Using entries to cultivate immortality in chaotic times-Chapter 638 - 225: "Merit Golden House". _3

This, after all, was achieved through the act of cultivating to improve the Cultivation Progress, not using things like Heavenly Dao Cultivation Pills, and it consumed a tremendous amount of Spirit Stones. The current assets of the Chao Tian Sect…

Not counting Top-grade Spirit Stones, low-grade Spirit Stones, heavenly materials, earthly treasures, talismans, pills, etc., just counting Spirit Stones alone, were only one million and nine hundred thousand.

Originally, there were only one million and six hundred thousand, but he had spent some yesterday at the reward pool.

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Later, the Shopkeeper managed to crack two Storage Rings, finding another eighty thousand Spirit Stones, plus the Sect Master of the Heavenly Axe Sect, quite sensibly, offered up two hundred thousand Mid-grade Spirit Stones straight away.

Suddenly, his “little treasury” reached nearly one million and nine hundred thousand.

However… for him, this many Spirit Stones were completely insufficient.

So—

Before officially beginning his seclusion for cultivation,

Chao Tian Sect had three major tasks at hand.

The first, to find more master decipherers skilled in restrictions, since the Shopkeeper was about to be worked to death and still couldn’t cope with all the work.

The second, to occupy a piece of land with the richest spiritual energy, to serve as the territory for collective seclusion.

The third, after assessing the overall strength of Xuantian State, to start delivering gift baskets house by house.

The people of the Vast Continent were clearly much more fruitful than those of the Xuantian Continent; just the Sect Master of the Heavenly Axe Sect alone was able to easily, without any difficulty, hand over two hundred thousand Mid-grade Spirit Stones.

Tsk tsk, quite good.

And the area of Xuantian State was not small at all, amounting to half the size of the Xuantian Continent.

A Void Refining beginner-level expert would need four hours, nearly half a day, to run from the southernmost to the northernmost point of Xuantian State, and bear in mind, the movement technique speed of a Void Refining expert was certainly not slow.

With such an enormous territory, just how many forces could there be…

A satisfied smile couldn’t help but emerge on Chen Qiu’s face, just as in the Xuantian Continent, as long as the demands of Chao Tian Sect were never too great each time, the others generally wouldn’t have any objections, and they wouldn’t band together either. Of course, Evil Sects were another story.

In the Vast Continent,

Different powers, families, and sects often had complex emotional ties and loyalties. The daughter of a small family might be the legitimate wife of a True Disciple of a Major Sect.

In such a complex environment, large sects generally wouldn’t easily swallow up smaller sects. There were many concerns, after all, fearing the smaller sect might have other backgrounds, requiring advance investigation.

And indiscriminate annexation would also ruin a sect’s reputation in the Cultivation World, provoke dissatisfaction among other powers, and their disciples might encounter silent assassination when venturing out.

It included the possibility that some disciples of the small sect might escape and return for revenge years later.

The reasons were many,

But when combined, there was only one: the price to pay, the unknown costs to bear, and the benefits gained were not proportional. With that effort, major sects could simply send their Inner Sect Disciples to plunder in the Heavenly Dao Secret Realm, which would yield even more rewards.

After all,

There are many Heavenly Dao Secret Realms in the Vast Continent, and often, the output of cultivation resources is actually from the Heavenly Dao Secret Realms, making Secret Realms often a better choice.

Of course, all these premises are based on mutual restraint among everyone, without any power being unrivaled. But if such a power were to emerge, what would follow would be, undeniably, plundering.

After all, even if the heavens were torn apart, plundering would always be the fastest way to obtain resources, bar none.

The effort spent towards Heavenly Dao Secret Realms…

Would be a waste of time.

And now, on the Vast Continent, where the twelve states were unable to communicate due to the Heavenly Dao Shackles, the seemingly imprisoned Xuantian State welcomed such a singularly dominant force.

“Chao Tian Sect”!

And the practices of Chao Tian Sect, ever since its debut in Da Xia Country, have never forgotten their original intention.

…

Just as Chen Qiu was preparing to return to the Heavenly Palace to test his cultivation speed and see how long more than one million Mid-grade Spirit Stones would last for his personal use, suddenly a stream of Liu Guang shot across the sky.

As soon as the Heavenly Axe Sect Master was about to arrive at the Heavenly Hall,

He descended from the sky.

Hurrying down Green Stone Street towards the tavern where Chen Qiu was, he carefully stopped a Chao Tian Sect Disciple and signaled him to help pass a message.

All of this was naturally seen from the rooftop of the tavern by Chen Qiu, and the Sect Master of the Heavenly Axe Sect certainly knew he could see clearly, it was just for show, but such performative behavior was comforting to people’s hearts.