Li Qiulan's calculations and probing were entirely unknown to Zhou Feng, and he did not care in the slightest.
Other people's suspicions and tests, the undercurrents and contests between factions—all of it was nothing more than insubstantial baggage to him.
The one hundred contribution points clenched in his hand were the true, tangible precious resources that could be transformed into the foundation of his own cultivation.
He had long since made up his mind.
Given his current foundation, ordinary Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures and high-grade cultivation resources were not things he urgently needed.
With the Silver Scale Gu's skin protecting him and the Shadowless Sword Gu dealing death, the foundations of his offense and defense were already solid. Piling up ordinary resources would bring only negligible improvement.
What he truly valued were the various ancient texts, secret records, cultivation methods, and, most crucially, scattered materials related to the Wisdom Gu that had been unsealed within the treasury.
Ever since last night's chaos had ended and news of the Wisdom Gu's emergence had completely spread, Nine Void Mountain's upper echelons had stopped deliberately concealing and suppressing related rumors.
Taking advantage of the treasury's opening, the authorities had simply released an enormous amount of derivative Wisdom Gu materials, deduction records, and preliminary Dao Path analyses, allowing any cultivator with contribution points to exchange for them without conditions.
This move appeared to benefit the masses and repay low-level cultivators, but it concealed an exceedingly profound scheme.
As Zhou Feng hurried onward, his thoughts rapidly sorted themselves out, and in an instant, he saw through the true purpose of Nine Void Mountain's higher-ups.
First, they naturally wished to gather vast numbers of contribution points. By exchanging resources for them, they could drain everyone's merits, firmly seize the cultivation lifelines of low-level cultivators, stabilize