Of course, some of them paid dearly for it.
BOOM… there was a sudden muffled explosion noise and a person flew out from inside the tower and crashed on the ground. Black smoke came out from their body and blood leaked out from their seven orifices.
Fortunately, the person was still twitching indicating that they were alive; however, their cultivation was destroyed. As such, it was still too early to say whether they were fortunate or not.
The only saving grace for that person in this situation was that they were knocked unconscious and thus unaware of their condition.
It wasn't only that person more and more booms rang out inside the tower and those people that tried to bite off more than they can chew lay on the ground similarly like the first person.