From the very beginning, Zhou Yao's target had not been Singh.
A Fire-Stealing Rank cultivator of the Brahmin caste did not even count as a chess piece in this game involving multiple factions. At most, he was a convenient point of entry to manipulate.
What Zhou Yao truly wanted to pry loose was the very foundation of the complete Ganges Mythology system behind Singh within Emperor Taihuang City.
Over the previous seven days, Singh had repeatedly gone to Yuntai Hotel to demand payment, each time opening his mouth like a lion. Fayan and the others had watched with mounting indignation, while Zhou Yao alone had said nothing, paying each time with crisp decisiveness.
It was not because he was generous. It was because every additional payment would raise the penalty for breaching that contract by another level.
If Singh's appetite had stopped at the initial fifty thousand Jade Capital Coins, then a thousandfold compensation would have amounted to only fifty million.
Though this sum was enormous, it was not an unbearable burden for Ganges Academy, backed as it was by the Ganges Mythology system.
Moreover, because the transaction amount had been limited, the Heavenly Dao laws it could borrow from Grand Sovereign Yellow-Tseng Heaven would likewise have been limited. Ganges Academy might have been able to use some method to forcibly void the contract.
But Singh had not stopped. Again and again, he had raised the stakes, pushing the total transaction amount to five hundred and fifty thousand Jade Capital Coins.
A thousandfold compensation: five hundred and fifty million.
What did that number mean?
Back when Zhou Yao had been at the Fujiwara Clan, Fujiwara Nanase, as the designated heir of the Lineage, had exhausted every means at her disposal and could only mobilize three million Jade Capital Coins in