Ask Dao Sect's Treasury

Yun Zhi had indeed forgotten about the patent fees. The Ask Dao Sect had two main sources of income: patent fees from Hundred Refinement Peak and pill fees from Elixir Cauldron Peak. These two combined were enough to support almost half of the Ask Dao Sect's operations.

The Fifth Elder and the Seventh Elder had to pay Spirit Stone to her, the acting Sect Master, every month. The Fifth Elder, in particular, paid patent fees for many different kinds, including Lu Yang's patent fees.

Yun Zhi overlooked it without even realizing it.

She flipped through the ledgers and found the patent fees belonging to Lu Yang.

"There are two months' worth of patent fees for the flying vehicle, totaling 110,000 Spirit Stone."

Flying cars were newly invented and not yet popular, so the patent fees were very low in the early stages.

"Come with me to the treasury and fetch some money."

Since Lu Yang's patent fees have already been confiscated, they should naturally be taken from the public account.

"Treasury?"

Lu Yang and the Immortal Fairy were both surprised, never expecting that the Ask Dao Sect would have such a place.

That makes sense. Even a poor place like the Nine Nether Sect has a treasury, Ask Dao Sect shouldn't have one. If it didn't, where would the Ask Dao Sect keep its money?

It's just that Lu Yang hadn't come into contact with it before.

Is it far?

"It's right here at Heaven Gate Peak."

Yun Zhi walked along a narrow path and then through a pine forest, the place where the Silent Daoist had once been imprisoned. After walking about two hundred meters from the pine forest, she arrived at her destination.

"It's here."

Under the watchful eyes of the Immortal Fairy and Lu Yang, Yun Zhi gently tapped the stone wall, causing it to crack and shatter with a loud bang, scattering debris all over the ground.

This is it.

Lu Yang was surprised, not expecting the treasury to be located on Heaven Gate Peak. However, what puzzled him even more was that, logically speaking, as the foundation and basis of a sect, the treasury should either be guarded by elders or protected by array formations. Why didn't their Ask Dao Sect's treasury even have a gatekeeper?

Even if the Ask Dao Sect Protection Array and is not afraid of external enemies, aren't they worried about insiders infiltrating the treasury?

The eldest sister doesn't stay at Heaven Gate Peak every day; she goes out quite often for other reasons.

The Immortal Fairy chuckled, "Who said there's no one guarding it?"

Who is it?

The Immortal Fairy grinned mischievously, refusing to answer Lu Yang's questions.

The two shared one body, making a racket as they entered the vault, then fell silent.

The treasury was filled with all sorts of treasures that Lu Yang had never seen before, including heavenly materials and earthly treasures as well as refined Law Treasure, the functions and levels of which were unknown.

Everyone knows the Immortal Fairy.

"That landscape painting depicts mountains, rivers, and the nation, and is the work of a master painter. It has the function of stabilizing the country. It is ancient, and its function conflicts with the fate of the nation. It may be a treasure of the Great Yu Dynasty."

"See that small red cauldron? It's made of Blood-Veined Iron. Blood-Veined Iron exists in dangerous polar regions, at the bottom of the deep sea, at the beginning of glaciers, and in the deepest part of star cores... It can appear anywhere. It's a creation of nature. Some people say that the blood patterns on the iron are the blood of the heavens, but that's an exaggeration. Blood-Veined Iron is extremely rare in the world. It's primarily used for offense. Even a piece the size of a fingernail can cause a Body Integration Realm of fighting among Nascent Soul cultivators, let alone such a large piece."

"And this fruit, don't be fooled by its crystal-clear appearance, like a piece of jade, it's actually a fruit. Its name is Azure Jade Fruit. One fruit can transform an ordinary mixed Spirit Root of the five elements into the purest single Spirit Root, and you can freely decide what kind of Spirit Root it becomes."

"The essence of the ocean's soul, the Sea Soul Crystal..."

"A shield forged from Xuanhuang Qi..."

"These are all good things." The Immortal Fairy was slightly surprised; the treasures stored in the treasury exceeded her expectations.

Second only to the immortals' storage.

