After the battle at the Nether Abyss, the Five Demonic Sects had been annihilated. The vast legacy they had amassed over centuries lay before the Righteous Path Alliance like five mountains of gold and silver. Deep beneath Star-Magnetic Peak, the immense blessed cavern that had originally housed the Alliance Treasury had been expanded more than tenfold, yet it was still filled with mountainous heaps of spoils.
"Alliance Leader, the Ghost Spirit Sect's Ten Thousand Souls Tower has been breached. All thirty-seven thousand Soul-Gathering Pearls, eight thousand bottles of Yin Soul Marrow, and fourteen hundred ghost-path secret manuals collected over successive generations have been inventoried and deposited." Covered in dust, Shi Mang held a jade slip containing a detailed inventory, his voice heavy with exhaustion and astonishment. "There are also spirit stones: approximately 1.2 billion lower-grade, thirty-five million middle-grade, eight hundred thousand upper-grade, and... seven top-grade spirit stones!"
"From the Demonflame Sect's Heavenburn Grotto, we confiscated three hundred thousand tons of raw earthfire refined gold, fifty thousand crimson flame crystals, and eight hundred fire-attribute cultivation arts and secret manuals. Their spirit stone reserves were comparable to the Ghost Spirit Sect's, with middle-grade stones making up the majority," another Yellow Division steward reported.
"From the Joyful Union Sect's Crimson Joy Pavilion, we recovered six hundred texts on seductive arts and illusion techniques, twenty million middle-grade spirit stones, and eight hundred million lower-grade stones. There were also... five thousand rare medicinal plants, including special spirit herbs such as dream-drunk flowers and bone-eroding grass." A female cultivator added this quietly, an awkward blush coloring her face. Clearly, the Crimson Joy Pavilion's collection had been far too lurid and explicit.
"From the Spirit Controlling Sect's Ten Thousand Beast Mountain, we seized three hundred spirit beast eggs, eighty young beasts, four thousand beast souls, mountains of