"Robbers! Bandits! Utterly shameless!"
"How dare he extort us!"
"Then let's fight him! Mobilize the army! Trample Borderless!"
"Fight? With what? He has all our elites in the palm of his hand! Besides, he controls the Primordial Ancient Path, able to attack or retreat at will! How are we supposed to fight?"
"Are we really going to hand over our clan's treasure?!"
"Otherwise what? Watch our ancestor die in there? Watch our world's elite forces be wiped out? When that happens, the other overlords will annex us without hesitation!"
"AAAAAAH! This is infuriating!"
Even the Hegemon-level Worlds were in such a state, so the advanced, intermediate, and low-level worlds were in even greater misery.
"One hundred stalks of ten-thousand-year Spirit Medicine? And an equivalent amount of ore? We couldn't gather that even if we sold our entire realm!"
"It's over, it's over! We're completely finished this time!"
"Lord of Borderless, you're too ruthless!"
They could curse all they wanted and rage all they wanted.
But in the end, not a single world dared to say no.
The Six Great Overlords in particular could not afford to lose their top combatants and elites.
After an excruciating, aggrieved, heart-wrenching struggle, along with haggling back and forth,
they had tried to substitute other treasures, but after Lu Chen ruthlessly rejected them,
the various worlds ultimately pinched their noses and admitted defeat!
Those who had to gather treasures gathered treasures, those who had to mine dug mines, and those who had to cede territory to raise funds ceded territory...
The entire District Gui was swept up in a storm of wealth redistribution because of Lu Chen's Ransom Order!
Three days later.
The entrance to the Primordial Ancient Path Secret Realm became livelier than ever.
One powerful figure after another tore through the void and