As Lin Tian spoke those words,
the five True Essence Realm martial artists present, including Qi Tianliang, felt their hearts tighten.
This was precisely what they had feared most.
After all, they had been stationed here for nearly two months.
To claim that all five of them had kept their hands clean would have been absolutely impossible.
These were genuine Heaven-and-Earth Treasures, after all!!
With resources like these before them,
how could they not be tempted?
What they feared most now was that Lin Tian might be too honest.
The sort of rigid man who followed every rule to the letter...
If he discovered that they had embezzled resources...
he might report them to the sect.
If that really happened,
being punished would be the least of their worries.
If all the resources they had pocketed were confiscated... that would truly be the death of them!!
But they also understood that, now that Lin Tian had spoken,
they could hardly disobey.
Up ahead, Qi Tianliang sighed inwardly,
then took a ledger from inside his robes and handed it to Lin Tian.
Lin Tian immediately took the ledger and began flipping through it.
Of course, as a True Essence Realm martial artist,
he needed only a quick skim to grasp its contents.
But Lin Tian paid no attention to the other figures.
His gaze went straight to the final total recorded at the end.
870 sky fire marrow crystals!!
Seeing that number, Lin Tian could not help feeling a little startled.
Clearly, he had not expected it to be so high!
After all, following the earlier distribution of resources,
Lin Tian already knew that, over these two months,
his Dao Origin Sect could probably claim only a tenth of all the sky fire marrow crystals.
Yet that tenth alone amounted to