Sword Dao Mastery and the "Flame Emperor" Domain

In the Cultivation World, aside from the Heavenly Palace, the Pill Sect and Artifact Sect were universally acknowledged as the wealthiest.

After all, almost every cultivator needed pills and weapons.

Within the Cultivation World, the Pill Sect and Artifact Sect supplied more than eighty percent of cultivation pills and weapons. Only some low-grade ones could perhaps be refined by people outside the Pill Sect and Artifact Sect.

Precisely because they were wealthy, the Pill Sect and Artifact Sect had always been harvested by the Heavenly Palace.

Taking the Pill Sect as an example, during the previous era of peace, among the Immortal Alliance's top thirty-two sects, other sects might only have needed to hand over forty percent, or even thirty percent.

Yet the Pill Sect had to hand over sixty percent of all pills refined throughout the year!

Especially the Breakthrough Pills of peak quality for every grade—they were basically monopolized by the Heavenly Palace!!

After monopolizing them, the Heavenly Palace would sell them on at sky-high prices!

Unlike other sects, the Pill Sect did not squeeze the minor forces or commoners within its territories, because it had never intended to expand its territory.

Other than refining pills, its source of income came from the tuition fees paid by countless people who came to study Alchemy Art.

Thus, those sixty percent of pills amounted to nearly half of the Pill Sect's income!

For that reason, the Pill Sect had grown accustomed to paying half its income. Now that it had joined the Heavenly Dao Sect, it hoped to maintain the same arrangement.

However, seeing that "Su Bai" remained silent, Dan Xuanzi knew that his request had gone too far.

Fifty percent had been during peacetime, after all.

Now, this was wartime!

When the Heavenly Palace demanded that they submit, it