Ling Family headquarters, the Pill Hall.

Ling Yuzhu, dressed in a gown as white as snow, stood at the entrance. With her gracefully curved, dark brows and an air of scholarly intelligence, she gazed up at the azure Celestial Vault with her bright, beautiful eyes.

Standing beside her was Qin Yun, whose features were bewitching. Dressed in a palace gown as black as ink, her jade-like face held a vulpine charm as she asked with a lovely smile:

"Sister, have you noticed anything?"

Ling Yuzhu smiled and withdrew her gaze, her voice soft and smooth as she replied:

"Nothing much. It's just that the fortune of our Changqing Continent seems to have grown much stronger—more than double what it was before the great war!"

With Ling Changqing around, the Ling Family of Changqing Continent's fortune had always been on a steady rise. However, the complete victory in this war had clearly brought the Ling Family immense benefits, causing their fortune to rise even further.

Qin Yun smiled faintly. "Of course. As long as our husband is here, our Changqing Continent will surely grow stronger and stronger!"

"Mhm, let's go inside. Let's see what goodies our husband brought back."

With that, Ling Yuzhu took Qin Yun by the hand and they entered the Pill Hall together.

Inside the spacious hall, the Top Grade Magical Treasure, the Shuoyue Qingyang Furnace, was already set up in the center. From now on, Ling Changqing and his beautiful confidantes would use it for the refining of various Elixirs.

The higher the grade of a Pill Furnace, the greater the success rate, quality, efficiency, and yield of Elixirs refined within it.

Even if he and Ling Qiyue couldn't yet fully unleash the power of this Top grade Magical Treasure level Pill Furnace, they would still benefit immensely.

As for the newly subdued Golden Core Master, Liu Chengbin, he was currently sitting quietly in a corner, awaiting his master Ling Changqing's commands.

For Ling Changqing, this was arguably the most valuable prize from the war.

Previously, in the eyes of the outside world, the Ling Family had only one Golden Core Master: Ling Qiyue. Fu Yin Xue's identity, for the time being, could not be revealed.

Xue Qingtan was from the Xingyun sun Commerce Association, and Meng Feiyu was from the Xianyin Pavilion. On the surface, neither of them seemed to have any connection to the Ling Family.

But now, after Liu Chengbin was given a new identity, Ling Qiyue had granted him the status of a lifelong Honored Guest Elder. He could now appear in public and legitimately become one of the family's top-tier combatants.

The strategic significance of having one Golden Core Master versus two is completely different for a power. It helps avoid the high risk of having the family's rise and fall depend on a single person.

This meant that the Ling Family of Changqing Continent's control over the entire Feiyu Sea Region had significantly increased, and their potential deterrence against outsiders had risen in tandem. The various benefits were self-evident.

Furthermore, from now on, the Ling Family would no longer need to purchase Elixir resources below the Third Grade from outside sources. As long as they could obtain the raw materials and Pill Formulas, Ling Qiyue could essentially refine them herself.

At this moment, with a faint CRACKLE, the Restriction on another Storage Pouch was ground away by the combined efforts of the women, dissolving into a multicolored stream of light that vanished completely.

Ling Changqing reached into the Storage Pouch and took out all the items inside, laying them out on the floor one by one to be sorted and categorized.

Ling Zhiqing, Ling Xueyu, Ling Bingyun, Ling Yulu, and Fu Yin Xue were all present, helping to break the Restrictions on the various Storage Magical Artifacts.

The hall had now become a temporary storehouse, with all sorts of Pill Bottles, Talismans and Magical Artifacts, Spiritual Artifacts and Jade Scrolls, Spirit Stones, and Medicinal Herbs spread across the floor.

These were all the spoils of war brought back by Ling Changqing and the women. They had killed so many disciples of the Haoyue Sect, including no shortage of True Pill and Pseudo Core experts, as well as a great number of Cultivators at the Foundation Establishment Level. Their wealth was bound to be substantial.

Tang Qiu Yao held a blank Jade Scroll, a joyful expression on her face as she took inventory of the resources by quantity and type, recording them in a ledger.

The final count left even Ling Qiyue and Fu Yin Xue astonished. The Spirit Stones of various grades alone formed several small peaks.

Inside the Storage Pouch left by the Nascent Soul Ancestor, Ling Changqing also found over two hundred Top grade Spirit Stones. They were crystal clear, brimming with Spiritual Qi, and had been neatly cut and polished.

The Nascent Soul Ancestor's collection was impressively vast. There was a huge pile of various Spirit Medicine and Spiritual Herbs, mostly of Rank Two and Three, but it also included several dozen of the most precious and rare Rank Four Spirit Medicines and Spiritual Herbs.

Then there were various culinary ingredients, Spirit Gold and Spirit Ore, Spirit Beast Hides, Inner Core materials, and so on, which also formed several small mountains.

As for finished Elixirs and Talismans, very few remained; they had likely been used up in previous battles.

However, Ling Changqing did find a bottle of Foundation Establishment Pills—fifteen of them in total. They were probably what the Nascent Soul Ancestor used to reward low-level disciples.

Even though the Ling Family was no longer short on Foundation Establishment Pills, this was still a fortune not to be overlooked.

'Not bad. This has to be worth a few hundred Middle grade Spirit Stones,'

Ling Changqing mused. The Foundation Establishment resources that a low-level Loose Cultivator might strive for their entire life were nothing more than pocket money in the eyes of a Nascent Soul bigshot.

There were dozens of different Jade Scroll Books, Beast Hide Scrolls, paper Scriptures, and rare secret volumes, which recorded the most important Cultivation Technique and Divine Technique legacies of the Haoyue Sect.

Ling Changqing looked through them and found that they were mostly Profound level Middle to Lower Grade Cultivation Method Scriptures. There wasn't a single Profound level Top Grade one.

Ling Changqing had already spoken with Liu Chengbin several times. Combined with the memories from the Nascent Soul Ancestor, he could confirm that among the many Nascent Soul Level powers in Yaozhou, the Haoyue Sect was actually considered to be at the bottom of the barrel.

After all, this Sect had previously only been a veteran Golden Core power. It wasn't until over seven hundred years ago that their first Nascent Soul True Monarch appeared, and they had only ever had one guarding the Sect at any given time.

Of course, even the weakest Nascent Soul power was on a completely different level from a Golden Core power. Therefore, these Cultivation Method Scriptures were undoubtedly a timely boon for the Ling Family.