When they heard those words, the cultivators present all held their breath instinctively.
It had to be admitted—this was an enormous temptation.
Ye Xiu had already laid out every advantage of that path. Setting everything else aside, simply accelerating the refinement of Dao Laws was enough to drive ninety-nine percent of cultivators across the world utterly mad!
The importance of Dao Laws to cultivators went without saying.
The key to transcending through cultivation lay precisely in this.
"None may ascend without attaining the Dao"—it was a nursery rhyme familiar to everyone in the cultivation world.
From another angle, it also proved just how difficult refinement was.
Ye Xiu had personally acknowledged the Myriad Spider Devil Lord's abilities, and quite a few cultivators in the Alliance had calculated the relevant data and knew the results clearly.
If they could truly get a hand in this, then putting aside anything else, they could at least guarantee the future creation of a great cultivator.
Yet the price required for such a bright future was pitifully low.
In fact, for them at this moment, the price they needed to pay was not a price at all!
Just look at what the Myriad Spider Devil Lord was asking for!
He could voluntarily give up half of the spider demonic beasts as payment, so long as the Alliance cleared a path and let them descend the mountain.
And after descending the mountain, he would take his kin and leave this place as swiftly as possible. When they devoured and evolved, he would also conceal their tracks as thoroughly as he could, ensuring no one traced any of this back to the Alliance and tarnished its reputation.
Only the Alliance and the Myriad Spider Devil Lord's people were here. Heaven and earth knew but would not speak;