Chapter 1538 The Price of Exemption from Military Service

Ancestor Rong Xiao continued, "However, if you want to avoid this call, you will need to provide a lot of spirit stones."

At this time, the Ling family ancestor asked: "How many spirit stones do you need to provide?"

"You can provide spirit stones or materials equivalent to spirit stones. As for how much to provide, it depends on the individual."

After hearing this, everyone looked even more puzzled. Why did the spirit stones provided vary from person to person?

Patriarch Yunxiao explained, "After some discussion between me and Yunxiao Shuizun, the specific criteria have been initially determined. Every Divine Transformation cultivator who wishes to avoid military service must provide 100 Yuanshi-level, top-grade spirit stones."

"What? A Spiritual Transformation cultivator has to provide 100 Yuanshi-level top-grade spirit stones?! Nowadays, the total value of a Spiritual Transformation cultivator is probably less than 50 Yuanshi-level top-grade spirit stones."

"This is the result of my bargaining with Yunxiao Shuizun. Originally, he was planning to take 300 Yuanshi-level top-grade spirit stones from a Divine Transformation cultivator. However, I repeatedly explained to him that Broken Sky City is a remote place and it's not easy for cultivators to earn spirit stones. That's why I lowered the price to 100."

"You are all leaders of various factions, and you have many Divine Transformation cultivators under you. If you think you can help these Divine Transformation cultivators come up with this amount of spirit stones, you can prevent them from going to the battlefield. If you can't, then you will have no choice but to hand over these Divine Transformation cultivators and drag them to the battlefield."

At this time, the faces of several leaders of various forces were gloomy, only Zhang Xuan looked calm.

Anyway, the relationship between the Mercenary Alliance and us is just a contractual one.

It was impossible for him to help take out the 100 Yuanshi-level top-grade spirit stones needed by those Jindan monks.

As for the Divine Transformation Monks of the Mercenary Alliance, I'm afraid they can't produce it themselves.

What if I can’t get it out? I can only go to the battlefield.

Next, Elder Rongxiao continued, "This is the amount of spirit stones that a Spiritual Transformation cultivator must pay to avoid military service. A cultivator in the early stages of Void Refinement who wishes to avoid this military service will need to pay 5000 Yuanshi-level, top-grade spirit stones."

Everyone was even more shocked when they heard it.

A cultivator at the Jindan stage only has 100 pieces, while a cultivator at the early stage of Lianxu stage directly increases it to 5000 pieces of Yuanshi-level top-grade spirit stones.

How many cultivators in the early stage of Refining Void in the entire Broken Sky City can produce 5000 Yuanshi-level top-grade spirit stones?

However, what Elder Rong Xiao said next made everyone present even more desperate.

"A cultivator in the middle stage of the Void Refinement Realm needs to pay 2 Yuanshi-level top-grade spirit stones to avoid this military service. A cultivator in the late stage of the Void Refinement Realm needs to pay 5 Yuanshi-level top-grade spirit stones. A cultivator at the peak of the Void Refinement Realm needs to pay 10 Yuanshi-level top-grade spirit stones. As for a cultivator who has reached the half-step fusion stage..." Ancestor Rong Xiao glanced at Ye Xingchen, the only cultivator in Shattered Sky City who had reached the half-step fusion stage, and said, "He needs to pay 20 Yuanshi-level top-grade spirit stones. As for me, if I want to avoid this military service, I need to pay a full 100 million Yuanshi-level top-grade spirit stones."

After hearing this, everyone's faces were filled with worry.

"Is there no room for maneuver? How can we come up with so many spirit stones? I think their recruitment at the Dragon Spine Palace is fake, and they really want to use my Broken Sky City as cannon fodder on the battlefield."

"How abhorrent! It's obvious that the Dragon Spine Palace is losing the battle, but they're shifting the burden of the war to my place of independent cultivators. This is unfair."

"Their Dragon Spine Palace occupies the best location, with sixth- and seventh-tier spiritual veins, while our Broken Sky City is only located in a remote corner. Now that the war has come, they are actually using us as human shields."

"This Dragon Spine Palace is going too far. At worst, we, the independent cultivators, can just flee or surrender to the Heavenly Star Divine Realm. I wonder what the Dragon Spine Palace can do to me."

"Everyone, be quiet, everyone, be quiet," said Elder Rong Xiao. "I've thought about your plan just now, and your idea is also my idea. Some cultivators have proposed to escape, but the Dragon Spine Divine Palace has already set up a formation to prohibit them. Although the Boundless Void is vast, there is no place for them to stay if they escape, let alone breaking through the prohibition ahead and entering the Tianxing Divine Realm to surrender. Even if you can break through the prohibition by chance, I'm afraid the Tianxing Divine Realm will kill the cultivators who escape. So those cultivators who want to escape and avoid military service should not have any chances."

"As for the Dragon Spine Divine Realm, they don't completely treat us as human shields. Since the war between the two realms began, the Dragon Spine Divine Realm has lost thousands of Void Refining cultivators alone, and even seven or eight Fusion cultivators have fallen. Now the entire Dragon Spine Divine Realm has joined the war. Even the cultivators in charge of logistics are refining pills and talismans day and night. The Dragon Spine Divine Realm is more concerned about resisting the Tianxing Divine Realm than we are."

After hearing this, everyone had complicated expressions on their faces.

I didn’t expect the war between the two worlds to develop into what it is now!

Elder Rongxiao continued, "Everyone, go back and prepare. If you can produce spirit stones or supplies of their equivalent, please do so. If you can't, you will have to follow Yunxiao Shuizun into battle. Also, I remind you not to let your clansmen or sect members escape. Once a deserter is discovered, they will be captured and used as cannon fodder. If the various forces can gather together, everyone can maintain their organization and look after each other. If there are some independent cultivators, it's hard to say which unit they will be assigned to."

"What does it mean to establish a whole regiment?" asked the ancestor of the Ye family.

"The so-called whole group organization means that there are many small teams under the Realm Breaking Army. As a force in Shattered Sky City, as long as you have more than 50 Void Refining cultivators, you can form a small team. This way, everyone can keep each other company. As for the other independent cultivators, they can only leave it to fate."

"Then may I ask if Patriarch Rongxiao will participate in this war?" asked Ye Xingchen, who had been silent all the time.

Elder Rongxiao sighed and said, "Originally, I should have gone to the battlefield, but the entire Broken Sky City is in turmoil. As the lord of Broken Sky City, I really can't leave. So I had to grit my teeth and give some of my best things to Yunxiao Water Lord, barely enough to collect 100 million yuan of top-grade spirit stones."

Although Yunxiao Shuizun said that he felt sad, everyone knew that a mere 100 million yuan stone-level top-grade spirit stone would not cause any serious damage to the ancestor Rongxiao.

Moreover, as a fusion cultivator, he can avoid military service by spending 100 million yuan of top-grade spirit stones. This price is too easy.

Therefore, there must be a deal between Patriarch Rongxiao and Yunxiao Shuizun, and one of the deals is probably that Patriarch Rongxiao is required to mobilize all the cultivators in Broken Sky City to participate in this war.

Ye Xingchen, the supreme elder of Jiuyou Sect, is a half-step fusion cultivator. However, in order to advance to the half-step fusion stage, the entire Jiuyou Sect has consumed most of its resources. How easy is it to come up with 20 Yuanshi-level top-grade spirit stones?

So Ye Xingchen had to participate in this war in person.