"The Artifact Refining Workshop is willing to contribute seventy percent of its profits, amounting to four hundred thousand top-grade Spirit Stones annually."
"The Artifact Refining Workshop does not need to provide additional tributes."
Gu Wen slightly shook his head, frightening a crowd of strong men into a pale complexion. Their representative quickly said, "Five hundred thousand, five hundred thousand top-grade Spirit Stones, I ask Yuqing Heavenly Venerate to show leniency for the sake of the Sword Master's relationship!"
If not asking for money, then it meant taking lives.
But they were just blacksmiths, earning little money and hardly harming anyone. The worst was cultivators obtaining substandard magic artifacts that malfunctioned and caused injuries.
But this did not cross the red line.
Could it be that they had unknowingly offended Yuqing Heavenly Venerate? Or was it that the other party bore a grudge from the Immortal Land era eight hundred years ago?
