They should hide within the Myriad Miles Rivers and Mountains Painting for another week or so, to make sure that Hierarch Blacknether was gone. After that, they’d be able to leave the painting.
Nie Li observed the insides of the painting as he flew around. He landed on one of the Deity’s Lakes. With a wave of his hand, the gathered all the spiritual stones in the lake.
They’d been collecting there for so long inside the painting. It was time to harvest.
Nie Li harvested roughly three hundred thousand spiritual stones and five hundred essences from the Deity’s Lake.
He stored them away and continued towards the second Deity’s Lake.
He didn’t stop until he’d harvested all the spiritual stones and essences from his fifty or so Deity’s Lakes.
He roughly estimated his wealth to be twenty million spiritual stones and thirty thousand spiritual stone essences. It was definitely an astonishing amount of wealth. Nie Li guessed it was about half of the Divine Feathers Sect’s entire fortune!
He had to convert all these spiritual stones into strength!
Otherwise, it’d be a waste!
Nie Li thought for a bit, then his eyes lit up. How could he have forgotten about that?
Fifteen days later
The Gu Clan Patriarch and elders were gathered to discuss the matter about Gu Bei destroying others’ Deity’s Lakes.
In the vast hall, Gu Tianlong sat in the first seat as the Gu Clan’s Patriarch. On either side of him were the elders. Meanwhile, Gu Bei, Gu Heng, and other descendents stood in the middle of the hall.
Gu Heng cupped his hands and pitched his argument that he’d been wronged. “I believe that cousin Gu Bei has gone too far in this matter. I beg the Patriarch and elders to uphold justice! We were born of the same roots, so why must he rush for such a kill?! If Younger Cousin Gu Bei succeeds the Patriarch’s position, I’d hope that he’d treat his clansmen much more kindly!”
Gu Heng’s words fell onto the ears of the Gu Clan’s younger generation. They exchanged looks and whispered amongst themselves.
“I never thought that Elder Cousin Gu Heng would suffer such a huge setback!”
“I heard that Younger Cousin Gu Bei recently established his own force and that it’s been developing rapidly! But I never imagined that it could actually defeat Elder Cousin Gu Heng! That’s too hard to imagine!”
“Elder cousin Gu Heng wasn’t defeated. Gu Bei just used some method to destroy Elder Cousin Gu Heng’s Deity’s Lake!”
“Destroying people’s’ Deity’s Lakes? That’s just too cruel. After all, we’re of the same clan!”