Chapter 578: The Strongest Claimant of the Great Sun Sword Pavilion

"The last Great Sun Sword Master, what was his name again?"

Jiang Ding thought for a moment and searched online.

This was obscure, niche knowledge not found in textbooks, mentioned only occasionally in extremely rare documents.

"His name is Zou Zou Xiyuan."

"Zou Zou Xiyuan."

Jiang Ding's thoughts drifted: "This person, Zou Zou Xiyuan, practiced in reverse, was cruel and unrighteous, stingy and ungrateful, hated by both men and gods. For his own selfish gain, he slaughtered billions of citizens of the Blue Fluorescent Star, lost his mind, and deluded himself into thinking he could break through beyond the Void Refining stage by using all living beings as a price. He completely violated the will and legacy of the ancestors of the Great Sun Sword Pavilion, shaming the ancestors."

"Fortunately, the Immortal Gate appeared out of nowhere, set things right, allowing the Great Sun Sword Pavilion to be restored and the ancestors to rest in peace."

"Mm, that's how it is."

Cold killing intent appeared in Jiang Ding's eyes as he thought calmly.

"Killing the previous Great Sun Sword Disciple and all surviving Great Sun remnants clean, and killing everyone with a blood feud against the Immortal Gate—that is the fact."

He calmed his heart-lake.

Jiang Ding regained his composure, waved his hand, and a huge pile of storage bags, like a small mountain, appeared on the ground.

"The Library of the Falling Luo Xu Zong."

"This is very important. If the Immortal Gate wishes to comprehend the Golden Emperor Chart, the related research of the Falling Luo Xu Zong, especially the Gong Fa and scriptures regarding Metal and Causality, has great reference value. It is best to organize them as soon as possible."

"But I have no time..."

Jiang Ding thought for a moment, contacted the Immortal Gate Library, packed all these Gong Fa to be sent out, and let the library staff or available cultivators in society organize them; it just required setting aside a small portion of library points as a handling fee.

This was no problem; no one could take all the benefits.

Jiang Ding estimated slightly; there were about ten billion library points, a very large sum, representing part of the accumulation of the Immortal Dao civilization accumulated over millions of years in that world, with extremely high value.

The handling fee for having people organize them was five percent, meaning about five hundred million library points needed to be paid.

"Chirp!"

Less than a minute after placing the order, accompanied by a familiar bird call, a kingfisher the size of a palm broke through the spatial layer and appeared in the Silver Sky Island dormitory.

"Chirp!"

It flapped its left wing once.

"Senior, hello."

Jiang Ding quickly stood up and bowed.

This was a Nascent Soul stage kingfisher messenger!

"Chirp!"

The kingfisher said nothing, used a spell to take photos with a crackling sound, confirmed the client information, picked up the huge pile of storage bags like a small mountain in its beak, broke through space, and vanished.

On the spot, about four or five storage bags remained.

"These are the spiritual herbs collected by the Falling Luo Xu Zong."

Jiang Ding took a storage bag and swept his divine sense over it: "There are first and second tier ones, and third and fourth tier ones. The total value is 2.7 billion low-grade spirit stones, of which 500 million is composed of fourth-tier spiritual herbs... a fortune enough to drive mid-to-late stage Nascent Soul cultivators mad."

This was the merit of True Person Bai Mei and many other Jin Dan cultivators.

If it were one person, no matter how strong their power, they only had two hands and two feet; it was impossible to obtain so much.

"There are also the storage bags, magic treasures, talismans, and heavenly materials and earthly treasures of the Six Dao Holy Sons, General General Heishi's direct Jin Dan descendants, and others. Accumulating small amounts makes a large sum, totaling about 500 million low-grade spirit stones."

"Adding it up, my current wealth is about 3.2 billion low-grade spirit stones."

"I can repay the debt now."

Jiang Ding exhaled lightly.

Many years ago, due to poverty and the difficulty of purchasing materials to refine flying swords, he had borrowed one billion low-grade spirit stones from the Immortal Gate Central Bank, twenty percent of which consisted of fourth-tier spirit coins capable of purchasing fourth-tier heavenly materials and earthly treasures.

Jiang Ding called the courier kingfisher again and sent these items one by one to specialized companies for value assessment, further processing of the medicinal materials, or transplantation, and so on.

