Nearly half a month later, at Little Plum Mountain Spirit Land.
Li Ping summoned Yan Hengchuan and Ji Shuchen.
When the two saw Li Ping, excitement glimmered in their eyes.
Over this period, Yan Hengchuan had finished collecting the useful materials from the Demon Beasts in the Cold Pool. Most had been first-tier Demon Beasts, with only a few dozen at the second tier.
Even so, by their rough estimate, those materials were worth over ten thousand Spirit Stones.
The cultivators of the Yan, Ji, and Yu lineages combined might not have produced so many resources even after a decade of managing their holdings.
Once they factored in remuneration for their lineage cultivators, benefits for the other low-level cultivators, and the cost of nurturing newly discovered cultivators with Spirit Roots, balancing income against expenditure...
In truth, to amass such a large sum, their entire lineages would have had to tighten their belts and scrape by for several decades.
And now?
With Li Ping's help, they had easily gained an unexpected windfall, greatly bolstering their lineages' reserves and strength.
Over the next century, as long as they developed steadily, the Three-Family Alliance would surely grow stronger step by step.
"Unfortunately, now that the Qingyun Secret Realm has been destroyed, we have no source of Foundation Establishment Pills. Otherwise... ah!"
Without Foundation Establishment Pills, their lineages' future growth was bound to be constrained. Even if descendants with outstanding Spirit Root aptitudes were born, they could only send them to sects for training.
Ji Shuchen and Yan Hengchuan both sighed inwardly.
But sighing was useless. Foundation Establishment Pills required Golden Marrow Jade Zhi at least seven hundred years old as their main ingredient.
For Spirit Materials of that caliber, only major powers with thousand-year legacies and third-tier Spiritual Veins generally possessed the Spirit