After a long time, Hua Le said, "Tea is good tea! It's a pity that I can't drink it in the future!"

Sima Hongcheng raised his head and looked at Hua Le with a pale face, he naturally knew what Hua Le meant by this? When he borrowed money from Qingyang Palace before, he had already pressed the entire Sima family, just like a crazy gambler in the casino pressed all his belongings!

"There is still more than a month left before the return of the spirit stone!" Hua Le opened his mouth and said with a smile, "If you can't give the principal and interest together, then according to the agreement, your Sima family's ninefold thunder flame will be attributed to my Qingyang Palace, and the entire Sima family will declare its submission to my Qingyang Palace, and I hope that the master of the Sima family will do it himself!"

After that, he brushed his sleeves away, and left with the heart of Sima Hongcheng, the head of the Sima family.

This master of the distraction period sat directly on the chair, unable to come back to his senses for a long time, and after pondering for a long time, he smiled bitterly, he knew that this Sima family was smashed in his hands, and he relied on the only remaining batch of ores to earn three billion lower grade spirit stones in just over a month, it was simply a fool's dream!

"Someone!" Sima Hongcheng shouted with all his might, but he found that his voice was hoarse for some time!

It took a long time for him to adjust and roar, and the people waiting outside walked in!

"Call the elders who are still there! Immediately convene a family meeting, the Sima family is in danger!" Sima Hongcheng forcibly pulled himself together and finished saying this with his last strength, but after finishing speaking, this person seemed to have aged for dozens of years in an instant!

Soon, a group of distracted masters sat in the auditorium, and saw that Sima Hongcheng's face was extremely ugly, and he also had a bad heart, which was also right! Is it still a good thing to call them here in such a hurry?

Everyone looked at Sima Hongcheng and didn't speak, they were waiting for him to talk about what happened first, during which several people wanted to ask Sima Hongcheng what happened, but after seeing the haggard appearance, they also dispelled this idea, no matter what, the one who sat down was still the head of the family!

After a long time, Sima Hongcheng stared at the floor and said weakly, "Three caravans...... Two are gone!"

As soon as these words came out, the people present exploded, and some people kept asking what happened and why the three caravans were gone!

Sima Hongcheng told the story at this time, and after the whole story was revealed, the expressions of the people present were different, some were full of horror, some frowned, and even gloated in the corner!

For a while, all kinds of life are manifested here!

"You all know what that means!" said the Great Elder Sima You with a sigh!

"I was against this gambler......'s approach! The entire family has to pay for it!" Second Elder Sima Chen got up and roared angrily: "So in that case, although my Sima family is in decline, I will not become someone else's lackey!

"Second Elder, you can't say that!" Sima You looked at the irritable Second Elder, it was good that this person was strongly opposed to borrowing at the beginning, but if he continued like this, it would be finished sooner or later, so it was better to give it a go!

"It's all fate! It's all fate! My Sima family should be here to die!" The third elder Sima Jiannan looked pessimistic, as if he had already decided that the Sima family would be finished!

"Now is not the time for us to be pessimistic, there is still a month to go, think about how we can get these three billion back! Otherwise, the people of Qingyang Palace will definitely take away our Nine Thunder Flames!"

"But the key is that even if you work overtime now, the only raw materials in your hand are the batch that Sima Lang and his party have shipped back at the risk of death! This batch of ore has a maximum of one billion low-grade spirit stones, what should I do if there is a shortfall? There are not many spirit stones in the clan treasury!" Sima Hongcheng got up and said, his heart is in a mess now, he doesn't know what to do at all, and he doesn't know what else to do to save the Sima family!

His words can be regarded as to the point, originally full of calculations, as long as two of the three caravans can complete the task, they will have a chance to turn around, but who would have thought that the two caravans of the best spirit treasure and the worst ore are gone.

"Look...... Can you sell some of your property!" The third elder Sima Jiannan said, although this person was a little pessimistic, he was still trying to find a way to make up for the shortfall!

"The industry is almost gone......," Sima Hongcheng continued as he sat in his chair, "and there is no way to remedy it!"

The one who knows the most about the clan library is the five old Sima Yan, but he didn't have any speech, and sat alone in the corner looking at the five people who spoke expressionlessly.

"Fifth Elder!" Sima You asked, "How many spirit stones are there in the clan treasury!"

"About 300 million!" Sima Yan replied quickly, there was no expression fluctuation on his face, and only he understood how much there really was, "Even if all the clan treasury is taken out, there is still a deficit of almost 1.7 billion!

"No matter what, the Ninefold Thunder Flame must not fall into the hands of others, this is an existence that the Ancestor had taken a lot of effort to suppress!"

"If you really can't pay it back, then you won't pay it back, maybe the annihilation of these two caravans is a good thing done by Qingyang Palace, and it's not a matter of a day or two for them to covet the Nine Thunder Flames!" Second Elder Sima Chen said categorically, "Even if it's destroyed, you can't give it to them!"

"The words of the second child...... Maybe the destruction of these two caravans was really done by them!" Sima You said after seeing that everyone was silent for a long time.

"The point is that we old guys can die, and those juniors are innocent!"

At this moment, the four elders Sima Hao, who had not spoken, and the five old Sima Yan, who had only said one sentence from beginning to end, glanced at each other, and then quickly staggered, these two were a pair of brothers, and they didn't know what the two of them were thinking.

However, the small movement of the two looking at each other was seen by Sima You. It's just that the topic is extremely heavy now, and he doesn't have time to pursue the two.

After being silent for a long time, Sima Yan smiled and said, "Fight! We definitely can't beat it, but we can run! After all, our legs are long on us, and it's up to us to decide where we want to go!"

"Do you think Qingyang Palace is so stupid, would you not expect us to run? Today, Hua Le's visit has already laid eyeliner in the city, not to mention that the two families are so close, and if there is a little rumor, there will be an excuse on the other side to kill us directly!"

"Then what do you say? Now that you can't pay back the money, you can't beat if you want to, and you can't run, so what else do you think we can do?" Sima Hao got up and asked rhetorically, with a slight anger in his tone, "You are so smart, then you go and explain to them and ask him to forgive us for a few days?"

"That Qingyang Palace has long been a wolf's ambition, I desperately opposed it at the beginning, but you and Sima Hao supported it vigorously! Who knows how much of the three billion lower grade spirit stones you swallowed?"

"Are you suspecting the two of us of embezzling the clan treasury?" Sima Hao stood up and said, "The account is clear, you dare to say that! What are your intentions?"

"The three billion lower grade spirit stones are all watched by everyone with their own eyes, where do we have the opportunity to be greedy?"

"If you don't give an explanation today, don't want to get out of here!" Sima Hao is not easy to mess with, and immediately began to gather spiritual power to prepare for a fight, and the same is true for the other Sima Yan!!

"That's enough!" Sima You shouted loudly, and he stepped forward to stop this senseless farce, "What time is it now, and you still care about infighting! Do you really want to watch my Sima family surrender to Qingyang Palace like this! What about your face! Aren't you afraid of being spurned by your ancestors after death?"

"Hmph!" the three of them each snorted coldly, and finally broke up unhappily!

"This will ...... Let's go down here first, go down and think of a way!" Sima Hongcheng had already wanted to end this useless conference, he knew that even if everyone tried to discuss here, they would not come up with any good solution, "Let the group of people below go to refine Sima Lang's batch of ore, if things haven't turned around after a month, then you can pay back a little more, and then you will have more confidence to talk to those people! Also, let the group of people below use more snacks when refining weapons, and don't participate directly if you are not familiar with it!"

"That's all there is to it now!"