Using entries to cultivate immortality in chaotic times - Chapter 743: 250: "Brother Qiu, are there twelve statues in our Heavenly Palace?"_2

Chapter 743: Chapter 250: “Brother Qiu, are there twelve statues in our Heavenly Palace?”_2

So,

It was absolutely necessary to conduct internal investigations and make cuts in advance.

Lest Chen Qiu came knocking on their door, the situation could change dramatically. Although preemptive action might not guarantee complete safety, at least it demonstrated their stance—they could try to throw the responsibility entirely onto the shoulders of a certain disciple instead of directly burdening the sect. These were two entirely different matters.

…

Several months passed.

Almost a year had gone by since Chen Qiu had secured the Xuantian Throne when one day, as he sat cross-legged on the throne, he let out a long breath of foul air and slowly opened his eyes to look at the Cultivation Progress panel floating above his Dantian—

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“Cultivation”: Void Refining Ninth Layer (100%).

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His Cultivation Progress was full; he had officially stepped into the peak of Void Refining.

In reality, he had reached the peak of Void Refining long ago, yet after the breakthrough, he didn’t emerge from seclusion right away. Instead, he circulated his mental method to consolidate his Cultivation Realm. Consolidating his realm didn’t use up many Spirit Stones; it only needed a basic supply of Spiritual Energy. On a typical day, a few hundred Mid-grade Spirit Stones were more than enough.

Meanwhile, the lion’s share of the daily consumption of the top-quality Spirit Gathering Array belonged to the Heavenly Palace.

“Huff…”

After Chen Qiu sighed in relief, he got up to shed the weariness of his long seclusion. There were not many Spirit Stones left; a few days ago, the brown bear had whispered to him that they were almost depleted.

Just in time.

It was also time to come out of seclusion. His current retreat in the Chao Tian Sect had lasted nearly a year.

Next, it was time to prepare for the breakthrough into the Body Integration Realm.

Just then—

The top-quality Spirit Gathering Array that had been maintained for several months suddenly dimmed, and the concentration of Spiritual Energy in the air weakened instantly. Subsequently, the disciples of the Chao Tian Sect inside the Heavenly Palace, noticing the change, opened their eyes one after another.

Their first instinct was to look towards Chen Qiu.

Seeing this, Chen Qiu chuckled, “Stop looking, we’ve run out of Spirit Stones. It’s time to come out of seclusion!”

As soon as he finished speaking,

The entire interior of the Heavenly Palace was suddenly filled with noisy voices, and Chen Qiu didn’t say much more. He simply walked outside the palace and took the remaining Spirit Stones from the brown bear’s hand, about over two hundred thousand.

All of the assets of the entire Chao Tian Sect combined amounted to just over two hundred thousand Spirit Stones.

That really was quite poor.

This was despite the fact that Liu Zide and the others returned once a month to replenish his supply, each visit increasing his cultivation speed by more than twenty times and bringing him a vast amount of heavenly materials and earthly treasures.

Thus far, the Caotian Sect had accumulated such a surplus of heavenly materials and earthly treasures that they were almost unable to store them all, resulting in no real need for them.

If these items could be liquidated, they would constitute a considerable fortune. Many of the treasures were of no use to the Chao Tian Sect. Chen Qiu himself didn’t even know what all he had; he only knew that the sect’s stores kept growing.

There were also various Spiritual Treasures. At first, these treasures were enough to arm all the disciples of the Chao Tian Sect. Later, as they accumulated in excess, the disciples became picky, using only their chosen items. Eventually, Spiritual Treasures were simply overflowing.

He estimated that if he were to liquidate all the heavenly materials and earthly treasures, along with the Spiritual Treasures, talismans, and other various items that had been collected over the years, he could easily convert them into at least tens of millions of Spirit Stones.

But… the problem lay here.

It was exceedingly difficult to liquidate these assets.

Selling to individual buyers would take forever, and the big traders on the Vast Continent were few and far between who could pay such a large amount of Spirit Stones at once. If they could do so, why would they buy? It would make more sense for Chen Qiu to just seize what he needed.

That was the problem.

After a seizure, not only were his vaults still full of treasures, but he would end up with even more, like an endless cycle.

He didn’t wait for the Spirit Stones to run out before coming out of seclusion; he kept a small emergency supply on hand to ensure that he wouldn’t be penniless when eating out.

He could rob the big traders,

But if he were to dine and dash, honestly, it would be rather embarrassing and lose face if the news spread.

However, the problem wasn’t significant.

In a few days, his traveling frog, Liu Zide, would be returning, and his wallet would swell again. He had already visited five of the eleven lower continents; some continents had delayed them longer than others, not due to Liu Zide’s inefficiency but because he sometimes forgot to pick them up, causing those delays.

After all, with so much on his mind every day, it was entirely understandable that he would occasionally forget certain things.

…

“Brother Qiu!”

Fat Long, full of energy, strode out of the Heavenly Palace. He hadn’t been cultivating there but had been engaged in Dual Cultivation with the mother dragons in the small world. He hadn’t done anything else the whole year and had focused solely on cultivation.

He was progressing well; his Cultivation had reached Divinity Transformation’s sixth layer.

“So…”

Seeing Chen Qiu after such a long time, Fat Long was a little excited at first, but then, remembering something, he hesitated and said a bit sheepishly, “Brother Qiu, those mother dragons are only at the Divinity Transformation Cultivation level, and they’re less and less useful to me. Could you get me some tripod furnaces with Void Refining Cultivation?”

“Sigh.”

Chen Qiu let out a long sigh, turned his head, and looked at Fat Long, “Can we not use the term ‘tripod furnace’? It makes you sound like a villain. Don’t ‘partner’ sound nicer? We can make progress together.”

“I’ll see what I can do. Once the state shackles disappear, I’ll have a look at the Dragon Clan Main Lineage on the Vast Continent and see if I can find you some new partners.”

“Didn’t you produce quite a few Dragon Cubs this year?”

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