Forging a Treasure Beyond Dao Integration Through a Sword Soul Cultivator's Lifelong Path

"These materials are worth fifteen Void Refining battle credits and three million supreme-grade spirit stones in total."

"The sword-forging process will take a hundred years."

Jiang Ding ran the numbers, and his mouth twitched.

That meant a hundred years of cultivation would consume the entirety of Swamp True Venerable's wealth!

Excluding his Dao Integration battle credits, everything he owned could support at most three rounds of cultivation before he went bankrupt.

But could he call it wasteful?

He was forging divine metal beyond Dao Integration!

What did a few Void Refining materials and a great many fourth- and fifth-tier materials amount to?

This was already remarkably frugal. The exquisite inheritance of a near-immortal power had pushed resource efficiency to its limit, leaving not the slightest room for waste.

In fact, those Void Refining materials and millions of supreme-grade spirit stones were not the greatest investment.

The greatest investment was the sword soul cultivator himself!

The sword soul prodigy of the domain's sword path: all his mana, divine sense, lifeblood, and sword intent, along with every battle he fought and the aspirations and path he pursued throughout his life.

That was the key to forging divine metal beyond Dao Integration.

Without a sword soul cultivator, even ten times or a hundred times those materials could never bring anyone near such metal. It was a transformation as vast as heaven and earth.

In the cultivation world, the gulf between higher and lower levels was like the distance between heaven and earth. The further one advanced, the wider that gulf became; quantity could not make up for quality.

"A thousand pieces of gold spent will come back again. When the cart reaches the mountain, a road will appear..."

"There are ways to live even when you're broke. A man can't let a full