"What?"
The smiles on everyone's faces froze on the spot. "Twenty billion?"
Ling Tianchen was about to explain when an urgent voice suddenly rang out in the distance.
"Report!"
A disciple rushed in, flustered and panicked.
"Alliance Leader, something terrible has happened!"
"Ten thousand miles south of the Ten Thousand Sects Alliance, five sects, including the Greenwood Sect, the Red Flame Sect, and the Heavenly River Sect, have suddenly vanished together!"
"What?"
At those words, everyone's faces instantly went pale.
Lately, news of sects mysteriously disappearing had arrived every day. At first, it had happened elsewhere, but they had never imagined it would spread to the Ten Thousand Sects Alliance.
How could they let this go on?!
Those who had just been planning to haggle immediately fell silent.
Five whole sects!
Gone, just like that.
Who knew whether they would be next?
One Sect Master gritted his teeth on the spot. "Fine, fine, fine! Twenty billion it is!"
"We'll pay!"
"Right, twenty billion! Hurry up and assemble the suicide squad!"
"At worst, we'll sell a few treasures to scrape the money together. Prices in the Eastern Region have been soaring lately anyway, so treasures are worth plenty too!"
Thinking of it that way, it did not seem like such a terrible loss.
No one dared delay any longer. They took out their Voice Transmission Talismans and urged their sects to send money.
If they did not have enough spirit stones, they sold off assets.
Even treasures they could not bear to sell had to go.
Lost possessions could be bought again later; if their sects were gone, they would have nothing left.
Perhaps Ling Tianchen had kept them dangling for too long, but they were already scared out of their wits. In just one day, several thousand sects somehow scraped