Ji Family Northern Region Headquarters

"Zhou Tong, we have the resources, but I don't have the scriptures for the Dao Palace Realm yet. What should we do?" Ye Fan suddenly asked, looking at Zhou Tong with hope.

Zhou Tong glanced at Ye Fan with disdain and said, "You want to get the scriptures of the Dao Palace Realm from me?"

Ye Fan's eyes lit up. "You must have some scriptures from the Dao Palace Realm! For the sake of being classmates for so many years, can you give me one?"

"The scriptures of the Dao Palace Realm... I'd really like to see the scriptures of Jade Pool, and I know where they are!" Zhou Tong chuckled. "So, Ye Fan, do you want the strongest scriptures of the Dao Palace Realm?"

"The Empress West Scripture? Do you know where it is?" Ye Fan's eyes lit up immediately.

"Promise me one thing, and I'll entrust it to you!" Zhou Tong pondered for a moment before speaking.

"What is it?" Ye Fan asked.

"It's hard to say now, and I haven't thought of anything yet. I'll talk about it when I do!" Zhou Tong said calmly. "Are you willing to agree to something so uncertain?"

Ye Fan remained silent for a while, his expression becoming somewhat serious, before saying, "If it doesn't violate my principles, I can agree to it." Faced with such an uncertain promise, Ye Fan was very cautious and wouldn't readily agree.

"That's good, it won't go against your principles!" Zhou Tong nodded.

"That scripture..."

"I haven't obtained the complete scripture yet. I only have a fragment of it. Even a fragment can be cultivated to the Paragon of the Dao Palace Realm, and it won't affect your breakthrough to the Four Extremities Realm. Once you obtain the complete scripture in the future, you can naturally complete it at will!" Zhou Tong said, directly telling Ye Fan a small section of the scripture.

This is a short passage of scripture recorded in the "Source Heaven Book Empress West Scripture), which is the general outline of the Dao Palace Scroll of the "Xi Huang Jing" (Scripture of the Western Emperor). It can also be cultivated to the Paragon of the Dao Palace Realm. This can also be considered the "scripture guide" of the Dao Palace Scroll of the " Empress West Scripture ".

Having obtained the scriptures he desired, Ye Fan stopped exploring and quickly entered the secluded cultivation chamber.

He summoned the Jade Bottle, and a multicolored source appeared before him, dazzling and radiant, illuminating the secluded meditation chamber.

Then, Ye Fan began his final transformation in the Sea of Wheels Realm.

Meanwhile, on the other side, after Ye Fan went into seclusion, Zhou Tong secretly slipped out at night.

The Dao Pattern that the Jiang Family set up in Crane Courtyard could deal with Ye Fan, but not with Zhou Tong.

With his methods, even the most powerful beings would find it difficult to detect his presence if he used the Nine Secrets: Zu, unless they were watching him intently.

After leaving Crane Courtyard, Zhou Tong immediately summoned the Mysterious Jade Platform and traveled directly into the distance.

Northern Region, Ji Family Mining Headquarters.

Several disciples were chatting idly.

"I hear the harvest is quite good this year!"

"Yes, there are five or six rich mining areas that send in forty to fifty jin of Source every month! The less desirable mining areas send in forty to twenty jin of Source every month."

"If we calculate it this way, wouldn't we be able to earn seven jin of Source Stones this year?"

"More than that! I remember that several mining areas near the Primordial Ancient Mine have unearthed Divine Source the size of cartwheels on several occasions. If we include the value of those Divine Source, this is at least 20 million catties of source!"

"Divine Source? How come I don't know about it?"

"Nonsense, the Divine Source are all directly picked up and delivered by the elders, they don't go through us at all. If my father hadn't let it slip when he was drunk, I wouldn't have known either."

"There are so many this year? In previous years, it was probably only about half!"

"Who knows? They'll never tell us the exact number of Divine Source they've unearthed..."

The disciples guarding the source vault were all whispering amongst themselves, completely relaxed. This was the headquarters of the Ji Family's mine, guarded by over a dozen powerful figures; even the so-called Thirteen Great Bandits wouldn't dare to attack easily.

"Oh? Twenty jin of Source? That's good news!" Zhou Tong, concealed to the side, overheard the Ji Family disciples' chatter. "As expected of the Ancient Desolate Family, their annual income from Source Mine alone can reach tens of millions of catties of Origin. No wonder those aristocratic family scions in the original story were so generous during the auctions..."

Zhou Tong couldn't help but recall the several auctions in the original novel, where some scions of powerful families were able to spend millions of jin of Source to purchase resources. And these were just the disciples, not even counting the elders.

In reality, those holy lands probably earn fifty to sixty million jin of Source each year. If it's a holy land like the Ji Family or the Jiang Family, the annual income would probably be even higher, perhaps even reaching hundreds of millions or even millions of jin of Source energy.

