Sect Treasury

At noon, everyone finished their cultivation.

As soon as they came out, they noticed the changes at the entrance of the secret realm, not far from the cultivation room.

Seeing a steaming little pool appear out of nowhere next to the original large stone, surrounded by white plants, they were all quite surprised.

Everyone gathered around.

Initially, they thought the vapor rising from the pool was steam, but upon getting closer, they discovered it was actually a freezing pool.

As soon as they got near, they could feel a blast of cold air hitting their faces.

When everyone peered into the frigid pool, they surprisingly found schools of fish swimming inside.

They knew this must be Lin Xiao's doing.

However, looking around, they couldn't find him anywhere.

At this moment, Lin Xiao was in a corner behind the halfway point of the mountain, staring at the cliff face, calculating how wide and deep of a cave he needed to carve out here.

He planned to build a sect treasury here.

That is right, a sect treasury.

Not long after he placed the ice pool, he received a new quest issued by the system.

Which was to build a sect treasury.

Because as the sect developed, its various products and revenues would increase in the future, and all of these needed a place to be stored.

However, keeping everything in his personal inventory was inappropriate.

After all, it was fine as a temporary measure during the founding period, but they could not be mixed together forever.

Therefore, he had already intended to slowly separate his personal inventory from the sect's treasury. Since the system happened to issue this quest, he decided to do it now.

Actually, building a simple treasury would not be difficult at all.

Just putting up a wooden hut would suffice.

But considering that this treasury was, after all, the sect's treasure hoard.

And in the coming period, he would have to enter secluded cultivation until he reached the Golden Core stage, not knowing how long that would take.

Nor did he know how much fresh blood would join the sect by then.

Then it was highly necessary to build this treasury sturdily.

After all, wealth tempts the human heart.

Although their sect now had the Path of Seeking the Heart, and anyone who could join and set foot in the sect in the future definitely would not be deeply evil.

He still did not plan to casually build a very crude treasury just to test people's hearts like some sort of entrapment.

Not to mention how this would affect others, it would simply be very irresponsible towards their sect's treasury.

So he intended to make this treasury as sturdy as possible.

However, right now, apart from stones and dirt, he did not have any exceptionally solid brick materials on hand.

Thus, Lin Xiao opened his personal inventory.

He turned his gaze toward the houses constructed from Freezing Cold Jade.

Did he not have the materials right here?

He immediately opened the Building Synthesizer, took out an ordinary house made of Freezing Cold Jade from his inventory, and placed it inside.

Next was adding the beams.

He put in a few low-grade spirit woods.

He also tossed in a lock.

These were just a few of the random odds and ends he had picked up while casually shopping in Yuanling City.

Then he started the synthesis.

This time, he did not put in any spirit stones.

After all, he had already put in a whole house's worth of Freezing Cold Jade, even if it was just normal grade.

It was still very valuable!

So there was absolutely no way he would throw spirit stones in as well!

Not long after.

Ding—Sect Treasury synthesized successfully. Host, please select a placement location.

A treasury as pure white as jade instantly appeared before Lin Xiao's eyes, complete with many storage shelves inside.

Without hesitation, he raised his hand to place the treasury into the mountain cliff.

As a result, he realized he seemed to have forgotten to carve out a space in the cliff to place the treasury?

However, just as he was about to take out his tools to open a hole in the cliff, he suddenly noticed that the floating treasury he was maneuvering showed it could be placed directly against the cliff face?

Seeing this, Lin Xiao hesitated for a moment, then gritted his teeth and tried confirming the placement onto the cliff face.

To his surprise, it actually placed successfully!

The moment it was placed, a pure white lock appeared on the cliff face, and simultaneously, a set of identical white keys appeared in Lin Xiao's hand.

As for the cliff face itself, aside from the white lock, it looked completely indistinguishable from before from the outside.

Lin Xiao took the keys in his hand and unlocked the lock on the cliff.

He then saw a door appear on the originally dusty gray cliff face.

He pushed the door open and walked in.

He discovered that the inside was incredibly spacious, much larger than the phantom image of the treasury he had seen before placing it.

Not only was it wide, but it was also extremely tall.

Even if he put a Freezing Cold Jade house inside, it would not take up much space at all.

Lin Xiao felt that whenever their sect's wealth could fill this treasury, their sect would truly take off.

He took a lap around the spacious treasury.

Lin Xiao was quite satisfied.

There were quite a lot of storage shelves inside.

About a fifth of the area was filled with rows of shelves.

These shelves all had their own preservation functions.

Some were for storing herbs, while others were for storing things like demonic beast corpses.

Lin Xiao took the sealing box containing the Icefield Elf out of his personal inventory and placed it on a shelf.

Following that, he took out most of the Ice Stone Grass he had harvested earlier, along with various other medicinal herbs, and arranged them one by one on the shelves meant for storing herbs and spiritual plants.

He only left a small portion in his own personal inventory.

Although he had basically obtained all these things himself, it was also fundamentally thanks to the system that he had the opportunity to get them.

Therefore, Lin Xiao felt there was nothing wrong with giving the majority to the sect.

This was his contribution to the sect as its Sect Master.

Besides, if he really needed to use anything from the treasury, he could always take it.

After Lin Xiao slimmed down his personal inventory, he left the treasury.

As soon as he stepped out, the treasury door closed automatically.

And the lock very consciously snapped shut on its own.

Seeing this, Lin Xiao felt that the treasury's design was truly excellent. This way, it avoided situations where people entering and leaving might forget to lock the door.

Leaving the back mountain treasury area, Lin Xiao walked toward the front.

He happened to see the group of people who had finished their cultivation gathered around the ice pool, looking at the novelty.

Lin Xiao walked up and asked:

What are you guys doing here?

Hearing this, everyone finally looked up. Seeing it was him, they all spoke up to ask what this ice pool was used for.

Thus, Lin Xiao explained to them that this was the entrance to the Icefield Secret Realm and told them the times it opened each year.

Hearing his words, everyone really wanted to hurry up and go inside to see exactly what this Icefield Secret Realm and the nearby Green Field Secret Realm looked like.

However, these all required a cultivation base.

Many of them had not even reached the fourth or fifth layer of Qi Condensation yet.

According to what Brother Xiao said, there were many unknown dangers in these secret realms, so it would be best if they could get close to the cultivation limit of each secret realm before entering.

Who knew what level their cultivation would reach by next spring, before the two secret realms opened.