The void was boundless, with no east or west to ask after.
The Wind Fire Reed Boat shot out of Xuantai Pingyu Heaven, crossing ten thousand miles in an instant as it flew toward Taiping World Heaven.
Inside the cabin, Chen Luo stretched lazily and began taking stock of what he had gained in Xuantai Pingyu Heaven.
First, naturally, there were the source materials needed to update Investiture of the Gods. After deducting what he had already used in Xuantai Pingyu Heaven and adding what he had obtained from Yu Tiantian's treasure vault, Chen Luo now had exactly forty portions in hand.
What did forty portions actually mean?
Bamboo Saint had once said that the sources of source materials were extremely limited. With the Heavenly Dao now lacking strength and unable to nurture source materials, aside from the few remaining Small Universes belonging to Saints, the only way to obtain them was by killing enemies from beyond the heavens and seizing their spoils.
Yet because those enemies followed different paths of cultivation, not all of them necessarily possessed source materials. Even if they did, most had already refined them into treasures, making them unusable.
And yet source materials had a wide range of uses. Aside from being refined into Dao Attainment Treasures, they were also vital for strengthening treasures.
A great spender like Chen Luo was rare, but when a First Inquiry Half-Saint advanced to Second Inquiry, or a Second Inquiry Half-Saint advanced to Third Inquiry, they needed more than an increase in origin power. They also needed source materials to strengthen their Dao Attainment Treasures and stabilize the Small Universe within their bodies.
In short, source materials were terribly scarce in the Ancestral Land.
Chen Luo did not know about the Daoist sects, but according to Bamboo Saint's estimate,