like he didn't know the bottom line, which would make him suffer in the subsequent negotiations. He then said:

"I heard that the Blood Pond Palace also does the life trade? Soon, the King Kong City Ruins will be opened, and ghost officials from all over the country will gather here. Perhaps we can find a ghost official from the Blood Pond Palace to reasonably evaluate the price for us."

When Ye Jie mentioned the Blood Pond Palace, Shoufa's pupils suddenly shrank and the fat on his body trembled. He didn't know if it was Ye Jie's illusion, but he actually saw a bit of fear in Shoufa's eyes, as if he had heard some extremely terrifying news.

(End of this chapter)