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“Aren't you supposed to be the number one expert of the demon race? How come you don't even have a few Divine Stone Fragments? — You're way too poor, aren't you?”

The Bamboo Saint was speechless — What do you think Divine Stone Fragments are? Street-side cabbages?

To redeem a Dao Lord, you need ten Divine Stone Fragments!

So, just for the demon race alone, there are six or seven hundred Dao Lords here. Wouldn't that require six or seven thousand Divine Stone Fragments? — Do you know what six or seven thousand Divine Stone Fragments represent? I'm afraid the entire demon race's stockpile of Divine Stone Fragments isn't much more than that number!

Xu Ming's opening demand directly targeted the entire demon race's Divine Stone Fragments — How is that possible!

“Brother Xu Ming.” The Sword Master couldn't help but transmit his voice, “Your asking price is a bit too exaggerated…”

“Oh, is that so?” After all, Xu Ming had never seen Divine Stone Fragments before, and he didn't know how precious and rare these treasures from the Divine Realm were.

“Ahem, yes…” The Sword Master said speechlessly, “Even if all the major races emptied their stockpiles of Divine Stone Fragments, I'm afraid they wouldn't necessarily be able to gather so many…”

“Uh…” Xu Ming was a little conflicted now, “Then what kind of price should I ask for to be more appropriate?”

“Well… I'm not sure either…” The Sword Master said, “After all, a situation like yours, where you've hijacked more than 1,700 alien race Dao Lords, has never happened in the endless, long history…”

The Bamboo Saint said, “I only have ten Divine Stone Fragments on me. This was the reward for just passing the Corridor of Life and Death!”

The reward for the Dao Lord-level Corridor of Life and Death is “one Divine Stone Fragment”; while the reward for the demigod-level Corridor of Life and Death is “ten Divine Stone Fragments.”

“What? Only ten?” Xu Ming was unhappy, “Don't you carry any Divine Stone Fragments with you when you go out?”

The Bamboo Saint said speechlessly, “Who would carry Divine Stone Fragments with them for no reason…”

Xu Ming thought for a while, “That's true…”

Divine Stone Fragments are mainly used for cultivation, not for combat. Of course, no one would bring a large number of Divine Stone Fragments to venture into the Yellow Springs Mausoleum.

Xu Ming was a little depressed, “I just wanted to rob them, but I didn't expect to encounter a bunch of poor ghosts… However, you have more than a hundred alien race demigods here. Added together, you should have more than a thousand Divine Stone Fragments, right?”

“Yes!” The Bamboo Saint said readily, “As long as you release the Dao Lords of our races, we are willing to give you all the more than a thousand Divine Stone Fragments — That should be fine, right!”

If they handed over more than a thousand Divine Stone Fragments, then the only gain for the demigods of the major alien races in the Yellow Springs Mausoleum would be the three “Heaven's Chosen Tokens.”

Unexpectedly, Xu Ming shook his head without hesitation, “Of course not!”

“Xu Ming!” The Bamboo Saint said coldly, “Don't push your luck too far!”

The corners of Xu Ming's mouth curled up slightly, “Bamboo Saint, it's not that I'm pushing my luck, but… this isn't how you haggle!”

“What do you mean?”

Xu Ming continued, “The ransom I'm asking for is ten Divine Stone Fragments per Dao Lord; more than 1,700 Dao Lords, which is a total of more than 17,000 Divine Stone Fragments! But now, you're only willing to pay a little more than a thousand in ransom? — This haggling is too shameless, right?”

Brother Ming expressed that he was very dissatisfied with the ransom offered by the Bamboo Saint!

Unexpectedly, the Bamboo Saint said with a brazen face, “We only have so many Divine Stone Fragments. If you want more, we simply can't come up with them!”

The meaning of the Bamboo Saint's words can be translated as — I'm just a poor ghost, what can you do to me!

“Is that so?” Xu Ming smiled, “If Divine Stone Fragments are not enough, it doesn't matter! — Just use other treasures on you to offset the price!”

“Uh…” The Bamboo Saint was stunned — Is that okay too?

Xu Ming continued, “For example, you — Ruotong Demon!”

“Hmm?”

“I heard you have a divine artifact on you?” Xu Ming looked at Ruotong Demon, his eyes slightly narrowed, “You can completely use the divine artifact to offset the price!”

Ruotong Demon was stunned — Xu Ming was too black, wasn't he? What he had was the Demon Race's treasure, a divine artifact; it was even more precious than tens of thousands of Divine Stone Fragments!

Even if all the Dao Lords of the Demon Race died, Ruotong Demon would never hand over the divine artifact!

“Xu Ming, don't ask for the moon!” The Bamboo Saint said coldly, “Let's all show our sincerity and have a good talk about the ransom!”

“Okay!” Xu Ming restrained his playfulness and said directly, “Each of your major alien races takes out treasures worth 10,000 Divine Stone Fragments, and I will release the people!”

Ten thousand Divine Stone Fragments…

“Xu Ming, your asking price is too fierce!” The Bamboo Saint also said directly, “Our major races have fought with your human race for endless years; never, have we paid such a high price! — This time, it's also impossible!”

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“That's because… you have never been hijacked by our human race with more than 1,700 Dao Lords!”

Haggling, in short, is just mutual nonsense!

Next, Xu Ming and the demigods of the major alien races entered a “long” nonsense session.

The alien race demigods kept emphasizing — Our major alien races have never been extorted so miserably. It didn't happen before, and it can't happen now!

As for Xu Ming, he was convinced that — thousands of alien race Dao Lords are worth this price!

More than 1,700 alien race Dao Lords looked very sadly at themselves being treated as goods, being haggled over there…

In the end, Xu Ming and the alien race demigods “happily” finalized the transaction price — 8,000 Divine Stone Fragments!

At least, Xu Ming was quite happy!

Soon, the major alien races gathered 1,000 Divine Stone Fragments and a massive amount of treasures worth 7,000 Divine Stone Fragments and handed them over to Xu Ming.

And Xu Ming was also very trustworthy!

“Alright, you can leave!” Xu Ming shouted at the more than 1,700 alien race Dao Lords in the Heaven's Chosen Platform area.

The alien race Dao Lords were really feeling mixed emotions at this moment: “Finally free!”

“Oh, right!” Suddenly, Xu Ming said again.

“What's wrong?” The Bamboo Saint even shouted, “Xu Ming, do you want to go back on your word?”

“No, no, no!” Xu Ming smiled, “Brother Ming, I am trustworthy! — Since I promised to release people, I will never go back on my word; unless, someone is unwilling to leave!”

The alien race Dao Lords all thought to themselves — Who would be stupid enough to be unwilling to leave?

But immediately, the powerful figures of the alien races all felt that Xu Ming's words seemed to contain some deep meaning!

Sure enough, Xu Ming continued to smile: “I promised to let go of the Dao Lords of your major alien races! But… I don't seem to have promised to let go of the treasures on them, right? — Alright, everyone, alien race Dao Lords, leave your treasures behind, and then you can leave!”

Plucking feathers from a passing goose is Xu Ming's principle!