The Great Demon King shut his mouth and continued the discussion in secret.
Finally, the Great Demon King from First Cold City said, "We of First Cold City agree to end this dispute by purchasing the imperial crowns."
Afterward, the Frost Cities stated their positions one after another, expressing their willingness to buy.
Next, the cities submitted their bids in secret, one after another. These included not only the divine materials and treasures they had brought with them, but, in some cases, a city's future resources as well.
Fang Yun smiled faintly as he looked at their bids. The Ice Clan seemed harmonious, yet when bidding, none showed the slightest consideration for the other cities.
In the end, the Ice Clan of four Frost Cities successfully bid for the four Frost Lord Imperial Crowns. Only one city's Ice Clan failed, and they would join the Ice Clan of the former First Cold City.
Next, those Ice Clan members used sea shells to secretly transfer various divine materials and treasures to Fang Yun, all specialties of the Ten Cold Ancient Land.
The Ice Clan had accumulated an enormous quantity of divine materials over the generations.
What pleased Fang Yun most was not those divine materials, but the objects related to the Ancient Demons mixed among them. They would be tremendously useful in completing the History of the Ancient Demons.
The Human Race's Great Scholars took turns reading the list of treasures Fang Yun gave them and remained speechless for a long time. The sheer quantity of divine materials and treasures gained this time already rivaled everything the Human Race had obtained in the Ten Cold Ancient Land over a thousand years. Many of those divine materials could be used to strengthen mechanical constructs.
One example was ice smoke stone, which the