Two hundred Desolate Grade cultivation techniques could raise Su Xiaobai's cultivation progress several times over.
The period he had expected to spend traveling around and waging battles had now been filled by the wealth of the Northern Heaven Star Nation. Even if Su Xiaobai did nothing but rely on the system to cultivate, it would be enough to raise him step by step to the Ninth Stage Great Desolation!
Unfortunately, that speed still wasn't fast enough. The most direct method was to comprehensively raise the system's level, allowing the speed at which it repaired Time Rifts to rise with the tide. That way, he would still have time to establish himself as king of a mountain before the entire Supreme Jiang Kingdom collapsed!
Countless Giant Shadows guarded the territory beyond the nation's borders. For the time being, Su Xiaobai could rest easy alone in the national treasury while taking stock of his spoils.
Aside from Origin Crystals and Desolate Grade cultivation techniques, the Northern Heaven Star Nation had also accumulated countless treasures and resources over innumerable eras. After part of them had been completely consumed as wartime resources, the remainder still filled half the national treasury...
It seemed that even if the Northern Heaven Sovereign hadn't chosen to make a last stand, he could still have relied on his remaining foundations to fight his enemies to the death. But the Northern Heaven Star Nation ultimately couldn't escape its fate of destruction, so Xiaobai had to thank the sovereign for making a relatively rational choice in the end: sacrificing the small self to benefit the greater whole!
"Hm? There's a passage behind this batch of arms?"
Su Xiaobai moved aside a vast quantity of Divine Weapons and Sharp Blades, clearing out an ancient, dilapidated passage from among the mountain of treasures.