The treasures hoarded by Great Qian's Rebel Kings, the treasures of its Imperial Treasury, spoils seized by government troops, the fat and marrow squeezed from the people across the land...
And Luli Academy's supreme treasure, the Book of Years...
A great heap of treasures that would have been considered superior magical treasures and pillars of a nation elsewhere lay piled together like rubbish. Countless rare curiosities, precious spirit medicines, and immortal materials had likewise been casually discarded.
Li Chen ordered Heavenly Pivot, "Sort these things out and find a warehouse to store them in."
He had made an enormous windfall in Great Qian, so vast that he had grown somewhat numb to it. He simply handed everything over to Heavenly Pivot to sort and organize without even counting it.
His Dao Path no longer depended much on the benefits such things offered. One or two ordinary treasures could hardly play a decisive role anymore. What mattered now was his mastery of the power of law and the Great Dao Origin, or the infrastructure-building and research capabilities of the forces under his command.
In actual combat, Li Chen had always been a Puppeteer who followed the Military Commander school's legion-based approach, and his attainments in the Puppet Dao had to complement it.
Putting these matters aside, Li Chen vanished from where he stood, using the power of Void Transfer available here to return to the skies above Heavenly Dragon Peak in the Vast Sea Domain.
Heavenly Dragon Peak was as prosperous as ever, and seemed to have grown even livelier.
Sixty years earlier, Broad Cloud Peak had been destroyed, and what had originally been a second-tier city here had begun developing rapidly. Many of the workshops and production yards under Li Chen's command had relocated along with it.
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