But the sheer number of Loose Cultivators meant that many of the Primordial World's resources had ended up in their hands. What each one possessed might be meager and nothing precious, but add it all together and the total was astronomical!
Besides, could so many Loose Cultivators have no savings or treasures at all? Those were resources to be seized too!
Wiping out the Loose Cultivators was, in other words, a campaign of plunder—a chance to strip the Primordial World of its wealth!
Chapter 3124: Enormous Gains
Even if the Loose Cultivators had no resources, they were resources themselves! Whatever form they had taken through Transformation, they had value. Beasts could be eaten, medicinal herbs used as ingredients, and transformed ore turned into refining materials!
Even if they were not used that way, the slaughter could turn up capable Loose Cultivators to serve as cannon fodder!
And the Loose Cultivators were not all weaklings. Some were Great Powers with considerable resources of their own. Subduing a Great Power of the Primordial World would be a worthwhile gain too!
Before the Dragon-Phoenix Calamity, the Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin Clans had done much the same thing. They had secretly formed an alliance, then purged the Primordial World together. Countless races that had refused to submit to the three clans were exterminated, cementing their dominance!
Naturally, they had seized vast resources in the slaughter. The countless treasures that had made the Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin Clans so wealthy had all been plundered from their victims!
They had killed the disobedient races of the Primordial World and either slaughtered or subdued its Loose Cultivators. Back then, only Hongjun, Luo Hou, and a few others had escaped the purge because they were powerful enough to make Ancestor Dragon and the others wary. Otherwise, Hongjun