Lies did not hurt people; the truth was the sharp blade.
Chen Ping's words dealt nothing short of a twelvefold critical hit to the two brothers from the Body Sect.
The reason was simple: the Body Sect really did not have that much money to throw around. They really were poor!
Had the Body Sect's finances been even a little more comfortable, they would not have gone to such lengths to raid Mingdetang in the original story.
Perhaps the Body Sect did have two or three hundred million in liquid funds, enough to secure that Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast Embryo if they went all in.
But having two or three hundred million and being able to spend two or three hundred million were two entirely different concepts!
At the Starlight Auction House's Top-Level Auction, the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy in private room two spent 150 million Gold Soul Coins on the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast Embryo. At most, they simply had not brought enough money with them and had to sell a few Soul Tools to raise the cash.
The Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect in private room six did not pay for it purely because they saw no need. They were doing perfectly well as a secluded sect; there was no need to come out and attract so much attention.
As for Shrek in private room seven, they had only passed on it because it seemed a little expensive. Buying one would swallow over half a year's tax revenue from Shrek City. It was not worth it.
Of all those private rooms, only the Body Sect in room three genuinely could not afford that Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast Embryo.
Two or three hundred million Gold Soul Coins were a drop in the ocean to the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect,