The King Of Warriors novel (Jared Chance) novel Chapter 6703

The white-haired elder briefly summarized the argument.

"We can't agree. Some want to surrender, some want to flee, and we still haven't reached a decision."

Skylar let the explanation hang in the air before responding.

Then he looked up at the faction leaders, a cold curve touching his lips.

"One Aureon Suncrest has all of you this terrified? You're an embarrassment to the demon race."

He did not raise his voice, yet the words hit every person in the hall like a bucket of ice water.

Several faction leaders' expressions changed. Some wanted to argue, but the chill beneath Skylar's calm gaze made them swallow the words.

Skylar's next question silenced the hall.

"Aureon Suncrest put a price on demon heads. What stops us from pricing celestial heads instead?"

Silence fell.

The white-haired elder understood first. A sharp gleam flashed through his eyes.

"Young Master, you mean..."

"Spread the word immediately. Let every faction in the Twentieth Firmament know that anyone who kills a celestial cultivator and brings us the head will receive twice whatever the celestials are paying for Demonic Cultivators."

Skylar's words crashed into the room like a boulder thrown into a still lake.

"Twice?!"

"And who's supposed to pay for all those crystals?"

"The celestials are loaded. How are we supposed to outspend them?"

The hall erupted.

The white-haired elder raised a hand and quieted everyone, then looked at Skylar with concern.

"Young Master, your idea is certainly clever. An eye for an eye. But our resources in the Twentieth Firmament are limited. If we try to compete with the celestials financially, I'm afraid..."

"You don't need to worry about the crystals," Skylar said calmly. "I'll handle that. Your only job is to spread the message and make sure everyone knows killing celestial cultivators pays double."

Silence returned once more.

The faction leaders looked at one another, shock and doubt filling their eyes.

Yet no one dared question Skylar under that unwavering gaze.

The white-haired elder remained silent for a long time before slowly nodding.

"Very well. I'll arrange it immediately."

He left the hall to organize the spread of the bounty.

The counter-bounty raced from faction to faction across the Twentieth Firmament.

Before the day was out, the demons' counter-bounty had reached nearly every faction in the Twentieth Firmament.

Kill a celestial cultivator, bring the head to the demons, and receive twice the reward the celestials were offering.

That threw the entire Twentieth Firmament into chaos.

The human and beast clan cultivators who had originally hunted Demonic Cultivators for celestial golden elixirs immediately began recalculating their options.

One Demonic Cultivator's life was worth one reward. One celestial cultivator's life was worth twice as much.

Anyone could do that math.

Outside Starfall City, the human cultivators who had been hunting demons began turning their attention toward isolated celestial cultivators instead.

The same bounty hunters who had chased demons now began stalking celestial prey.

The retaliation hit before the celestials even realized the rules of the hunt had changed.

They had assumed declaring war on Demonic Cultivators would amount to little more than a massacre. They never expected the demons to retaliate in exactly the same way.

Celestial patrols outside the city began falling into ambushes. Some had their heads cut off. Some had their artifacts stolen. Others were killed openly in broad daylight.

Jared, you started the storm in the Nineteenth Firmament. I'll keep it going for you here in the Twentieth.

Just don't die too soon.

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