Today's second update: Chapter 1294! 2/4!
Sixth battle: Asura Race and its subordinate races—Target: 500 SSS-Rank Spirit Stones!
The moment this post went up, countless people were dumbfounded.
The human trial participants especially cried out, "Holy shit!"
So you were tearing down the east wall to patch up the west one?
Everyone knew that Xu Kun was currently a huge consumer of spirit stones. Once the Demon Slayer Decree was issued, massive amounts of funds flowed out by the minute. It was hard to imagine how one person could sustain such an enormous financial operation!
Fine, he was no longer pretending. He had laid his cards on the table!
I'm short on money, so now I'm here to rob the rich and help the poor. The question is, are you wealthy bastards willing to bleed a little?
Having taken so many main cities, their value was naturally immense. That included a main city's infrastructure, the formations arranged within it, resource nodes, major secret realms, indigenous residents, and other population resources...
In terms of value alone, even an ordinary Earth Grade main city was worth no less than 500 SSS-Rank Spirit Stones!
But some things simply could not be compared that way!
It was like fixed assets versus cash flow. Main cities could be replicated and rebuilt with other resources, but SSS-Rank Spirit Stones were strategic resources for every race. Their scarcity meant they were not circulated!
The higher one's rank, the greater the demand for such high-grade spirit stones. Take Sky Eye, who was currently in seclusion to break through. He had opened his mouth wide and demanded a huge number of SSS-Rank Spirit Stones from Xu Kun, not to fill his own coffers, but to become even stronger!
For these royal races, losing a few main cities might