The young man with eyes like bronze bells stiffened, slowly lowered his head, and said in a low voice,
"I wouldn't dare. It's just... I refuse to accept it. This opportunity was clearly won by our Lei Family. Why should we give it away to others for nothing?"
"Fine. Since none of you understand, I'll lay it out for you carefully. What role does this Grotto-Heaven Secret Realm truly play for our Lei Family?
All of you have entered this Grotto-Heaven Secret Realm and gained something from it. Tell me, then: how long would it take, and what price would we have to pay, to gather enough resources to pile up an Great Grandmaster?"
This was not something the young man dared to speak carelessly about. Even the several Lei Family elders did not dare to make rash claims. Their realms were merely Innate, still an immense distance from their patriarch's Grandmaster realm, let alone the Great Grandmaster realm.
Yet they understood one thing: the Great Grandmaster realm was a transcendent martial path above that of Grandmasters. If it could truly be piled up with resources, then the cost would surely have to be multiplied tenfold, or even a hundredfold. The price paid might be the same.
But if they truly had to pay ten or a hundred times the price just to produce one Great Grandmaster for the Lei Family, then what that Lei Family elder had said earlier would become reality. Relying solely on sacrifices from Lei Family bloodlines, even if they all died to the last, they might still fail to accomplish this task.
The cost was too great—so great that the Lei Family could not bear such losses.
Thus, in a short period of time, without massively expending Lei Family bloodlines, it was exceedingly difficult—nearly impossible—to