59: Massive resource allocation

“…”

Long Aotian’s words left Long Aoxue completely stunned.

As if foolish, she pushed Long Aotian away and stared blankly at him for several seconds. Afterward, her eyes grew brighter and brighter until they finally regained their usual sparkle.

How could she have forgotten about this?

So embarrassing, utterly embarrassing!

Just as Long Aoxue’s face flushed red with shame, wishing she could find a hole to crawl into, Long Aotian pulled out ten storage rings, flicked them, and sent them flying toward them under the control of his Divine Sense.

“…”

The Ten Disciples exchanged glances.

What did the Young Lord mean by this?

Seeing their expressions, wanting to take them but too embarrassed to, Long Aotian couldn’t help but smile slightly: “Take them. This Young Lord is giving them to you!”

When Mei, Lan, Zhu, Ju, and Xue went to find Yu Zhouhonghuang Wu and returned, Long Aotian had already prepared these ten storage rings for them.

Upon hearing this, the Ten Disciples all looked at each other. Finally, Long Aoxue, who was as poor as a church mouse, was the first to reach out, triggering a butterfly effect.

“Two li in radius? This is a High Grade Ninth-Tier storage ring?”

The Ten Disciples were all stunned.

They hadn't expected the storage rings Long Aotian gave them to be so Advanced, so Advanced that it wasn't a pleasant surprise but a shock.

In fact, what Long Aotian often said about his father's storage ring having less than one li of space was actually quite substantial.

Exceeding one li in radius meant it was a Ninth-Tier Magical Artifact.

His father's Clan Chief storage ring, though less than one li in radius, still covered several hundred meters, making it at least a Seventh or Eighth-Tier storage ring used by Soul Emergence Realm and Divided Soul Realm experts.

This storage ring was not simple; it was an Opportunity obtained by the Long Family’s Great Ancestor a hundred years ago.

Otherwise, how could the Long Family, whose highest cultivation now was only the Great Ancestor at the Early Stage Soul Emergence Realm, possess such an Advanced storage ring?

Now, Long Aotian directly gave them Ninth-Tier Medium Grade storage rings with a spatial scale of two li in radius. How could this not move them?

The value of just the storage ring Long Aotian gave each of them was incalculable.

Long Aotian also hadn't expected the storage rings used by the Shi Family’s Nascent Soul Realm, Soul Emergence Realm, and Divided Soul Realm experts to be so Advanced, but he quickly understood when he thought about it.

What kind of place was the Eastern Barrens?

It was a trapped beast land, isolated overseas, surrounded by Yunmeng Marsh, where one essentially couldn't leave without Immortal-tier Magic Treasure defenses.

Before the great war involving Ao Zhan and others, this place was once a land where martial arts flourished and experts were as numerous as clouds. But after suffering a great disaster, isolated overseas for hundreds of thousands of years, wave after wave of Tribulation Transcendence Realm experts began to continuously pass away.

What about their storage rings?

They couldn't bring them in life or take them in death.

Ultimately, they fell into the hands of newcomers.

Dragon War God happened to discover an Immortal Cave, which contained several withered bones of deceased experts. He took several storage rings from the finger bones of those experts, and with the help of the items inside the storage rings, he led the Long Family onto the path of martial arts and immortality, emerging from Long Village.

When the Eastern Barrens and the Eastern Continent were connected, how many Tribulation Transcendence Realm experts were there in the Eastern Barrens?

There were probably eight thousand, if not ten thousand.

Most of the storage rings of these deceased experts were controlled by the Cloud Palace, the Imperial Family, the Three Great Cloud Sects, and the Five Great Cultivation Families of the Imperial City.

Only a small portion fell into the hands of the Imperial City Cultivation Families and other fortunate small cultivation forces.

As the head of the Five Great Cultivation Families of the Imperial City, the Shi Family might not have many Tenth-Tier storage rings, but they could certainly equip over a hundred Family Guardians with Ninth-Tier storage rings without any pressure.

Even the Nascent Soul Realm Family Elders of the Shi Family used Ninth-Tier storage rings.

What was barren in the Eastern Barrens was cultivation resources, not the various Magical Artifacts used by Cultivators.

