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The Great Realm Palace kept a close eye on the realms that had traded away their shares and the exchanges between them. It discovered that those realms were rapidly exchanging their shares for those of other realms, over and over, until a full three thousand shares had changed hands. The whole Realm Merchant trade had been thrown into chaos.
The creatures from the other Seventy-two Realms that were trading shares were also bewildered. Where had all these extra shares suddenly come from?
Three thousand shares wasn't much to Lu Yin, but it was a considerable sum to the Great Realm Palace. Especially for Feng: the resources it had once hoped to extort, even if converted into shares, would have amounted to at most ten or so.
Ten shares was already an outrageous sum for a creature as powerful as Feng. It wasn't greedy, but Lu Yin had raised the amount straight to three thousand.
Even for the Great Realm Palace, that amount was enough to cause serious damage.
So when Feng saw Lu Yin give him three hundred shares, he panicked. He feared Lu Yin would kill him to keep him quiet.
Lu Yin kept his promise and sent him away, but left a Dao Sword inside him. If anyone tried to inspect his memories, or if he tried to betray Lu Yin, the Dao Sword would activate. Not even an Absolute Expert could stop it.
Now it all came down to what the Great Realm Palace would do.
Lu Yin spent several years converting all the shares he had acquired from the Great Realm Palace into resources. It caused quite a stir across the Realm Merchant trade network, and the Great Realm Palace kept a close eye on him the whole time.
He didn't care about the shares.