The Heartless Great Sun Sword Heir

"Sixty million low-grade spirit stones."

"Sixty million low-grade spirit stones a year... Somehow, it still feels like too little."

Jiang Ding muttered to himself.

If a Golden Core cultivator heard him say that, their eyes would turn red. Blinded by jealousy, they might even come at him swinging a hammer.

Ordinarily, a Golden Core cultivator's entire fortune amounted to only a few tens of millions.

Of course, that did not include vast quantities of first- and second-tier goods. Golden Core cultivators rarely collected such low-tier things deliberately, keeping some only now and then to reward subordinates and juniors or raise their descendants.

Even so, the wealth of the entire Land of the Three Kingdoms gathered in one person's hands was a frightening sum.

Piled up, it could form a small mountain without any trouble.

"It really is a little too little."

Jiang Ding thought for a moment, then spoke again.

His own expenses were minimal. A top-grade third-tier spirit vein was all he needed. He required neither water nor food; a Golden Core cultivator could already draw spiritual energy from the air to stay alive.

But

he had two terrifyingly large expenses.

First came the refinement of the Supreme Clarity Flying Sword. Once a year, he needed to buy No. 21 Synthetic Geng Metal, at a cost of thirty million low-grade spirit stones plus a great deal of Gold-Copper Stone to secure priority in the queue.

Second came the refinement and maintenance of the Great Sun super battleship.

That was truly frightening. The Great Sun was a Nascent Soul-tier battleship, a fourth-tier Nascent Soul treasure, and an extravagantly luxurious model at that.

Refining it once a year cost 350 million low-grade spirit stones!

For all that expense, this was still the budget version.

It needed only large quantities of first-,