A reward of ten thousand Spirit Stones for an Emergence from Dust Stage Gu Cultivator... it was hard to say whether that price was fair, but it certainly could not be considered high.
Take Yu Meiren, the first Emergence from Dust cultivator Feng Jun had killed. His entire fortune had only amounted to a few thousand Spirit Stones. Without the Immortal-Binding Cord on him, he could practically have been called destitute. Expecting to get ten thousand Spirit Stones from killing him was basically a dream.
When ordinary cultivators killed an Emergence from Dust Adept, they would not expect less than eight thousand Spirit Stones—roughly the price of two magical artifacts.
Gu Cultivators were not only bizarre but notoriously difficult to deal with. A reward of ten thousand Spirit Stones for killing an Emergence from Dust Stage Gu Cultivator was truly not very enticing.
That was why, when the Chu Family posted the bounty, they explained the cause and effect—if they had not made it clear, Tiantong might not even have accepted the job.
That was right. The Chu Family were victims. Once someone accepted the bounty and succeeded, they would receive not only the ten thousand Spirit Stones; the Cultivation World also offered rewards for dealing with such evil figures. The reward might not be especially generous, but... Merit Points were not bad either, right?
However, after the Chu Family explained what had happened, the Ning Family of Springwatch Valley asked when they claimed the bounty: who had cured the Chu Family's Gu Cultivator?
Why ask that? Because the Ning Family also had a Gu Cultivator, currently at the Seventh Layer Qi Condensation.
The Ning Family of Springwatch Valley was also quite a substantial clan. They had once produced a Golden Core cultivator, and currently had more than ten Emergence