Hearing Huang Hui's words, Lu Yuan looked up again at the warriors fighting for their lives in the ring and couldn't help shaking his head inwardly.
Ordinary warriors, even those who had reached the Bright Energy Realm or even the Hidden Energy Realm, could barely fill the bottomless pit of their cultivation needs except by risking their lives this way.
Even with a Life-Death Contract, winning a match would earn them no more than fifty taels.
And whether it was a serving of meat or ordinary medicinal soups like Qi-Replenishing Soup and Essence-Replenishing Soup, each portion cost three taels of silver.
As for premium resources like Rejuvenation Pills and Blood-Qi Pills, each one cost twenty or thirty taels.
Even more so for precious medicines worth a thousand gold. Ordinary warriors simply couldn't afford them.
If Lu Yuan hadn't received the Zhou Family's support earlier, he would probably have had to make a living like these ordinary warriors, either signing on with an escort agency and taking jobs on the road, or coming to the Martial Arena to gamble in the ring for a meager sum earned with his life.
Although he had come today to fight on behalf of the Zheng Family's Seventh Young Master, Zheng Shuang, he was technically earning money with his life too. But he stood to earn far more than an ordinary fighter under a Life-Death Contract.
Besides, with his current level of cultivation and strength, there was no real question of risking his life.
All he had to do was show a fraction of his strength, and he could walk away with a thousand taels in payment. He'd be a fool to turn it down.
After watching for a while, Huang Hui continued forward, with Lu Yuan following close behind.
Soon, the two of them