"I need to take you somewhere, but you have to keep it absolutely secret. Not a single whisper can leak outside!"
"A secret place? Where?" Gu Bei blinked, confused.
"Don't worry, we'd never spill. Do you really not trust us?" Lu Piao chuckled.
Nie Li's right hand moved, and the Myriad Rivers and Mountains Scroll flew from his grasp. A surge of tremendous power enveloped Gu Bei and Lu Piao. In an instant, with two sharp whistles, the pair transformed into streaks of light and vanished into the Myriad Rivers and Mountains Scroll.
The moment Gu Bei and Lu Piao entered the space within the Scroll, they froze, utterly stunned. They could never have imagined such a breathtaking sight.
Countless Divine Pools hovered in the sky, densely packed like an enormous divine formation. Faint outlines of buildings were scattered among them.
The concentration of Heavenly Dao power here was dozens — perhaps even hundreds — of times greater than outside!
An inexhaustible torrent of Heavenly Dao power saturated every corner of the space within the Myriad Rivers and Mountains Scroll.
"So this is where Nie Li moved all the Divine Roots he seized — they've been reformed into Divine Pools here!" Gu Bei exclaimed, finally understanding.
"This is the space inside the Myriad Rivers and Mountains Scroll? It's absolutely enormous — practically a small world of its own!" Lu Piao said, still reeling from shock. He had known the Scroll was in Nie Li's possession, but he never imagined it would be such an extraordinary treasure.
Nie Li returned to his courtyard, stashed the Myriad Rivers and Mountains Scroll away, and then focused his will, stepping into the space within.
Inside the Myriad Rivers and Mountains Scroll.
"Nie Li, you're here?" Gu Bei soared over the moment he spotted him.
"Nie Li, these Divine Pools in the Scroll — roughly how many spirit stones do they produce per day?" Lu Piao asked eagerly.
"At least several hundred thousand, maybe even a million. I'm not entirely sure myself!" Nie Li thought for a moment. "The Heavenly Dao power inside the Scroll is far more concentrated than outside, so the output of spirit stones is enormous!"
Hearing this, both Lu Piao and Gu Bei were staggered. Several hundred thousand to a million spirit stones a day?
That was simply staggering.
The spirit stones produced by the Myriad Rivers and Mountains Scroll in a single day would rival what an elder might accumulate over decades! In a single year, Nie Li's wealth could very well rival that of the entire Feather God Sect.
"I see! In that case, we should grab even more Divine Roots next time. Wouldn't that give us even more high-yield Divine Pools?" Gu Bei couldn't help but grow excited.
"Nie Li, since you have so many spirit stones, have you ever considered recruiting some experts from the Tianyuan Divine Clan?" Gu Bei ventured.
Nie Li's interest was piqued. He fell into contemplation. It was, in fact, a rather appealing idea.
"What's the Tianyuan Divine Clan?" Lu Piao asked, confused.
Gu Bei explained, "The Tianyuan Divine Clan is a race that lives in the Endless Barbarian Wastes. Because their bloodline is so powerful, the people of the Holy Demon Ancestral Land sealed them away there. If a Tianyuan Divine Clan expert wants to leave the Endless Barbarian Wastes, they must sign a master-servant contract with someone!"
"The Tianyuan Divine Clan devours massive quantities of spirit stones every day, but the Endless Barbarian Wastes are resource-poor. Many Tianyuan Divine Clan experts head to the borderlands seeking contractors simply to survive. But their prices are steep — at least fifty to sixty thousand spirit stones per person. However, Tianyuan Divine Clan experts are at least at the Dragon Path Realm in strength!"