Although she was the head of the Five Immortals of High Antiquity, she was the poorest among them. She had few planets, a small place, and few offerings. Sometimes she even had to pretend to be dead to scam money from others.

Even so, she is still richer than the Ask Dao Sect!

Besides the five immortals, there were many Tribulation Transcendence cultivators in High Antiquity. These Tribulation Transcendence formed forces of varying sizes. The storage capacity of the Ask Dao Sect was comparable to that of the largest Tribulation Transcendence cultivator!

Lu Yang said with a hint of pride, his tone rising, "My Ask Dao Sect has stood for 120,000 years, and has been led by its founding patriarch, the Heavenly Dao, the founder of the concept of immortal sects, the Guiyuan Heavenly Venerable, and the patriarch of its revival, the Hanhai Daoist Lord. It's no surprise that we have these treasures!"

The Immortal Fairy thought about it and realized that made sense.

Hearing Lu Yang's proud tone, Yun Zhi reminded him, "Our Ask Dao Sect wasn't always this wealthy. The Vast Ocean Dao Lord was a figure from 50,000 years ago. His resources couldn't sustain us until now. Moreover, the sect experienced a period of decline two or three thousand years ago. To maintain the sect's normal operation, we consumed a lot of valuable items. Most of the treasures you see now were swindled from the Nine Nether Sect nine hundred years ago."

Lu Yang: "..."

This was only the outermost edge of the vault. Yun Zhi led the two further in, and the deeper they went, the more astonishingly valuable the items inside became.

When she reached about halfway through the treasury, Yun Zhi stopped. On either side were two mountains made of top-grade Spirit Stone.

Yun Zhi shoveled out ten high-grade Spirit Stone from the top-grade Spirit Stone mountain. These valuable high-grade Spirit Stone were inconspicuous among the two top-grade Spirit Stone mountains, like impurities.

The market price of ten high-grade Spirit Stone is equivalent to 100,000 low-grade Spirit Stone.

However, this is the market price. In actual transactions, there will be a premium when exchanging primary Spirit Stone for advanced Spirit Stone. For example, about ten advanced Spirit Stone can be exchanged for 110,000 primary Spirit Stone.

The Immortal Fairy is still controlling Lu Yang's body. The eldest sister handed over the high-grade Spirit Stone, only to find the Immortal Fairy staring blankly into the depths of the treasury.

She realized she had been careless; the Ask Dao Sect's resources were far more astonishing than she had imagined, possibly even more valuable than her own personal savings!

If the outer perimeter of the treasury contains items used by the Body Integration Realm and Tribulation Transcendence stages, then these two mountains of top-grade Spirit Stone stones are the dividing line. The interior of the treasury contains semi-immortal-level Law Treasure, talismans, and heavenly materials and earthly treasures that are effective even for semi-immortal-level individuals!

Deep within the vault, there were faint spots of light, indistinct and unclear. The Immortal Fairy was unsure what they were, but judging from the aura, they resembled a nascent Dao Fruit she had never seen before—no, this aura was far stronger than that of a nascent Dao Fruit...

"Fairy, fairy?" Lu Yang called out twice, and the Immortal Fairy came back to her senses.

"What's wrong with you?" Lu Yang asked curiously.

"It's nothing. I just feel that your sect's foundation is barely worthy of my title as the number one throughout the ages!" The Immortal Fairy raised her head, full of confidence.

After leaving the treasury, the Immortal Fairy returned control of her body to Lu Yang Lu Yang face turned pale.

"Oh no, I've been using the Pocket Village feature the whole time!"

Even if maintaining the village in the palm of your hand doesn't consume much spiritual energy, it can't withstand prolonged use.

He quickly dispelled the Law Technique, emptying his palm of his hands: stones, twigs, quacking ducks...

Lu Yang watched the ducks fluttering around in silence.

There's already enough trouble with the Immortal Fairy on Heaven Gate Peak; we can't exactly raise a duck on top of that.

As night falls, the aroma of roast duck fills the air.

After a fierce battle, Lu Yang first defeated the duck, then the Immortal Fairy, and finally earned the right to cook.

He brought the roasted duck to his senior sister, who had been waiting for a long time.