Chapter 475: Young Hero Archie Chu

When the Emperor made his decree, the faces of the ancestors from the four great powers turned from ashen to a deep eggplant shade. Their expressions were a spectacle of shock and disbelief. Five million Xuan Beads, though half of ten million, was still a substantial amount. They could manage it, but these were savings accumulated over nearly a thousand years by their ancestors. To hand them over would mean that the efforts of their forebears were all in vain, leaving the four great powers as empty...