"Gulas, did you see that? That set of Stone of Immortality alchemical jewelry just now actually cost 4.5 million gold coins! And that was the cheapest Stone of Immortality alchemical item there. Our Wild Bear Tribe has done a little better these past few years—the Golden Sea Buckthorn wine we make sells well—but the entire tribe's annual income is only a bit over two million gold coins. And those other things, they were actually priced directly in elemental crystals. They did not even take gold anymore! Great Prophet Priest above, how can these people be so rich? It is making my hands itch. If only I could pull off a job..."
As he spoke, old wild bear Dali licked his lips, his pair of eyes still darting greedily around the hall, his thief's nature unchanged. Beneath that coarse gaze, beneath the curiosity and longing, was an undisguised trace of desire to plunder. Yet that desire existed only in old wild bear Dali's thoughts. It was a nature he had developed in the Ice and Snow Wilderness, one he could not change no matter where he went. Whenever he saw something good, he wanted to rely on his fists and strength to take it for himself without spending a single coin. Even in Xuanyuan Hill, he was no different. But old wild bear Dali did not dare make any real move, because a Black Iron Knight here was ordinary beyond ordinary. Even within this hall, he could sense the auras of several Earth Knights. An Earth Knight stood guard behind every bank counter. Such a sight was simply too shocking for old wild bear Dali, who had come to Xuanyuan Hill from the Ice and Snow Wilderness.
Elder Gulas and Wild Bear Tribe Chief Dali had both been invited by Golden