Chapter 395: Chapter 394: The Treasury of Seek Dao Sect_1

Yun Zhi had indeed forgotten about the patent fee. The Seek Dao Sect had two main sources of income; one was the patent fee from Hundred Refinement Peak, and the other was the elixir fee from Elixir Cauldron Peak. Both combined could support almost half of the sect’s operation.

Each month, the Fifth Elder and the Seventh Elder had to pay a portion of the spirit stones they collected to her, Acting Sect Master Yun Zhi, notably, the Fifth Elder paid several types of patent fees, among which were those that belonged to Lu Yang.

Yun Zhi had overlooked this oblivious.

She flipped through the account book and found Lu Yang’s patent fees.

“There are two months’ worth of patent fees for the flying car, a total of 110,000 spirit stones.”

The flying car, being a recent invention, had yet to gain popularity. The initial patent fee wasn’t considerable.

“Let’s go to the treasury to retrieve it.”

Lu Yang’s patent fee had been confiscated, hence it was necessary to withdraw it from the public account.

“The treasury?”

Both Lu Yang and Fairy Eternity were surprised, they didn’t expect the Seek Dao Sect to have a treasury.

But on second thought, even a rather poor place like the Nine Nether Sect had a treasury, so it made sense for the Seek Dao Sect to have one. If not, where would the sect store their funds?

It’s just that Lu Yang had never been exposed to it before.

“Is it far?”

“It’s located on Sky Gate Mountain.”

Yun Zhi walked down a winding pathway, then through a pine forest. This place had once been used for imprisoning Daoist Buyu. Walking around 200 meters from the pine forest, they finally arrived.

“It’s here.”

Under Lu Yang and Fairy Eternity’s gazes, Yun Zhi gently tapped on a stone wall. The stone wall turned into cracks and suddenly shattered, scattering around.

“This is it.”

Lu Yang was surprised. He hadn’t expected the treasury to be located at Sky Gate Mountain, more surprisingly, alertly, the treasury that was supposed to be the root of the sect and ordinarily being guarded by an elder, and protected by an array method for safety, didn’t have even a door guard at the Seek Dao Sect’s treasury?

Even if the Seek Dao Sect was protected by a big protective array and not afraid of external enemies, wouldn’t they be afraid of insiders sneaking into the treasury?

The Eldest Senior Sister wasn’t staying on Sky Gate Mountain all the time either, she also had her occasions to go out.

Fairy Eternity chuckled, “Who said there’s no guard?”

“Who is it?”

Fairy Eternity laughed mischievously and scrupulously did not respond to any questions from Lu Yang.

Both of them, sharing one body, entered the treasury amidst their bantering and closed their mouths.

In the treasury, there were all sorts of treasures that Lu Yang had never seen before; some were heaven and earth treasures, and others were refined artifacts. The functionality and grade of these items were unclear.

Fairy Eternity recognized all of them.

“The landscape painting contains the entire land. It’s the work of a great painter and serves to stabilize the kingdom. It is also known for being ancient and terming with the state destiny. It possibly belongs to the glorious Great Yu Dynasty.”

“Can you see the red-colored small tripod? It was forged from Blood Stripe Iron, which can be found in extremely harmful environments such as the deep sea, glacier origin, and the deepest part of a star nucleus… a natural creation. Some people even say the bloody pattern on the iron is the blood of the god, which is overexaggerated. Blood Stripe Iron is rare worldwide and generally used for offense. Even the size of a fingernail could cause a battle among the adepts at the Unification stage, not to mention such a huge piece.”

“Look at this fruit, despite its transparent and jade-like appearances, it is indeed a fruit named Qingming Jade Fruit. One such fruit can turn a mixed five-element spirit root into the pure single spirit root, and it is up to you to decide what spirit root it will be.”

“Essence of ocean soul named ocean soul crystal…”

“Shield forged from Xuanhuang Qi…”

“These are all great stuff.” Fairy Eternity seemed slightly surprised as the treasures stored in the treasury were beyond her expectations.

A stockpile only second to Immortals.

Despite being the head of the Five Immortals of the Ancients, she was the poorest among them. With fewer planets and smaller territories resulting in fewer tributes, sometimes she even had to play dead to cheat for money.

