Inside the residence.
Shen Wenyuan and the others took their seats alongside Jiang Ning.
"Brother Jiang, please have a look. This is the compiled inventory for the Immortal Crossing Sect." Shen Wenyuan handed over a booklet.
The pages were thick and still carried the scent of ink, clearly having been written only recently.
Jiang Ning accepted it and began to leaf through it.
The entries within were clear and organized by category.
Spirit materials and ores: Hundred-Forged Refined Iron ×× jin, Thousand-Forged Refined Iron ×× jin, Coldstar Iron ×× jin.
Medicinal pills:
Gold, silver, and valuables:
As Jiang Ning swiftly scanned through the entries one by one, his brows rose slightly.
Even though he had taken the wealth from the secret treasury and the pills from the pill chamber, the Immortal Crossing Sect's accumulated assets were still incomparably abundant.
He then quickly flipped to the final page.
Total value: 630,000 taels of gold.
Seeing that number, Jiang Ning could not help but draw a quiet breath.
Scattered individually, they did not seem like much, nor did they appear particularly valuable. Yet when added together, along with the sect foundation the Immortal Crossing Sect had accumulated over several centuries, they amounted to an astonishing fortune.
A total of 600,000 taels of gold.
Calculated in silver, one tael of gold equaled one thousand taels of silver.
That meant 6.3 billion taels of silver.
At five taels of silver being enough to support a family of five for one month—
6.3 billion taels of silver was wealth enough to sustain a population of one hundred million for an entire year.
In the blink of an eye, this calculation became crystal clear in his mind.
He also truly understood that in this world, those at the top and those at the bottom lived as