"Deal!" Luo Tinghe slapped the armrest of her chair so hard that it shattered into dust.
"Senior Sister!" Yu Xiangdie didn't know whether to laugh or cry. They were discussing a matter of marriage, not haggling over some commercial transaction—what was there to "deal" about?
But the numbers Yang Kai had thrown out had genuinely shaken him. A thousand sets of sixth-grade supplies, a hundred sets of seventh-grade supplies—if converted into Open Heaven Pills, that would be a staggering forty to fifty billion!
And that was merely a straightforward value conversion. In truth, sixth-grade and seventh-grade Yin-Yang attribute resources were things that Open Heaven Pills simply could not buy, let alone such massive quantities of strategic materials in the current state of the world!
The entire Yin-Yang Heaven didn't have that much in reserves.
One could say that a hoard of this magnitude, placed in any of the Blessed Lands or Blessed Grounds, would be enough to make anyone's heart race. And with these supplies, Yin-Yang Heaven would have no worries about its disciples' advancement for at least the next thousand years.
She snapped back to reality. "Is this what you meant when you told Sect Leader you could bring Yin-Yang Heaven more capital for producing eighth-grade Open Heaven cultivators?"
Yang Kai smiled. "It is."
With such abundant resources as a guarantee, combined with the nourishment of the World Tree from the Star Boundary, the future of Yin-Yang Heaven would undoubtedly see a wave of disciples capable of breaking straight through to the sixth and seventh grades. Every single one of those people could then slowly advance to the eighth grade.
Eighth-grade Open Heaven—Yang Kai couldn't create that. He himself was only at the sixth grade. But these resources he'd offered were the indispensable ingredients for producing eighth-grade Open Heaven cultivators.
Compared to that, Qu Huashang marrying Yang Kai was not entirely unacceptable.
Precedents could be broken, if the price was high enough.
If the higher-ups of Yin-Yang Heaven heard this news, they would certainly give it serious thought.
"Where did you get so many Yin-Yang resources of the sixth and seventh grades?" Yu Xiangdie's face was a mask of disbelief. She had a general understanding of the situation at Void Land and Lingxiao Pavilion, and while the new great domain was shrouded in mystery, there was no way it could have furnished Yang Kai with this many treasures.
Then, mid-question, she suddenly realized. "The Chaotic Death Domain!"
If there was one place in all the world where Yin-Yang attribute resources were most abundant, it was none other than the Chaotic Death Domain. That was the place where the Grand Sun Radiance and the Grand Moon Luminescence had waged eternal war against each other for countless ages, their Yin-Yang powers colliding and giving birth to unimaginable quantities of Yin-Yang attribute resources.
But the Chaotic Death Domain was incomparably perilous. Even the eighth-grade Supreme Elders guarding the domain gate could only linger at its edges for brief periods—stay too long and their lives would be at risk.
Yu Xiangdie had never entered the Chaotic Death Domain. The eighth-grade Supreme Elder currently stationed there hailed from another Blessed Land. But this was not a permanent posting; the various Blessed Lands and Blessed Grounds took turns dispatching their own Supreme Elders to stand guard, and Yin-Yang Heaven had naturally sent its own in the past.
According to that Supreme Elder, he had once attempted to venture deeper into the domain. From afar, he had seen many crystals of yellow and blue hues, radiating intense waves of Yin and Yang power. He was certain they were the Yin-Yang resources that cultivators everywhere dreamed of obtaining—but unfortunately, his strength had been insufficient to claim them, and it had remained a lasting regret.
Yang Kai had entered the Chaotic Death Domain alongside the Giant Spirit. Everyone had assumed he would perish within.
His safe return had stunned the Blessed Lands and Blessed Grounds. None had ever imagined that he had turned calamity into fortune, reaping enormous gains from that accursed place.
The fact that Yang Kai could produce a thousand sets of sixth-grade resources and a hundred sets of seventh-grade resources proved that his harvest in the Chaotic Death Domain went far beyond this.
Compared to what he had given up, his gains might have been several times—or even a dozen times—greater, Yu Xiangdie mused silently.
What she didn't know was that Yang Kai's haul from the Chaotic Death Domain had long since surpassed any reasonable calculation. A thousand sets of sixth-grade and a hundred sets of seventh-grade resources were but a drop in the ocean for him.
To put it bluntly, with Yang Kai's current wealth, even the tiniest trickle from his coffers would be enough to drive the world mad.
"It was indeed the Chaotic Death Domain," Yang Kai admitted without denying it. When such a vast quantity of precious resources appeared, anyone with half a brain could guess their origin. There was no point in concealing it.
"You've actually been to the Chaotic Death Domain?" Luo Tinghe's eyes went wide with astonishment. "How did you survive?"
"It's a long story." Yang Kai thought back to those years in the Chaotic Death Domain, outwitting Big Brother Huang and Big Sister Lan, and felt a shiver of unpleasant memory. He could hardly tell people that he had spent years playing house with those two just to stay alive—and had emerged with a fortune beyond imagining.
He redirected the conversation. "Senior Aunt Luo said 'deal' earlier. Does that mean you think my proposal is feasible?"
"More than feasible." Luo Tinghe nodded repeatedly. "I'm afraid I might agree right now if I'm not careful. But Qu girl's marriage is a matter of the sect after all, and I still need to discuss it with those old codgers. But rest assured—with this many treasures on the table, even the most stubborn among them will see reason."
"I'll be counting on you, Senior Aunt Luo." Yang Kai bowed respectfully.
"Right, I'll go convince them now. Wait for my good news." Luo Tinghe sprang to her feet and rushed out the door in a flurry of energy.
Yu Xiangdie shook her head with a helpless smile. Watching Luo Tinghe's retreating figure, she turned to Yang Kai. "Don't worry too much. Your sincerity is extraordinary—I'd be tempted too if I were one of the sect's higher-ups. Rules are rigid, but they can be bent when the moment calls for it. And with Senior Sister Luo making the case herself, the result will be all the more effective."
She paused briefly, then added, "Besides, the fact that you rescued Senior Sister from the Reincarnation Pavilion is itself an immense service to Yin-Yang Heaven. That the sect has nothing worthy to repay you with is one thing, but for them to cause you trouble over this? There's no justification for that whatsoever."