The immortal path in this world was fraught with hardship. No matter what Dao Foundation or Qi Ingestion power one belonged to, there could come a day of decline.
Thus, setting up several secret vaults stocked with inheritances and treasures... to serve as capital for descendants of a later age to rise again was perfectly ordinary.
But with one glance, Xu Hei saw that the location indicated by the treasure map was actually in the Outer Sea. That was anything but ordinary.
The Zeng Clan was, at most, a Dao Foundation Aristocratic Clan. Even if they had arranged secret vaults and hidden treasures, they would at most have wandered around Shu Land. How could they possibly have hidden them in the Outer Sea?
At that moment, the white-haired old man said, "This treasure map was passed down through my family together with the [Turtle Beak Fire] inheritance. It originated from Northern Zhou... Later generations were incapable, so we were never able to investigate it."
"That does make some sense. But the Zeng Clan has already been destroyed once. How did you manage to preserve it?"
Xu Hei narrowed his eyes slightly and inspected the land deeds and warehouse ledgers together with the other Dao Foundation cultivators.
The nearby Dao Foundation cultivators were like starving wolves, their eyes carrying a faint green gleam.
Seeing that Xu Hei remained silent, they could only forcibly restrain themselves.
Xu Hei smiled and said, "I am merely a businessman. This time, I have only come to collect some debts. So long as the Zeng Clan repays the principal and interest, everything can be discussed..."
Though he said that, with a sweep of his hand, more than half of the Zeng Clan's treasury was gone...
When the other Dao Foundation cultivators saw Xu Hei make his