But now that he had spoken, High Person Flowing Cloud could hardly take his words back.
Among the remaining Guest Elders, two or three saw Lin Feng finally step forward. After hesitating for a while, they followed his lead and agreed to participate in the trial.
Perhaps they felt they should not treat High Person Flowing Cloud this way, or perhaps they had some confidence in their ability to take part in the trial.
They would not necessarily encounter the enemy's people during the trial. Bringing back the resources inside would be enough to earn merit.
They did not necessarily have to fight the enemy.
If they encountered disciples from the other two palaces, they could simply flee.
"Good! Since you elders are willing to stand firmly behind my Flowing Cloud Palace, I, Flowing Cloud, certainly won't be stingy."
As he spoke, High Person Flowing Cloud took out three thousand emperor crystals for them.
This nearly emptied both the stockpile and his personal reserves of emperor crystals.
The Guest Elders who had declined to go looked at the emperor crystals with a trace of envy.
They received only a little over a hundred emperor crystals each month as their stipend.
Those were essentially all spent sustaining their cultivation.
Without emperor crystals and the Emperor's Might in the surrounding space to cultivate with, not only would their cultivation stagnate, but a prolonged lack of nourishment from Emperor's Might could even cause it to regress.
Thus, three thousand emperor crystals were extremely precious to them as well.
After a while, everyone left.
High Person Flowing Cloud asked Lin Feng to stay behind.
He gave Lin Feng a life-saving safeguard: a bead containing an immense amount of sealed energy. Once released, it would unleash the equivalent of a strike from an early-stage Great