If craftsmen were employed to refine those demon beast spirit materials into spirit items, the value of this batch of demon beast corpses could more than double.
Even after setting aside the expenses of compensating the cultivators who had slain those low-level demon beasts and turned in the corpses, as well as the costs of hiring craftsmen to refine spirit items, the Ling Clan would still earn no fewer than two to three million spirit stones in the end.
Moreover, the Ling Clan now had numerous craftsmen within the clan. Within fifty years, they could refine the materials from those demon beasts into spirit items.
Afterward, the Ling Clan could use the markets throughout its territories, along with the two Golden Core branches it had established in the Boundless Sea Region Cultivation World—the Fire Serpent Sect and the Qian Clan—to dispose of that batch of spirit items in a short time.
At most, within fifty years, they could turn them into two to three million spirit stones.
Even for the Ling Clan, this sum of spirit stones was enormous—enough to support two or three clan members in attempting to break through to the Golden Core realm.
After arranging for the nearly twenty thousand cultivators formerly stationed at Purple Scorpion Mountain to transport the demon beast corpses back one by one, Ling Yunhong returned to Purple Scorpion Mountain ahead of them. He intended to meet up with Grand Elder Zhao Yuanqian and Zhao Baigang, who had come as reinforcements from the Zhao Clan, and divide the spoils from the five Golden Core Demon Kings they had slain earlier.
Yet, to his surprise, Zhao Yuanqian, the Zhao Clan's Grand Elder, who should originally have had several decades of lifespan remaining, was now wreathed in deathly aura. His Golden Core Ninth Layer cultivation