Each sect handed over three billion spirit stones, and more than five thousand sects had been affected by the eerie menace. That put tens of trillions straight into his hands!
"Hahaha!"
Ling Tianchen burst into wild laughter. He had hardly stopped laughing like this all month.
"Wait..." He suddenly realized something was wrong.
He hurriedly picked up the latest intelligence.
"No! This isn't right! Why has that eerie menace stopped?!"
Just a short while ago, a mysterious sect had disappeared or sealed its mountain every other day.
Sealing the mountain meant completely shutting off the entire sect, allowing no one in or out and isolating it from the outside world. In the Cultivation World, this was a form of withdrawal.
And this withdrawal was also an admission of defeat.
Because this isolation was no simple barrier. It incorporated absolute restrictions passed down from ancient times.
Anyone trying to break in or leave would trigger those restrictions.
These restrictions combined the strength of the entire sect for a final, desperate stand, shattering jade and stone alike and taking everyone down together.
Sects generally only chose to withdraw and activate this Ancient Forbidden Mountain-Sealing Array after losing a sect war.
Originally, quite a few elders in the Alliance had proposed finding a way to contact these sealed sects and uncover the source of the eerie menace.
But for the sake of the Ten Thousand Sects Alliance's "future," Ling Tianchen had ruthlessly rejected them.
What a joke!
Once they uncovered clues about that eerie menace, how was he supposed to fill the Ten Thousand Sects Alliance's treasury?
Who would protect these sects in the future?
He had only raked in a little over a hundred trillion. That was barely a start!
He had to rake in enough in one go!
Only after Ling