Slaughter Billions to Save One's Kin

Jiang Ding ordered the dozen or so Golden Core cultivators beside him to supervise with their divine senses and notify the other Golden Core cultivators. Then he stored these fourth-rank heavenly treasures, along with the seven Nascent Soul treasures, in his storage jade pendant.

Immediately after,

Jiang Ding ignored this place no longer. Sword light flashed, tore through space, and he appeared within the Scripture Repository.

The Hei Clan's wealth was extremely important to him now and could greatly accelerate his path of cultivation.

But in the long run, their inherited cultivation methods might be even more important.

Especially the original methods passed down by Celestial Lord Shuo Yang, which had never been altered by successive generations of Hei Clan Nascent Soul cultivators.

It was not that these cultivation methods were particularly profound.

Rather, they represented an entirely different line of thought!

Jiang Ding had a premonition that they would greatly promote the sudden inspiration he had experienced before, as well as his comprehension and development of the Metal-Extinguishing Sword—something like a catalyst.

"Greetings, True Lord!"

Wei Qingqing, Yu Zhong, and the other Golden Core cultivators clustered around the loftiest tower at the heart of the Scripture Repository, a place also known as the Black Tower. Seeing the figure who had cleaved through space with his sword, they respectfully bowed.

"Fellow Daoists, you have worked hard."

Jiang Ding nodded slightly and stepped into the Black Tower, which throughout history only direct descendants of the Hei Clan acknowledged by a Nascent Soul cultivator had been permitted to enter.

His divine sense swept the surroundings.

There were not many—only a little over a thousand cultivation manuals and books. Most concerned Nascent Soul spells, methods for refining Nascent Soul magic treasures, the insights of successive Hei Clan Nascent Soul cultivators, clan history, and