Li Qiming truly could not think of any reason, but Hong Yihu had specifically told him not to bother giving one. Even without a reason, he was to make things difficult for these two.
Li Qiming did not know exactly how these two had offended his elder brother either. He could only say coldly, "A reason? There is no reason. Are you handing them over or not?"
Ye Xueru immediately panicked.
Where would they get so many divine stones? Even if they had them, they could not possibly empty their coffers and hand over that many divine stones.
"Why should we? Brother Li, spare others when you can, for someday you may need mercy yourself. We agreed to pay you ten thousand divine stones every month, yet you still want us to hand over more now. You are pushing us too far." Ye Xueru shouted, "We are not people who only know how to bully the weak and fear the strong. If you truly drive us into a corner, do not think you will come away unscathed!"
Once she finished speaking, quite a few new disciples gathered around to watch.
They had all heard about this matter. The moment they heard that three hundred thousand divine stones were to be handed over, they became flustered. No one was willing to fork over that many divine stones in one go.
Seeing so many people gathering around, Li Qiming knew this would become troublesome and paced back and forth.
He knew that unless he explained things to the others, this matter would be difficult to settle.
"This has nothing to do with you. Only those two need to hand over three hundred thousand divine stones!" Li Qiming immediately said.
Once those words were spoken, the other onlookers all breathed a long sigh