The Nine Provinces World had a long history, and many masters of earlier generations had left behind treasures large and small.
There was no need to look far: Pan Long himself had left behind two caches under the name of the One-Coin Hero. Besides gold, silver, and valuables, they held some martial arts manuals he had collected.
Of course, there were no divine weapons or rare treasures of heaven and earth. The techniques in those manuals could take someone to the Innate Realm at best. The bulk of each cache was still money.
He had gathered those treasures after killing and searching Greenwood bandits. He had already given the money that was easy to spend to the poor. The rest—jewelry and ornaments that he could not easily dispose of without revealing his identity—he had hidden away.
Either cache held enough for a dozen or so people to establish households, with more than their descendants could spend in several generations.
In all honesty, Pan Long was not an especially formidable master in the Martial World. At best, he was the sort of "rising star" who appeared every two or three years.
Yet even he could put together two caches like that with ease. What sort of treasures, then, might the true giants who could turn clouds with one hand and rain with the other have left behind?
Tales from the Martial World often told of young people finding a predecessor's treasure, mastering a divine art in no time, then roaming the Martial World to settle scores as they pleased. And most of the predecessors in those tales had not been particularly formidable.
What would the treasure left by someone considered a "peerless figure" in the early years of the Great Xia Dynasty be like?
At the thought, even Pan Long's breathing