Wei Cheng was, in fact, also very poor.
In this wave alone, he had invested a total of six hundred thousand strands of high-grade Immortal Spirit Qi.
Discounting the one hundred thousand strands given to him by Yun Li, the Celestial Emperor, the remaining five hundred thousand strands were all scraped together by himself, selling the pot and the iron, so to speak.
Truly.
When he had previously stolen from the Taboo Wood Spirit Ancestor's home at the Divine Thunder River, he had plundered a thousand strands of superb Immortal Spirit Qi.
Added to what he had previously saved up.
It was less than one thousand five hundred strands.
Over the past two hundred years or so, on one hand, he needed to provide resources for his personal cultivation world, and on the other hand, he also had to provide for Jing Que, Ming Xi, and the forty-nine Sealing Monarchs who followed him.
As a wild newcomer with neither prestige nor means, he could only temporarily retain them with benefits.
