"You!"
The veins at Rage Chief Half-Exalt's temples throbbed.
"I've already sent people to seize that wastrel. He will be severely punished!
As for the Spirit Vein losses, my Nine Nether Devil Sect is willing to compensate you tenfold!"
"Tenfold?" Xuanming Half-Exalt gave a soft laugh.
"A small Spirit Vein is worth roughly fifty thousand Spirit Stones on the market.
Tenfold makes five hundred thousand.
Fellow Daoist Rage Chief, do you think the Association lacks those five hundred thousand Spirit Stones?"
Rage Chief Half-Exalt's face turned livid.
Of course he knew the Association did not want Spirit Stones.
This was the first case—the model example.
The Association had to establish its authority.
If this were brushed aside so easily, the ban would become a joke.
"What exactly do you want?" Rage Chief Half-Exalt gritted out.
Xuanming Half-Exalt set down the Jade Slip and slowly raised three fingers.
"Three things.
First, three strands of Innate Gang Sha."
"Impossible!" Rage Chief Half-Exalt refused without hesitation.
"How precious is Innate Gang Sha? I only have four strands myself!
Three?
You might as well kill me!"
"Then forget it." Xuanming Half-Exalt made as if to rise.
"I shall report this to the Association President at once and let him decide.
Perhaps, in consideration of your position as a Half-Exalt, the President may show leniency."
Rage Chief Half-Exalt's expression shifted repeatedly.
Report it to the Association President?
There was a fifty-percent chance the President would go easy on him, considering that he was one of the Association's titans.
But there was another fifty-percent chance... that the President would make an example of him to establish authority.
He did not dare gamble.
"Two!" Rage Chief Half-Exalt squeezed out the word through clenched teeth.
"I only have two strands of Innate Gang Sha. I'll add a top-grade