The daze passed.
Luo Chen came back to himself.
Perhaps. And only perhaps.
Within Skybillow, the Foundation Establishment Sixth Layer might make him somebody.
But after seeing the depths of Azure Pill Valley, he knew the Foundation Establishment Sixth Layer amounted to nothing!
The minimum threshold for joining Azure Pill Valley's Dao Seed Competition was Late-Stage Foundation Establishment.
And that was merely a contest between disciples.
Above them stood many Golden Core Cultivators.
Even Golden Core Cultivators were not the pinnacle. There were still Nascent Souls and Spirit Transformation cultivators.
How far had he really come?
Without sufficient strength, power and wealth were nothing but illusions.
Even with a beauty in his arms, how could he give himself over to pleasure?
The softness beneath his right hand seemed to fade away. Luo Chen held up a Storage Bag in his left hand and sent his Spiritual Sense inside.
Diamond-shaped crystals lay stacked in neat, dense rows.
With a sweep of his senses, the exact number appeared clearly in his mind.
A hundred and fifty thousand!
It was not a large sum.
Compared with the profits Luo Chen had earned by personally refining and selling Jade Marrow Pills, it was nearly thirty percent less.
But over the past two years, Luo Chen had hardly refined any pills himself.
In other words, every bit of this income came from the Luo Tian Association's output!
And it was net profit after covering every expense for the association's cultivators!
"Once the Luo Tian Association got on track, it brought in this much?"
Delight shone in Luo Chen's eyes.
He had once had savings of several hundred thousand, but after paying the rent on the High-Grade Cave Mansion and buying that batch of High-Grade Rising Dragon Pills, only two hundred thousand remained.
That figure included