Even then, she was richer than Seek Dao Sect!

Apart from the Five Immortals in ancient times, there were numerous individuals who managed to reach the Transcendance Tribulation Stage. These individuals established large and small forces of their own. The cache of the Seek Dao Sect was comparable to the largest force existing among those at the Transcendance Tribulation Stage!

Lu Yang spoke with a hint of pride, “The Seek Dao Sect has been standing tall for 120,000 years, having been guided by Daoist Xiantian, the sect founder; Celestial Master Guiyuan, the pioneer of the concept of Immortal Sects; Vast Sea Daoist Lord, the revitalizer of the sect; it’s not surprising we have these treasures!”

Fairy Eternity thought for a moment and accepted the claim.

After hearing Lu Yang’s prideful beat, Yun Zhi reminded, “Our Seek Dao Sect wasn’t this rich before. Vast Sea Daoist Lord had his reign 50,000 years ago, the wealth from his reign wouldn’t last till now, and there was also a period of recession in the sect about two or three thousand years ago. To keep the sect operating normally, we consumed quite a number of treasures. Most of the treasures you see now were tricked from the Nine Nether Sect about 900 years ago.”

Lu Yang: “…”

This was merely the outer ring of the treasury. Yun Zhi guided the two deeper into the treasury. The further they went in, the more valuable the treasures appeared.

When they reached about halfway into the treasury, Yun Zhi stopped. On either side were two mountains piled up with top-grade spirit stones.

Yun Zhi dug out ten high-grade spirit stones from the mountains of top-grade spirit stones. The valuable high-grade spirit stones seemed insignificant among the mountains of top-grade spirit stones as if they were impurities.

Ten high-grade spirit stones were equivalent in market value to 100,000 low-grade spirit stones.

However, that was the market price. In actual transactions, exchanging low-grade spirit stones for high-grade spirit stones would have an excess cost. Roughly ten high-grade spirit stones could convert into 110,000 low-grade spirit stones.

The control over Lu Yang’s body was now in the hands of Fairy Eternity. As Yun Zhi handed over the high-grade spirit stones, she noticed that Fairy Eternity was staring blankly into the depths of the treasury.

She realized that she had underestimated the Seek Dao Sect’s resources. It could possibly be more valuable than her personal treasure trove!

If the outer ring of the treasury was filled with materials and weapons for those at the Unification stage and the Transcendance Tribulation stage, then the two mountains of the top-grade spirit stones marked a clear dividing line. The inner part of the treasury was filled with semi-immortal level magic artifacts, talismans, and heaven and earth treasures that could be used by those at the semi-immortal level!

At the furthest depths of the treasury, there was a faint glow. It wasn’t clear what it was, but Fairy Eternity couldn’t determine what it was. But from its aura, it seemed like an unformed Dao fruit never seen before. No, this aura was stronger than that of a Dao fruit…

“Fairy? Fairy?” Lu Yang called out twice before Fairy Eternity came back to her senses.

“What happened?” he asked curiously.

“Nothing, I was just thinking that your sect’s resources barely match my title of being the number one for tens of thousands of years!” Fairy Eternity held her head high, full of confidence.

Leaving the treasury, Fairy Eternity handed the control over Lu Yang’s body back to him and he instantly turned pale.

“Damn, I was constantly using the Village in the Palm skill!”

Despite the fact that maintaining the Village in the Palm skill did not consume much spiritual essence, it couldn’t even support being used for a prolonged period.

He quickly canceled the skill and emptied the items in his palm, stones, branches, a duck quacking…

Looking at the duck that was flapping its wings and flying around, Lu Yang fell silent.

𝒻𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝘯𝘰𝑣ℯ𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝘮

Having Fairy Eternity on Sky Gate Mountain was troublesome enough; he couldn’t possibly adopt a duck now, could he?

…

When night fell, the smell of roast duck filled the air.

After a struggle, Lu Yang first won the battle against the duck, then against Fairy Eternity and finally earned the right to cook.

He brought the roasted duck that he had prepared to Yun Zhi, who had been patiently waiting for a while.