After settling simply into a secluded Cave Abode in Taiyi City, Lin Yi began spending his days constantly on the move, traveling between the city's major top Merchant Alliances and long-established treasure pavilions.
His goal was extremely clear: gather every extraordinary inheritance available for purchase in the Source Realm.
Unlike other Emperor Cultivators, who focused only on high-level Emperor Laws and meticulously refined divine abilities, Lin Yi accepted everything.
As long as the low-level extraordinary techniques and obscure side-path inheritances on the market differed in their principles and held reference value, he bought them all—whether they were incomplete, fragmented, unsystematic, or had not even reached the threshold of the Emperor Realm.
The "garbage inheritances" in others' eyes were all tiny puzzle pieces for perfecting his own Dao path.
What he needed now was not to specialize in a single method, but to study countless methods, see through the shackles of countless methods, and only then truly transcend the Source Realm's inherent framework to forge an entirely new Imperial path of his own.
Such reckless, cost-free bulk purchasing was astonishingly expensive.
In just over ten days, Lin Yi had spent tens of millions of Void Crystal Coins.
An ordinary Emperor Realm cultivator would have been heartbroken by such expenditure, but Lin Yi had no such concerns.
After infiltrating Mixed Immortal Evil Venerable's forces and subsequently helping wipe out that entire evil army, he had learned while sorting through the spoils that his gains far exceeded his expectations.
In solid Void Crystal Coins alone, he had accumulated more than 23 billion. That did not even include the mountain-like piles of high-level Emperor Materials, various treasures, Emperor Evil spiritual materials, and other resources.
This was because, five years earlier, Mixed Immortal Evil Venerable had led that evil army through countless campaigns, conquering more