The moment the door opened, the cavern ahead revealed an astonishing amount of treasure. Immortal crystals were piled throughout the cavern, too many to count. There was not even a winding path through it, so they probably had to fly across. Look.<>
"Th-this... so... so much!" Qian Longchen's mouth fell open so wide he could barely close it. He drifted over, reached out, and scooped up some of the Immortal crystals, clicking his tongue in wonder. "If this treasury is piled to this extent, there must be at least twenty or thirty million Grade Five and Six Immortal crystals. What a terrifying amount... No wonder Daoist Luo and I were demoted, while those two trusted aides were made peak masters..."
I sucked in a cold breath. What did twenty or thirty million mean? Back then, I had been willing to launch a war against a city for ten or twenty thousand. Yet there were this many here. Even Luo Shanyang of the Carefree Immortal Valley had never possessed such enormous wealth; he had only had a few million!
"Why are there so many? Daoist Qian, how do you think they came by them?" I asked with a frown. Such a vast sum of Immortal crystals would completely reshuffle the economy if it flooded into Central State. Transporting it away would also be difficult. This place was still a long distance from the border. Flying there myself would be manageable, but moving such a huge sum would require a large number of cultivators.
"With so many Demon Cultivators and tribes, including the sects in the open and the settlements hidden in the shadows, collecting this much isn't difficult. Besides, there's a rumor from the Heaven-Bearing Gate that you turned this place into a logistics and supply hub. Immortal crystals have been