Of course, their expenses are also high, and many resources require funds to purchase, such as Dragon Marrow, and materials for refining weapons and alchemy.

"Revenge is a matter of personal vendetta, and among peers, the outcome is a matter of personal choice. But since your Ji Family Great Experts dares to attack me from above and waste the power of my Purple Sun Lamp, don't blame me for being ruthless."

Zhou Tong chuckled lightly, then concealed himself and walked towards the Ji Family's source treasury.

There were no guards at the entrance to the source warehouse.

"You Ji Family are really confident that you don't even have a gatekeeper!" Zhou Tong's eyes lit up immediately, and he opened his Martial Heavenly Eye.

Instantly, countless Dao Pattern appeared on the ground and in the source warehouse.

These are the Void Array Pattern set up by powerful figures from the Ji Family. They are mysterious and unpredictable. Under Zhou Tong's Martial Heavenly Eye, one can see the Dao Pattern and runes constantly alternating and glowing, rising and falling.

"Hehe, I'm afraid you never expected that someone who has cultivated the Nine Secrets: Zu would come to steal your resources!" Zhou Tong chuckled, then quickly moved, his palms waving in the Void the Great, and Dao Pattern emerging from between his fingers.

As Zhou Tong moved, a small path quickly appeared.

The next moment, Zhou Tong flashed and quickly arrived at the entrance of the Source Vault along the path.

The gate was also protected by powerful restrictions, making it impossible to open without the correct methods.

However, all these Array Patterns and restrictions were rendered useless by Zhou Tong's Nine Secrets: Zu. He easily broke through the Array Patterns and restrictions on the gate and entered the Source Vault.

As soon as Zhou Tong entered the source repository, all the methods he had previously set up quickly disappeared.

This is, after all, Array Patterns meticulously set up by the Ji Family. Even if Zhou Tong is proficient in the Nine Secrets: Zu of character formation, he can only temporarily affect these Array Patterns at most. To completely change the Array Patterns, a much more powerful method is needed, one that cannot be achieved in a short time.

Upon entering the source repository, Zhou Tong immediately felt as if his eyes were about to be blinded by the light.

It's absolutely dazzling.

The colorful Source Stone appeared before his eyes, and the surging Originium energy was so powerful that it was almost intoxicating to breathe in it; it was truly terrifying.

The most terrifying thing was the sky at the center of this source reservoir, where divine light soared into the heavens. There were countless pieces of Divine Source, so brilliant that it was impossible to open one's eyes. They were the size of a fist, the size of a human head, the size of a cartwheel, and all kinds of shapes, like suns hanging in the Sun Emperor, dazzling beyond compare.

"This is truly dazzling! Twenty jin of Source, it's truly spectacular!!" Faced with such wealth, Zhou Tong was quite excited.

This is the harvest of the Ji Family's Northern Region Source Mine for a year; they are truly rolling in wealth.

"Huh, what's that?" Suddenly, Zhou Tong's eyes flashed as he looked in one direction of the treasure vault, a look of disbelief on his face.

"Dragon Pattern Black Gold! The Ji Family actually found a piece of Dragon Pattern Black Gold beneath the mine!" Zhou Tong exclaimed excitedly.

This is a piece of Dragon Pattern Black Gold, four inches long and four fingers thick, about the size of a fist; in terms of volume, it is more than a hundred times larger than the Dragon Pattern Black Gold Sword that Zhou Tong cut out before, and weighs more than ten thousand catties!

"Dragon Pattern Black Gold... The Ji Family's luck this year is truly defying the heavens!" The more Zhou Tong thought about it, the more shocked he became.

"Could the contents of those holy sites already contain enough Immortal Metal to make up an Supreme Emperor Weapon?" Zhou Tong suddenly thought of this question.

Those sacred sites have occupied the earth for countless years, and they always get a share of anything good that's unearthed. They even buy the Immortal Metal that others dig up.

Although some people must have taken these Immortal Metal materials to refine artifacts over the countless years, there must still be a considerable amount of Immortal Material remaining.

The Big Dipper Star Domain, in particular, is arguably the most concentrated area of Emperor Battle, containing the most fragments of Imperial Weapon. It's even possible that the fragments of Imperial Weapon collected by the Great Emperor after they killed beings in Forbidden Zone were left behind in the Big Dipper!

The amount of Immortal Material in Big Dipper is far beyond imagination!

"Who cares, we'll deal with that later. These things are all mine now!!"

Zhou Tong moved with incredible speed, like a whirlwind Luoye. His Ten Cave Heaven Divine Rings unfolded, unleashing a series of extraordinary phenomena that enveloped the entire source vault. In an instant, the entire source vault was reduced to a vast expanse of white.

"Who dares to trespass on the Ji Family Source Treasury?"

Almost instantly, a large group of the Ji Family reacted and rushed towards the source vault. Leading them were seventeen old men with white hair and beards and eyes as sharp as lightning.