Two of them each offered eighty billion spirit stones, while the other two had shallower coffers and only managed to scrape together fifty billion each.
Only a handful of top sects in the Western Province qualified to buy his demonic artifacts. The remaining factions were too poor, and with their appetites now spoiled, they simply could not be bothered with them.
After making their rounds through the Western Province, they headed straight for Chong Province.
The Eastern Region had thirty-six provinces in all.
Chun Xiaobai and the others had already worked it out: they would visit every province. Judging by their current earnings, once they finished touring all thirty-six, they would make at least five trillion spirit stones!
At the thought of that sum, all ten of them grinned from ear to ear all day long.
Even when they slept at night, they shouted in their dreams:
"One hundred billion in hush money!"
"Anything less than fifty billion is out of the question!"
Meanwhile, at the Azure Cloud Sect.
Mu Qinglan sat upon the sect master's throne, leafing through an account book. The more she read, the broader her smile grew.
In just two short months, the Azure Cloud Sect's accounts had gained over forty billion spirit stones.
"That lucky star..." Mu Qinglan set down the account book and could not help murmuring.
She had spent two whole months searching for that lucky star, yet had found not the slightest trace of him.
Who could have imagined that following the methods that fellow left behind would actually earn the sect so many spirit stones?
But that was not even the most important part.
After Chun Xiaobai stirred things up in the sect, the overall strength of the Azure Cloud Sect's disciples had increased eightfold.
Now, as disciples went out