"Since you want to ransom them, I'll name my price! For each candidate for the next-next-generation Floor Master Marquis, one million High-grade Spirit Crystals. It depends on how many you want to ransom!" Ye Zhen named his price bluntly.
The moment this price was announced, the rogue cultivators on Phoenix Tail Island sucked in a sharp breath.
One million High-grade Spirit Crystals per person—this price was truly exorbitant.
Among them were many Kings at the seventh or eighth level of the Palace Opening Realm. Even if they worked hard for a year without eating, drinking, or cultivating, they might not be able to save up one hundred thousand High-grade Spirit Crystals.
Many mid- to late-stage Palace Opening Realm Kings might not even accumulate one million High-grade Spirit Crystals after laboring bitterly for a century.
Of course, the sky-high price in the eyes of these rogue cultivators was not a sky-high price to the Myriad Stars Tower.
Ye Zhen's offer merely made former First Floor Master Gai Jun frown slightly.
One million High-grade Spirit Crystals per person—the Myriad Stars Tower could afford that ransom, but there were simply too many people.
Including the Ning Family martial artists who had been released and the two who had been killed earlier, there were still thirteen candidates from the other four families for the next-next-generation Floor Master Marquis in Ye Zhen's grasp.
Thirteen people meant thirteen million High-grade Spirit Crystals.
That amounted to more than a third of the Myriad Stars Tower's current assets.
After pondering for several breaths, Gai Jun looked up at Ye Zhen. "Young Hero Ye, could you..."
Before Gai Jun could finish, Ye Zhen cut him off. "If you don't have enough Spirit Crystals, that's fine. Hand over however many Spirit Crystals you have.
"I'll release people according to the