Chapter 825: Significant Increase in Profundity

"Husband, let's go check out the Cloud Sea Sect's treasure vault! Let's see what treasures they have," Wang Ruyan suggested with a smile. The Cloud Sea Sect's centuries of accumulated treasures would now benefit the Wang family.

The family had suffered significant financial losses from attacks on three strongholds, but fully taking over the Cloud Sea Sect's assets could help offset some of those losses.

Wang Changsheng nodded. He was also curious about how many treasures the Cloud Sea Sect possessed.

The three Foundation Establishment cultivators who had been guarding the treasury keys were dead, and the keys were now in Wang Ruyan's keeping.

Soon, they arrived at the Cloud Sea Sect's main treasury. A two-zhang-tall stone door appeared before them. Carved on the door was a lifelike monster that resembled neither bird nor beast. The stone door had three indentations.

Wang Ruyan took out three circular blue tokens and placed them into the indentations.

The stone door vibrated violently. The next moment, it emitted a dazzling blue light, and the monster on its surface seemed to come alive, letting out an extremely strange roar.

Immediately after, the stone door opened automatically, revealing a stone chamber about an *mu* in size to Wang Changsheng and Wang Ruyan.

Inside the chamber were dozens of tall stone shelves, each covered by a faint blue light screen. In the lower-left corner was a large red chest.

The shelves were filled with an abundance of items: jade slips, ores, magic treasures, jade boxes, and more. The sheer quantity was dazzling.

The stone walls of the chamber were inscribed with numerous profound runes, emitting a strong surge of spiritual power.

Out of caution, Wang Changsheng and Wang Ruyan did not immediately enter. Only the three Foundation Establishment cultivators who guarded the keys knew the full details of the Cloud Sea Sect's treasury. Wang Changsheng had interrogated them, but they had refused to betray the Cloud Sea Sect, preferring death over defection.

Wang Changsheng flicked his wrist, and a yellow light flew out, transforming into a yellow mouse. The Two-Eyed Rat was already a mid-grade third-tier beast, usually palm-sized, but capable of growing larger.

The Two-Eyed Rat curled into a ball, transforming into a yellow sphere, and rolled into the treasure vault.

Wang Ruyan released two puppet beasts, which scurried around the stone chamber without triggering any restrictions.

After confirming there were no issues, Wang Changsheng and Wang Ruyan confidently entered.

They approached the chest, opened it, and found it filled with thousands of storage beads. These beads contained numerous cultivation resources such as spirit stones, refining materials, demon cores, and talisman-making materials. The value of the contents in this chest alone exceeded five million spirit stones.

Just as "a horse cannot grow fat without night fodder, nor a man become rich without ill-gotten wealth," this sudden windfall came at the perfect time.

The Cloud Sea Sect had profited greatly from the major war decades ago, and all those assets now benefited the Wang family.

According to the records, there were over three million spirit stones, eleven magic treasures, various refining materials, various alchemy materials, ten third-tier demon cores, 352 Foundation Establishment Pills, twenty-five types of third-tier elixir recipes, and three sets of third-tier formation arrangement tools.

The most valuable items were five specific materials: a section of Illusion Sound Bamboo, a fourth-tier demon beast soul, an Illusion Demon Pagoda, a fourth-tier alchemist's alchemy notes, and a high-grade spirit stone.

Illusion Sound Bamboo is one of the top ten spiritual bamboos in the cultivation world, an excellent material for refining jade flute magic treasures, and a highly sought-after refining material for sound cultivators.

The fourth-tier demon beast soul was self-explanatory; if refined into a magic treasure, it could allow the treasure to materialize and attack, significantly increasing its power.

The Illusion Demon Pagoda was the most practical item. It could conjure first-tier to third-tier demon beasts to attack challengers. If a challenger faced life-threatening danger, they would be teleported out. Cultivation sects or families often used this treasure to train their younger generations and enhance their combat experience.

The Grand Elder of the Zhenhai Sect had not given Wang Changsheng an Illusion Demon Pagoda, either because they didn't have one or it was too advanced. It was said that the highest-grade Illusion Demon Pagoda could conjure Soul Transformation-stage demon beasts to attack enemies, but such a pagoda would already be a Heavenly Spirit Treasure.

The fourth-tier alchemist's alchemy notes would be useful for Wang Qingqi.

High-grade spirit stones were extremely rare, capable of both setting up fourth-tier formations and powering fourth-tier puppet beasts. It was unexpected that the Cloud Sea Sect possessed one.

Besides these items, the Cloud Sea Sect also had many other valuable assets, such as two Spirit Eye Trees. These trees could continuously generate spiritual energy and were more advanced spiritual objects than Spirit Eye Springs. While the density of spiritual energy from a Spirit Eye Spring depended on its size, a Spirit Eye Tree produced denser spiritual energy the older it was.

Cultivating near a Spirit Eye Tree could accelerate one's cultivation speed.

Of the two Spirit Eye Trees, one was seven hundred years old and the other a thousand years old. Additionally, there were two Spirit Eye Springs.

Both Spirit Eye Trees and Spirit Eye Springs were urgently needed by the Wang family. Previously, Wang Changsheng had destroyed a cultivation sect, but the majority of the spoils were taken by the Zhang family, leaving no Spirit Eye items for the Wang family. Given four Spirit Eye items, Wang Changsheng wasn't greedy; taking just the two Spirit Eye Trees would suffice.

Anyway, Cloud Sea Island's spiritual vein was already high-grade third-tier, so it didn't lack that spiritual energy. Silver Serpent Island's spiritual vein was only mid-grade third-tier; with two Spirit Eye Trees, its future advancement would be easier. Moreover, Wang Changsheng and Wang Ruyan could also accelerate their cultivation.

There were five spiritual medicine gardens, containing over five hundred spiritual herbs aged five hundred years or more, mostly planted when the Cloud Sea Sect was founded, and over three thousand spiritual herbs around three hundred years old.

The Cloud Sea Sect controlled two small metal mines and one small spirit shell mine, owned fifteen shops spread across four large market cities, and controlled seventy-seven islands with three million mortals.

All these assets would now belong to the Wang family, though officially they would remain under the Cloud Sea Sect's name.

A certain Core Formation cultivator's immortal abode contained a thousand-year-old cold bed. Wang Tianqi cultivated an ice-attribute cultivation technique, and cultivating on the thousand-year-old cold bed could accelerate her cultivation speed.

"If we can fully integrate these assets, our family's foundation will be further strengthened, accelerating our development," Wang Changsheng said with a smile, feeling very excited.

"Indeed," Wang Ruyan reminded him, "but we must be completely seamless. If Crocodile Island discovers any anomaly, we'll be in trouble." If Crocodile Island discovered the Wang family's deception, they would certainly not let it go.

Who would oversee the Cloud Sea Sect? Fairy Ziyue? Her cultivation was too high, easily raising suspicions from Crocodile Island. Wang Qingling was somewhat famous in the Red Moon Sea, so she wasn't suitable either.

Wang Changsheng planned to have Wang Qingjing oversee the Cloud Sea Sect. Of course, she couldn't show her true face, which wasn't difficult.

Wang Changsheng had three sons and one daughter, and now only Wang Qingjing remained. Wang Changsheng didn't want anything else to happen to her.

He intended to have Wang Qingjing and Fairy Ziyue oversee the Cloud Sea Sect. Firstly, Cloud Sea Island's spiritual vein had reached high-grade third-tier. Secondly, Wang Qingjing enjoyed refining puppet beasts, so she could learn puppetry from Fairy Ziyue.