At first, Ten Directions Platform did not react much. Their bounty on Feng Jun was in Mid-Grade Spirit Stones—wasn't that better than "kill one person, save one person"?
But how many people capable of doing business with Tiantong were fools? Large numbers still arrived through teleportation.
Order in Ten Directions Platform Marketplace descended into chaos. People died violent deaths from time to time; what "no fighting allowed in the marketplace" rule was left?
In fact, amid this chaos, Feng Jun's kill one, save one bounty did not have much effect—if his influence had really been that great, the Yin Sha Sect would have needed to gather at least fifty Golden Cores to kill him, not five.
The key factor... was naturally the Tiantong Merchant Alliance. Tiantong had essentially used its own reputation to back Feng Jun. A massive merchant alliance had far too much influence, and everyone knew Tiantong and Ten Directions Platform were not on good terms.
This chaos had mainly been sparked by independent cultivators—Tiantong treated independent cultivators equally, while although Ten Directions Platform also did business with them, it positioned itself as "one of the Five Platforms" and was innately arrogant.
Later events also proved that Tiantong's influence was indeed immense—many people brought Qi Refining Stage heads to Tiantong and exchanged them for Spirit Stones.
It showed that while reputation was certainly important, choosing a good platform was even more important.
In short, the chaos erupted quickly and spiraled out of control step by step. Some people even began robbing others in the marketplace.
Ten Directions Platform launched a brutal suppression, but even heavier casualties occurred during that suppression.
Simply put, cultivators who had heard of the bounty through Tiantong and dared to teleport to Ten Directions Platform were mostly bold, reckless, and powerful. Very few were