Jiang Ding sat quietly atop Blood Lake Corpse Mountain.
Before leaving, the largest sect in the Thunderflame Domain sprang into action at his command. Countless Golden Core, Nascent Soul, and Deity Transformation Cultivators became busy, beginning to collect specimens of the Thunderflame Domain's many unique lifeforms, ores, natural treasures, and various inheritances.
Blood Lake Corpse Mountain was far more powerful than Mud Swamp Demon City.
Its efficiency in gathering these things far surpassed that of Mud Swamp Demon City, further enriching the Immortal Sect Library's foundations and once again filling out the Immortal Sect's immortal dao database, the primal source from which all immortal dao achievements were born.
Moreover, these collection efforts were hidden amid the tangled, complicated mass of sect affairs. Without control over the sect's upper echelons, no one could possibly notice what was being done.
In merely ten years, nearly every mortal-grade item and all manner of first- through sixth-grade natural treasures in the Thunderflame Domain had been collected in a single specimen. Aside from a tiny number of items too rare to obtain, it was practically a net cast over everything.
At this point, the benefits of eliminating all Void Refinement cultivators became apparent.
This somewhat unusual matter did not arouse suspicion from anyone in Blood Lake Corpse Mountain. Though the orders of the Void Refinement cultivators were somewhat strange, lower-ranking cultivators merely had to carry them out. They would not spare any further thought for it.
"This place is no longer of any use."
After collecting the final specimen and inheritance, Jiang Ding left Blood Lake Corpse Mountain.
Before departing, he had all of Blood Lake Corpse Mountain's Void Refinement cultivators enter seclusion, no longer receiving subordinate disciples or the like. With the sect-protecting formation operating automatically, maintaining order for several centuries would pose no