The picking skills of True Person Bai Mei and others were quite average; they didn't even recognize many of the spiritual herbs and could only use them in emergencies.

With this process, the harvest from the trip to the Falling Luo Xu Zong's mountain gate was already processed.

Jiang Ding closed his eyes and entered a cultivation state.

Hoo~

Inhale~

Within a fifty-kilometer radius, as his nose and mouth moved, wind rose and clouds surged. The essence of the Great Sun and the spiritual energy of heaven and earth flowed into the Sun God Tree, then were gradually refined by Xu Xu into magic power, dripping into his dantian.

Unknowingly, one Zhou Tian of cultivation ended.

Three months passed.

Jiang Ding looked at his phone, which was piled with many unread messages.

"Your Immortal Gate Central Bank account received 3,254,121,458 spirit stones on September 27, 17:54:09 this year. Balance: 3,255,575,748 spirit stones."

This was not him selling his spiritual herbs for plain spirit stones, but the currency issued to him by the Immortal Gate Central Bank after the bank assessed the value of his spiritual herbs and corresponding heavenly materials and earthly treasures.

The original heavenly materials and earthly treasures were now stored in the bank vault and still belonged to him.

This was a unique method of wealth preservation and transaction exclusive to high-level cultivators; otherwise, a scattered pile of items was too troublesome.

Placed in the Immortal Gate Bank like this, cultivators could efficiently exchange goods, avoiding the need to ask online for certain heavenly materials and earthly treasures, seek purchases in various places, and waste precious time in vain.

"Ten billion low-grade spirit stones used to repay the loan from the Immortal Gate Central Bank."

Jiang Ding looked at a long list of heavenly materials and earthly treasures, moved his divine sense, and kept ticking boxes on it, marking the heavenly materials and earthly treasures he did not need immediately; twenty percent selected were fourth-tier heavenly materials and earthly treasures.

Confirm.

"Ding!"

"Do you wish to use the fourth-tier Dragon Bone Wood, fourth-tier Flower Origin Grass, third-tier Earth Dragon Mushroom... and other spiritual herbs to repay the ten billion loan and interest you applied for on June 21 this year?"

The voice of the Immortal Gate Central Bank Array Spirit came.

"Yes."

Jiang Ding nodded, confirming through voice, divine sense, and expression all at once that he had indeed made the payment himself, without any external coercion — a normal transaction.

"Deducting… deduction successful."

"Your loan has been fully repaid."

The relevant notification appeared on the mobile banking app.

"-1,000,000,000 spirit stones, deducted by Immortal Gate Central Bank, balance 2,255,575,748 spirit stones."

After this operation, although the fourth-tier Dragon Bone Wood and other spiritual medicines were still inside the Immortal Gate Central Bank's vault, and their location had not changed, ownership no longer belonged to him — they had become the Immortal Gate Central Bank's property.

"Next is the repayment for the Banyan Array Spirit Scholarship."

Jiang Ding continued operating, his gaze momentarily drifting.

Vaguely, he recalled back over a hundred years ago — the excitement and gratitude of that Gao Zhongsheng when he received the Banyan Scholarship, and the resolve he secretly made upon hearing the Array Spirit's prompt: "Repay when you have the ability."

"Time flows on, and in the blink of an eye a century has passed."

"I now have the ability to repay."

Jiang Ding spoke to himself, his divine sense selecting one treasure after another on the Immortal Gate Central Bank app — no shortage of fourth-tier items among them.

"Twelve million low-grade spirit stones, used to repay the Banyan Array Spirit Scholarship, and that monkey-version Great Sun Flying Sword from back then, refined from thousand-year Soul-Nurturing Wood and No. 21 Synthetic Synthetic Gengjin."

"Five hundred million low-grade spirit stones,"

"of which fourth-tier heavenly materials and earthly treasures account for thirty percent, and third-tier heavenly materials and earthly treasures account for fifty percent, donated to the Immortal Gate Banyan Array Spirit Scholarship."

"To encourage and sponsor Immortal Gate disciples whose moral character scores are above 130, and whose aptitude, comprehension, and diligence meet the standards."

"Just as the many Immortal Gate forebears once did for me."

(End of this chapter)