Chapter 751: Chapter 751
Fang Bai entered the Valley Master Hall of the "Ghost Doctor Valley," extending his divine sense beneath the floor of the great hall. Indeed, ten meters below the ground, he sensed wisp after wisp of Essence Energy fluctuations, which included both the Essence Energy released from Spiritual Medicines and that from Essence Stones.
"This underground treasury really does hold a considerable amount of cultivation resources!"
A gleam of wonder shone in Fang Bai’s eyes as he walked over to the Valley Master’s seat, his gaze intensively fixed on the armrest to the left of the seat; sure enough, he discovered a slight protrusion there. If one didn’t look carefully, it would indeed be hard to notice.
Fang Bai stretched out his hand and pressed hard on the protruding area, when suddenly a "rumbling" sound echoed, and a stone slab on the eastern side of the hall slowly sank, revealing an underground entrance.
An abundance of Essence Energy spilled out from that underground entrance, quickly filling the entire Valley Master Hall and even seeping outside the hall.
How could Fang Bai let this Essence Energy slip away in vain? He immediately circulated his cultivation technique, and his body produced a strong adsorption force, swiftly absorbing the Essence Energy filling the hall into his body, transforming it into strands of pure Essence Energy that merged into the Chaos Origin Energy within his Qi Sea.
Fang Bai, having absorbed a large amount of Essence Energy, felt invigorated as if injected with adrenaline. He strode toward the underground entrance and walked down the stone steps.
After passing through a narrow corridor and walking forward for over a dozen meters, his view suddenly expanded, and a vast underground treasury the size of a soccer field appeared before him.
Since its establishment, the "Ghost Doctor Valley" had accumulated a vast amount of wealth and cultivation resources over thousands of years. The essence of these accumulations was all stored within this underground treasury, controlled by successive Valley Masters of the "Ghost Doctor Valley."
The sight Fang Bai beheld now included not only the cultivation resources that martial artists coveted but also wealth that, if taken into the mundane world, would be enough to rival the wealth of nations.
The wealth was mainly gold and jewels, piled up like mountains and dazzlingly bright. The disciples of the "Ghost Doctor Valley" gathered these items not for their own expenses, it seemed, but to create various ornaments to wear or to decorate rooms and buildings.
Fang Bai had always lacked interest in gold and jewelry, and if it weren’t for considering some friends and relatives in the secular world who were keen on these things, he might not even spare them a glance.
Fang Bai planned to take a portion of the gold and jewelry that belonged to him back to the secular world for charitable causes, with the rest to be divided among the five major sects.
If the five major sects weren’t interested in gold and jewelry, he would have the Dragon Guard leader Long Jingtian take some back, delivering them to the Prime Minister to benefit the people of Huaxia.
As for the cultivation resources like Spiritual Medicines and Essence Stones in the treasury, Fang Bai would not be the least bit bashful about taking them.
He stuffed his Spatial Ring with the oldest of the Spiritual Medicines and some mid-grade Essence Stones and planned to distribute the rest that he couldn’t carry with the five major sects later on.
In this campaign against the "Ghost Doctor Valley," Fang Bai had contributed the most, so naturally, he should take the lion’s share. Fang Bai himself felt perfectly justified in doing so, and no one would make idle comments about it.
As a mighty sect within the Hidden Sect world, the "Ghost Doctor Valley" had vanished into thin air in this war. The territory of the "Ghost Doctor Valley" had become unclaimed land which Fang Bai intended to use as one of his cultivation places from now on. When free, he could bring his friends and relatives from the secular world who were following him on the Martial Dao to cultivate together in retreat for periods.
With abundant Essence Energy and far more cultivation resources than in the mundane world, cultivating here would effectively be doubly fruitful, greatly benefitting the enhancement of the martial artists’ cultivation realms.
Fang Bai was confident that the five major sects would never dare to oppose his control over the territory around the "Ghost Doctor Valley."
After all, in any world, the law of the jungle always prevails, and the strong rule. Whoever has the bigger fist, their word carries weight.
After doing a round inside the underground treasure vault, Fang Bai also discovered some cultivation techniques and martial arts inherited from "Ghost Doctor Valley," including some Heaven Level techniques. However, these were of no use to Fang Bai, so he decided to let the five major sects distribute them themselves, as a gesture of goodwill towards them.
The spiritual medicines Fang Bai stored in his spatial ring included a small amount of medium-grade ones that had matured for over five hundred years. The essence stones were mostly medium-grade Wood Element Stones. With these cultivation resources to aid him, Fang Bai believed he would be able to reach a new level of strength in the future.
By the time Fang Bai left the underground treasure vault and the Valley Master Hall, the situation outside was already decided.
The Supreme Elder Wei He from "Ghost Doctor Valley" was slain by Fang Bai; the Valley Master Li Ao was annihilated by the combined efforts of the sect masters from the five major sects; over half of the several hundred "Ghost Doctor Valley" disciples were executed, and the remaining submitted, only to have their cultivation disbanded by the disciples of the five major sects, turning them into cripples who could cause no further trouble.
"Brother Fang, how did it go? You must have found quite a fortune in the treasure vault, right?"
Seeing Fang Bai emerge, Long Jingtian approached with a smile and asked.
When Fang Bai entered the Valley Master Hall, Long Jingtian had tactfully chosen not to follow but was quite curious. He thought to himself that a millennium-strong sect like "Ghost Doctor Valley" must contain treasures incomparable to those of the sects and prominent clans of the mundane world.
Fang Bai replied with a smile, "Not bad, I did make a small fortune this time. In a while, when we head back to the treasure vault, you can also take some of the Essence Stone Elixirs, and there is also some gold and jewelry that you can bring back with you."
"Haha, this time I’m really basking in your glory, old brother!"
Long Jingtian was also a martial artist and, similarly, didn’t care much for wealth, but the Essence Stone Elixirs genuinely excited him. After all, such things were extremely scarce in the secular world, and as a Heaven Level martial artist, he needed them to assist with his cultivation.
Spying Mu Xiantian and others tidying up the aftermath, Fang Bai suddenly remembered something. He darted to the small island at the center of the lake and took the "Jade Soul Hook Rod" that Wei He had used, storing it in his spatial ring to later gift to Su Linglong.
The "Jade Soul Hook Rod" was a Wood Element attack spiritual artifact, and Su Linglong possessed an Innate Wood Spirit Root. For a Wood Spirit Root martial artist to use a Wood Element spiritual artifact was supremely beneficial; it couldn’t be more suitable.
It wasn’t long before Mu Xiantian and the other sect masters from the five major sects eagerly joined up with Fang Bai and Long Jingtian.
"With ’Ghost Doctor Valley’ gone, our major worry has been eliminated. From now on, the Hidden Sect World in the Kunlun Mountains region will be much more peaceful,"
Mu Xiantian said with a smile.
"Indeed, all this has been made possible thanks to Senior Fang!" Gui Hongzhi added.
The other sect masters nodded in agreement, looking at Fang Bai with both awe and excitement.
Slaying a high-rank Heaven Level powerhouse with Earth Level Perfection cultivation was not something unheard of in the Hidden Sect World, but it was certainly unprecedented, and such a peerless genius had boundless prospects. Given time, he was sure to become a dominant power within the Hidden Sect World.
"I just went around the ’Ghost Doctor Valley’ treasure vault, and there are quite a few items there. Let’s go in together and have a look, then we can distribute them!"
Fang Bai said to the excited Mu Xiantian and the others.