King of Creation Chapter 1629 - 1614: Massive Haul
As far as the eye could see, there were spirit stones piled up like mountains.
This underground treasure vault beneath the Sun and Moon Divine Palace at the Shahe City Branch Temple didn’t actually cover a large area, being only two hundred meters long, one hundred meters wide, and one hundred meters high.
It was probably to ensure its safety, occupying such a small space, placing it at the very center of the Sun and Moon Divine Palace, directly beneath the base of the Sun and Moon God Monarch’s Divine Statue.
However, inside, there was an incredibly advanced stacked spatial formation. The efficiency of this spatial overlay almost matched the efficiency that Ye Zhen had seen inside Princess Changle’s spatial overlay.
A staggering forty times!
In other words, this treasure vault in front of him was actually a massive space stretching eight thousand meters long, four thousand meters wide, and four thousand meters high.
The spirit stones were piled up like small mountains.
Moreover, low-grade spirit stones were hardly visible, with the lowest grade being mid-grade spirit stones.
Sweeping his eyes casually, Ye Zhen discovered a variety of spirit stones piled up in this branch temple’s treasure vault. Just from a single glance, Ye Zhen saw mid-grade spirit stones, high-grade spirit stones, low-grade, mid-grade, high-grade attribute spirit stones!
However, Ye Zhen did not rush to take these spirit stones. His eyes quickly scanned, and his Divine Sense began to sweep the entire treasure vault space.
Such treasure vaults generally wouldn’t have guards, but some exotic beasts would be arranged for vigilance or recording purposes.
His Divine Sense only scanned halfway when Ye Zhen spotted a pair of blood-red, endless eyes within the light halo above the treasure vault.
Meanwhile, a series of urgent and sharp screeches echoed within the Sun and Moon Divine Palace of the Shahe City Branch Temple.
If it were usual times, the moment this screech sounded, Abbot Zhao Shi would immediately activate the underground formation restriction, using the formation-triggered Creation Spirit Light to seal the entire temple’s treasure vault, then slowly deal with the intruders.
But now, despite the sharp screech of the strange bird, no one paid any attention.
However, after just three screeches, the piercing sound abruptly stopped.
Inside the temple’s treasure vault, a flash of Thunder Light appeared, and the strange bird turned into ashes on the spot.
Ye Zhen’s Divine Sense swept the entire treasure vault multiple times to ensure there were no living beings before he began crazily collecting the spirit stones like mountains.
Ye Zhen had only one thought at this moment, that the space inside his Mirage Dragon Pearl was large enough. If it were an ordinary martial artist, they could do nothing but sigh at these mountain-like spirit stones due to limited storage space.
More than thirty-five million pieces!
While collecting, Ye Zhen roughly calculated that there were no fewer than thirty-five million pieces of mid-grade spirit stones here.
Even when converted to high-grade spirit stones, there were only three hundred thousand high-grade spirit stones, yet this number was still staggering.
High-grade spirit stones were only a tenth of the mid-grade spirit stones, yet the number still exceeded four hundred thousand high-grade spirit stones.
What surprised Ye Zhen the most was the presence of extremely rare supreme spirit stones here.
Because the Creation God did not bestow any divine soul protection within Zhao Shi’s Innate Divine Soul, upon Zhao Shi’s fall, the Creation Realm expert would immediately sense it.
Although the direct descent of a Creation Realm expert to the Shahe City Branch Temple was unlikely, the temple’s experts would definitely support the Shahe City Branch Temple in the shortest time possible.
Ye Zhen did not know how fast they could be, but he had to leave as soon as possible.
Thus, Ye Zhen swept right through, despite his divine soul power being greatly consumed.
Supreme spirit stones had spiritual power so pure that, without needing refining, they could be directly converted to cultivation after absorption and refining.
They were the best for cultivation, healing, and restoring cultivation. Ye Zhen also only had a few pieces, reluctant to use them except in critical moments.
And here, there were as many as three thousand supreme spirit stones!
The number of attribute spirit stones appearing thereafter nearly numbed Ye Zhen.
The smallest number of any low-grade attribute spirit stone type exceeded eight hundred thousand pieces, and the smallest number of mid-grade attribute spirit stones was more than thirty thousand pieces each.
As for high-grade attribute spirit stones, extremely rare items, even the least abundant wood attribute spirit stones had two thousand pieces.
The extremely rare thunder attribute and ice attribute spirit stones both exceeded three thousand pieces each.
