"This..."
Elder Ma froze upon hearing Meng Hongchen's words.
This wasn't right, was it?
Was this even reasonable?
He was still agonizing over what attitude, approach, and tone he should use to make this young lady nod in agreement.
Yet Ye Luochen had simply gone straight to the point, whether in attitude, approach, or tone.
He hadn't even said he wanted to borrow it or anything like that.
He had simply held out his hand and asked for it!
You have plenty of money, so let me use some.
Was that any way to ask someone for a favor?
The key was that he had actually succeeded. In less than three minutes, Meng Hongchen had scraped together a full one hundred million Gold Soul Coins for him.
What did one hundred million Gold Soul Coins even mean? Some small cities might not collect that much in taxes even over ten years.
As the highest-ranking team leader for the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy in the tournament, the maximum amount Elder Ma could command was only this figure.
Yet Ye Luochen had just held out his hand, said one sentence, and gotten his hands on one hundred million?
Most absurdly, it still wasn't over.
After Meng Hongchen said, "If it isn't enough, I'll ask my brother for more," Ye Luochen actually thought it over carefully before answering with utmost seriousness:
"Hard to say. Given how precious this thing is, it wouldn't be strange for it to sell at an even higher price."
"To be safe, you should send your brother a message and have him transfer you a little more. That way, we can make sure to secure it."
Hearing this, Meng Hongchen also thought it over carefully before nodding very seriously.
"That makes sense. I'll tell my brother right