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The entire room instantly fell silent.

No one had anticipated that Qin Ye would demand the lives of their most elite warriors in exchange for asylum!

No one wanted to die. Everyone was trying to escape from the new continent precisely because they wanted to live, but was this fate unavoidable after all?

"Esteemed Yama-King..." The leader of the Yin spirits finally calmed down. They had been too excited before, correlating Qin Ye's arrival with their survival, but unfortunately, life simply wasn't that easy.

"Is there any other way we can compensate you?"

Qin Ye casually skimmed his fingers along the table, and the almost inaudible scratching sound immediately made everyone in the room tense up. Several seconds later, his smile faded as he replied in a cold voice, "I'm not unaware of the situation that the new continent is in. However, you're not citizens of the Cathayan Underworld, so our nation has no duty to save you. Even if Mictlantecutli and Mictetikasiwa decide to devour all of you, that is simply a part of the new continent's internal politics, and my intervention would be an act that directly interferes with the internal politics of an underworld with independent autonomy."

He paused momentarily before continuing in a firm...