Ye Chen soon learned just how many essence stones had formed the Essence Stone River.
After imprinting his soul mark upon the core of the Essence Stone Pool, Ye Chen gained a complete understanding of it. There were neither more nor fewer than ten billion essence stones in the Essence Stone River. Although Ye Chen had just taken out several tens of thousands of essence stones, the mouth of the giant beast head at the river's source was open, continuously spewing out essence stones. At its current rate, it could produce nearly three hundred thousand essence stones a day—one hundred million a year.
In other words, even if he took out every essence stone inside, the Essence Stone Pool would produce another ten billion essence stones after a hundred years. This was, without a doubt, a money tree, a treasure basin.
With a thought, Ye Chen took out ten million essence stones at once and placed them into his Storage Spirit Ring. In roughly a month, the Essence Stone Pool would replenish those ten million essence stones, and Ye Chen would gain another ten million.
"I won't need to worry about essence stones anymore."
Ye Chen let out a long breath.
A person's energy was limited; it was impossible to attend to everything. Whoever controlled more resources undoubtedly possessed an innate advantage. With the Essence Stone Pool, Ye Chen could set aside thoughts of earning essence stones and devote all his energy to the sword path. Everything existed to serve the sword path.
Putting away the Essence Stone Pool, Ye Chen began examining the entire stone chamber.
Unfortunately, aside from the Essence Stone Pool, there was nothing else in the chamber.
"Hmm?"
At the edge of the stone platform where the Essence Stone Pool had rested, Ye Chen spotted a