Three Rules and the Spoils of War

Throughout history, there have been countless Demon-Refining Supreme Treasure and even the most supreme Pure Yang Supreme Treasure in this world that have been destroyed in the Abyssal Demon Calamity.

If it falls into slumber now and is unable to regain its power a thousand years later, it will have no choice but to lose its freedom and seek the protection of Nascent Soul True Lord.

However, Law Treasure are ultimately just external objects to Nascent Soul Cultivator. Once they fall into the hands of Nascent Soul Cultivator, they are powerless to resist and must be destroyed to protect their master from calamities when necessary.

Finally, Vast-Heaven Mirror made a decision. Its illusory light swept across the heavens and earth, and finally spoke to Jiang Linglong.

"I can stay out of this battle, but you need to agree to three conditions."

"Please speak, Your Excellency."

Jiang Linglong nodded. The preciousness of the Demon-Refining Supreme Treasure was almost equivalent to that of half a Nascent Soul True Lord, which made it worthy of her respect.

The Vast-Heaven Mirror paused slightly, and its soft light spread across the heavens and earth like water.

"Firstly: The Azure Sun Sect has served us for over a thousand years, and we have developed a certain affinity for them. You must not do something to destroy them."

"Secondly: Now that you have taken over the Azure Sun Sect, you must protect the peace of the Chu Kingdom and take it upon yourself to slay demons and monsters."

Thirdly: You shall make offerings to me, so that I may draw upon the energy of the Subterranean Fire Vein Azure Sun Mountain and accumulate sufficient power.

Vast-Heaven Mirror paused, then continued, "In exchange, I can protect your forces if necessary."

"Ancestor, Ancestor..."

Seeing that Vast-Heaven Mirror was about to change its mind, Xu Patriarch panicked on the spot.

He cried out and was about to step forward to plead for mercy, but the light from the Vast-Heaven Mirror trembled slightly, sweeping him away.

The Vast-Heaven Mirror was once the Life-bound Supreme Treasure of a Nascent Soul True Lord. Its original owner was a righteous True Lord who could not tolerate any injustice, so its personality also inherited some of the original owner's uprightness and integrity.

Xu Patriarch had plotted against his senior brother to seize power, and this Demon Demon-Refining Supreme Treasure itself didn't think much of him. Now, it was natural that he finally decided to settle his karmic Karmic Retribution with the Azure Sun Sect.

At this moment, Jiang Linglong nodded and calmly said, "Even if you didn't tell me, I would have done these three things."

"Having been stationed at Heavenly Ruins Mountain for over two hundred years, I am somewhat familiar with your name."

I'll believe you for now.

Seeing that Jiang Linglong had agreed to the three rules, Haotian Mirror finally decided not to interfere and sank into the underground fire vein of Qingyang Mountain.

Upon seeing this, the Purple Abyss Furnace in the distance fell silent for a moment before disappearing into the world with a boundless purple light.

"Want to run away--"

But at this moment, Xu Patriarch tried to take the opportunity to escape again.

But how could Jiang Linglong let the tiger return to the mountain? She summoned the Heavenly Ruins Immortal-Slaying Sword and chased after it.

Chen Nianzhi did not give chase. Xu Patriarch was already seriously injured and had no chance of escaping Jiang Linglong's pursuit.

After taking a healing pill to stabilize his injuries, he led the group to pursue the Azure Sun Sect cultivators. Although they would not exterminate all the Azure Sun Sect cultivators, they would definitely not let the wicked cultivators go unpunished.

Over the years, the Azure Sun Sect has become rotten to the core. The cultivators of the Azure Sun Sect during the time of the two old sect leaders, Patriarch Mo and Liu Patriarch, were still relatively good, but the younger the cultivators, the more evil they committed.

Even before the war began, each major Lineage had already compiled a list of those they were determined to kill based on past grudges.

Along the way, Chen Nianzhi killed many Azure Sun Sect cultivators, took control of the sect's core formation, and secured several key resources such as the treasure vault, spirit medicine garden, Scripture Repository, and Subterranean Fire Vein. Then he arranged for the cultivators to begin cleaning up the battlefield.

