"I can offer top-ups, but what I need isn't ordinary gold or silver."
Li Ming spoke calmly.
Under Purple Heaven City's rules, they could obtain Dream Coupons through transfers even without topping up.
But Li Ming had cut off that channel himself, all for this moment.
"May I ask, City Lord, what must we do to use the Personal Cultivation Assistant?"
Kong Desheng already understood that Li Ming was naming his price now that he had them over a barrel, but they were in no position to bargain.
"I'll give you an exchange rate consistent with prices on the Douluo Continent, but you'll have to exchange the metals you use to forge Soul Tools.
Your expenses for the Personal Cultivation Assistant will be the same as everyone else's."
The representatives of the Seven Great Empires could not help breathing sighs of relief. That hardly counted as fleecing them; he simply accepted only precious metals for exchanges.
Although precious metals were now strategic resources for their respective nations, they still had to spend what needed spending.
But this alone could not resolve the problem they had come here to address.
"City Lord, I'd also like to know how we can get other people into Purple Heaven City!"
Someone's eyes flickered as he asked the most crucial question.
The others perked up and turned their gazes toward Li Ming.
This was the priority above all others. They urgently needed to send people into Purple Heaven City to develop their soul tool technology.
Judging by the situation on the other continent, this was no problem for the Mysterious City Lord. By a rough estimate, there were tens of thousands of Soul Masters throughout Purple Heaven City.
They did not need nearly that many, so they believed it would not be much of a