Ye Zhen swept all these items into the Mirage Dragon Pearl frantically, with only one feeling at that moment—rich!
This time, it was really a big fortune!
With today’s sweep, Ye Zhen had basically recovered all the spirit stones he spent at the annual auction on the Five Immortals Island, and even more.
Because in this temple treasure vault, spirit stones only accounted for a third of the treasures, the rest comprised various heavenly materials and earthly treasures.
Demon beasts’ demon cores, soul pearls, various materials from demon beasts, and spirit plant herbs.
While collecting, Ye Zhen marveled at how powerful the Shahe City Branch Temple must be at stripping resources to possess such a massive amount of wealth.
However, after casually asking a few questions to Governor Yong Kun, Ye Zhen gained some understanding.
Despite the Shahe City Heavenly Temple Branch being small, it was the only authentic branch temple within millions of miles, while incense halls hosted by just one or two spirit masters per commandery, or even towns, numbered over ten thousand.
The wealth gathered from these myriad incense halls largely aggregated at the Shahe City Branch Temple, not to mention the various temple assets in the surrounding area owned by the Shahe City Branch Temple.
Especially since both the Tianming Marquis Country and the South River Marquisate tried their best to curry favor with the Shahe City Branch Temple.
The reason was simple: the Shahe City Branch Temple possessed the only powerful combat force within the Tianming and South River Marquisates capable of influencing the situation.
Even if the South River Marquisate was unwilling, knowing well that the Shahe City Branch Temple had closer ties with the Tianming Marquis Country, they had to hold their noses and cater to it.
Offering wealth, offering beauties, offering industries, offering heavenly materials and earthly treasures, in such a reciprocal manner, combined with the Shahe City Branch Temple’s own plundering, resulted in the Shahe City Branch Temple amassing such a vast fortune.
According to Governor Yong Kun, part of the temple’s assets was sent to the Heavenly Temple Sun and Moon Mountain, with the Heavenly Temple conducting this transfer every three years. Moreover, the location of the Shahe City Branch Temple contributed to its wealth.
However, this wasn’t the temple branch with the most wealth, as the wealth of the Shahe City Branch Temple was not considered much.
After all, in terms of believers, the Heavenly Temple Shahe City Branch Temple didn’t rank within the many branch temples of the Heavenly Temple.
Martial artists usually consume very little divine soul power when collecting various items into a storage ring with divine soul power, let alone Ye Zhen’s current Primordial Spirit manipulating items in storage space effortlessly.
But today, after the commotion within this temple treasure vault, Ye Zhen’s Primordial Spirit felt a bit fatigued.
That was a symptom of excessive divine soul power consumption within a short time!
However, Ye Zhen showed no intention of stopping.
His only desire now was to take everything from this temple treasure vault and leave as quickly as possible.
Since the Creation God did not endow any divine soul protection within Abbot Zhao Shi’s Innate Divine Soul, then upon Zhao Shi’s fall, the Creation Realm expert would immediately perceive it.
Even though the direct descent of the Creation Realm expert to the Shahe City Branch Temple was unlikely, it’s certain that the temple’s expert power would support the Shahe City Branch Temple in the shortest time.
Ye Zhen didn’t know how fast they could be, but he knew he had to leave as soon as possible.
Thus, Ye Zhen swept through rapidly, disregarding his exhausted divine soul power.
At the end, regardless of what kind of heavenly materials and earthly treasures they were, Ye Zhen threw them all into the Mirage Dragon Pearl without a second thought, intending to sort them out later.
At Ye Zhen’s sweeping speed, no matter how large the temple treasure vault space was, it was quickly cleared out. Shortly, Ye Zhen had reached the very end of this temple treasure vault.
However, when Ye Zhen saw the three piles of pills like small mountains at the innermost part of the temple treasure vault, his heart trembled violently.
"This Heavenly Temple Branch sure is damn wealthy!"
Psychic Spirit Pills, the three piles of pills at the innermost part of the temple treasure vault, were all Thought Spirit Pills that ordinary martial artists would struggle to get even one or two pieces of - Low Grade Thought Spirit Pill, Mid-grade Thought Spirit Pill, High Grade Thought Spirit Pill.
The number of Low Grade and Mid-grade Thought Spirit Pills was so many that Ye Zhen couldn’t count at a glance, yet just a single High Grade Thought Spirit Pill could let Ye Zhen cultivate for several months. As his eyes swept over the high-grade pills, his heart began to wildly thump!
Five hundred and thirteen!
Five hundred and thirteen High Grade Thought Spirit Pills!