Not long after, Jiang Linglong flew back on her sword.

She glanced at Chen Nianzhi and said with a smile, "Finally, this scoundrel has been slain, ridding the Chu Kingdom of a great scourge."

Chen Nianzhi nodded, and taking advantage of the fact that no one was around, he pulled her into his arms and smiled, "After this great battle, we will finally have a foothold in the Chu Kingdom."

"Um."

A hint of joy flashed in Jiang Linglong's eyes. With Tier 4 Spirit Vein in hand, plus Tier 4 Subterranean Fire Vein, her cultivation would be much smoother in the future.

Without much tenderness, Chen Nianzhi began to process her harvest from Heavenly Ruins Mountain.

Jiang Linglong didn't have many capable subordinates. Apart from the few hundred disciples and grand-disciples of Heavenly Ruins Mountain, the only ones she could use were the thousands of cultivators from the Chen Clan who participated in the battle.

The people from Heavenly Ruins Mountain and the Chen Clan were scattered into various formations, not only to participate in the battle but also to use Law Artifact to record the results.

This achievement was both to record merit and to prevent anyone from embezzling funds.

After all, tens of thousands of cultivators participated in this battle. Without Law Artifact to record the detailed battle situation, not only would the battle achievements be difficult to count, but the participating cultivators might also secretly conceal the results of the battle.

Chen Nianzhi was also very busy. The Foundation Establishment elders of the Lineage were currently tallying the results of the battle, and some people were also taking stock of the supplies in the spirit medicine Garden's Scripture Repository.

All of these need to be compiled and submitted to him for his approval.

Fortunately, cultivators have excellent eyesight and memories far exceeding those of ordinary people, so they can handle these matters very quickly.

After a full two weeks of tallying, the results of this operation were finally completely processed.

"..."

Two weeks later.

On this day, the Chen Clan cultivators, together with the cultivators from Heavenly Ruins Mountain, finished checking the supplies and battle merits again.

After multiple checks and confirmation that everything was correct, the ledger was handed over to Chen Nianzhi and Jiang Linglong for review.

Although the two already had a general idea of the resources they had acquired, they still felt a surge of excitement when they received the ledger.

After reading it, Jiang Linglong summoned the Purple Mansion cultivators from various Lineage and then spoke.

"In this battle, forty-seven Foundation Establishment cultivators, over five thousand six hundred Qi Refining Cultivator, and one Purple Mansion cultivator perished."

"Given the success of this battle, in addition to the original standard, let's issue an extra 50% in Spirit Stone as compensation."

"Thank you, Fairy Jiang."

Upon hearing this, everyone showed joy.

Because of the vast difference in the number of cultivators on both sides, the number of cultivators killed in this battle was not particularly high.

However, there were also five or six thousand cultivators. If each of these cultivators received an extra half the amount of Spirit Stone as compensation, the total would amount to hundreds of thousands of Spirit Stone.

Jiang Linglong's eyes flickered slightly, silencing everyone, and then she said:

"Everyone contributed significantly to this battle. Take a look at the ledgers; they record the spoils of war and the merits of your respective Lineage."

"If there are no objections after reviewing this, then let's discuss the distribution of the treasure."

Everyone took the ledger, and a look of surprise appeared on their faces.

This battle was a resounding victory, the annihilation of a major power, and the amount of supplies seized was enormous.

The Azure Sun Sect's assets are mainly divided into three parts: fixed assets such as Spirit Mountain, Earth Vein, and Spirit Field; scriptures in the Scripture Repository; and floating assets such as Spirit Stone, Law Treasure, and flying swords.

Among them, the Spirit Mountain Earth Vein are the most valuable. Although after Jiaoyang Mountain was lost, Azure Sun Sect Earth Vein lost two or three Spirit Mountain ley lines.

However, it still possesses thirteen Spirit Vein and six Earth Vein, which constitute its largest assets.