Quite the opposite of cultivation resources, as the cultivation resources in the Eastern Barrens became increasingly scarce, the experts at the top of the pyramid in the Eastern Barrens were becoming fewer in number and lower in Realm. Consequently, Magical Artifacts in the Eastern Barrens became more and more abundant, and it was very common for people to have several Magical Artifacts each.

But if you were to say that the Cultivators of the Eastern Barrens each possessed several High-Tier Magical Artifacts that Cultivators in the Central Continent couldn't buy even with hundreds, thousands, or even hundreds of millions of High-Grade Spirit Stones, making them incredibly wealthy, they would get angry with you and complain about their poverty… The Cloud Palace, the Imperial Family, the Three Great Cloud Sects, and the Five Great Cultivation Families of the Imperial City—these major cultivation forces with Legacies of at least tens of thousands of years in the Eastern Barrens—their foundations were simply beyond the imagination of the Long Family, a newly rising cultivation Family that had emerged in just over a hundred years.

This was also why, when Long Aotian casually gave the Ten Disciples Ninth-Tier storage rings with a size of two li in radius, the Ten Disciples were shocked by Long Aotian’s generosity.

Because even their Long Family’s Clan Chief, and even the Old Ancestor, couldn’t afford such High-Tier storage rings.

However, what shocked them even more was yet to come.

Each storage ring contained one million Low-Grade Spirit Stones, one million Medium Grade Spirit Stones, one hundred thousand High-Grade Spirit Stones, one hundred thousand Top-Grade Spirit Stones, ten Magical Artifacts of various non-low grades, several bottles of various High-Tier healing Medicinal Pills, and several bottles of Medicinal Pills to aid Cultivation.

In addition, Long Aotian also placed ten bottles of the quasi-Top-Grade Fire Spirit Spring he collected within the Shi Family’s defensive grand formation into each storage ring.

Numb!

Truly numb!

With so many cultivation resources, they wouldn't have to worry about cultivation resources even if they Breakthrough to the Soul Emergence Realm.

After the shock came endless excitement and emotion!

The Young Lord was truly too good to them; when had they ever been so rich?

Perhaps, even the Long Family’s Clan Chief, and even the Old Ancestor, did not have as many Family cultivation resources under their control as the cultivation resources in any one of the storage rings Long Aotian gave them.

Holding the feather-light storage rings, the Ten Disciples felt them heavy, as if they were holding something heavier than the entire Eastern Barrens. Each of them was both excited and moved, with tears welling up in their eyes.

Especially the five female Disciples—Mei, Lan, Zhu, Ju, and Xue—who were the most emotional, completely overwhelmed by Long Aotian’s kindness. If Long Aotian hadn't had the foresight to fly into the air, he would probably have been embraced by them again, his cheeks kneaded into small biscuits.

“You ten, Cultivate well. Whoever is the first to Breakthrough to the Golden Core Realm, this Young Lord will reward with one hundred thousand Top-Grade Spirit Stones!”

“Really?”

The Ten Disciples exclaimed, their eyes lighting up as they looked at Long Aotian.

“Absolutely true!”

“Young Lord, may I ask how many Spirit Stones you currently have?”

“Which grade are you referring to?”

“Top-Grade!”

“That’s hard to say. In any case, giving you one hundred thousand as a reward is nothing to me.”

Long Aotian understood the principle of not flaunting wealth. Although he wanted to nurture the Ten Disciples, this did not mean he could tell them his entire fortune without reservation.

Especially the Nine Treasures Glazed Chaos World Tower, Long Aotian had never considered letting a second person know about it.

“Young Lord, what exactly have you experienced these past two years that you’ve changed so much? You couldn’t really be the Reincarnation of some powerful being, could you?”

Long Aomei asked with some surprise.

“The Reincarnation of a powerful being?”

Long Aotian immediately rolled his eyes and said irritably, “Have you ever seen a powerful being in Reincarnation torment himself like this for Cultivation? This Young Lord merely risked his life to enter Immortal Severing Mountain, which is the Dragon Mountain behind our Long Village, just to be able to Cultivate.

There, I obtained some Opportunities and finally embarked on the path of martial arts and immortality.

Speaking of which, the war between our Long Family and the Shi Family is also related to me.”

“What?”

The Ten Disciples were stunned again.

This matter was actually related to the Young Lord?

But didn’t the Family say it was because Shi Gandang inexplicably almost killed the Clan Chief?

What exactly happened in all of this…