The remaining three Extraordinary Treasures had all come from the Eerie King.
Extraordinary Treasure Name: Port.
Extraordinary Treasure Grade: Green.
Extraordinary Treasure Effect: Building Blueprint. Allows the construction of a port.
For now, they had no use for it.
But—
It might be useful in the future when they conducted trade across the sea, if there were forces over there.
Though so far, he hadn't seen any force with ships.
However, he was not yet clear on how ships could survive the darkness.
Extraordinary Treasure Name: Heavenly Deduction Sand Table.
Extraordinary Treasure Grade: Green.
Extraordinary Treasure Effect: Can devour numerous Eerie-hide maps to inherit their effects. Can connect to external buildings.
This was an oversized map.
One superior to Eerie-hide maps.
An Eerie-hide map for Rivernorth would become useless once in Riversouth, shrouded in mist; similarly, Riversouth maps would fail in Rivernorth.
But with this Heavenly Deduction Sand Table, he could check out the latest development in Riversouth from Rivernorth in real-time.
A fine treasure.
Additionally—
The Shadow Recording Formation could also be connected to the Heavenly Deduction Sand Table.
This meant he no longer needed the Perpetual Night Lord Panel to find out what creatures had stepped within those Formations.
The Shadow Recording Formation's visuals could play on the sand table.
No need to constantly monitor the Perpetual Night Lord Panel.
"..."
The sand table could change size at will.
He looked at the pocket-sized sand table in his hand, vaguely seeing several white dots—they represented all the Shadow Recording Formations.
As long as enough Shadow Recording Formations were built and someone kept an eye on them, assassins would find it difficult to infiltrate his territory.
This was a massive project.
During the rainy season, the camp had focused on building up defenses, with almost no projects to improve the living conditions. After this matter concluded, he would need to find workers to fit up his home base.
They had many tasks ahead of them.
But...
The outcome of their fight against the Alchemy Sect determined whether he could do these things at ease.
The last Extraordinary Treasure was:
Extraordinary Treasure Name: Star Observation Platform.
Extraordinary Treasure Grade: Yellow.
Extraordinary Treasure Effect: Building Blueprint. Must be built on high ground. Allows observation of Eerie Tides in a region. Construction requires slaying one Eerie King within camp range.
Just then—
Wang Kui walked out of the warehouse, looked up at Chen Fan sitting on the city wall, and said, "Realm Lord, all resources have been taken stock of."
...
Inside Warehouse No. 1.
Wang Kui held a bamboo slip taken from the Archive Room and reported.
"A total of 17 forces came to offer congratulations, nearly all of them major powers."
"Mm."
Chen Fan nodded slightly; this was normal. The stations on the wasteland hadn't been rebuilt yet; only powerful forces could make a round trip within a day.
One needed Skeleton Horses for that.
"Gifted Eerie Stones total at 92,700. Adding those from slaying the Eerie King, the current total is 112,300."
"The King of Medicine Valley sent 10,000, the most among all guests."
"Second place is the Ravine Wang Clan, who sent 9,832."
"Third place..."
"Tell me the least."
"The least is the Rivernorth Chamber of Commerce. They sent 3,000 Eerie Stones and nothing else."
"Phew..."
Chen Fan breathed out softly, wordless. The amount was significant, but he was somewhat surprised by the Ravine Wang Clan.
"The Ravine Wang Clan sent 9,832 Eerie Stones?"
"Yes. Beyond that, they sent 17 unopened white-grade Extraordinary Treasures, 11 opened white-grade Extraordinary Treasures, 2 unopened green-grade Extraordinary Treasures, 1 opened green-grade Extraordinary Treasure, and 2 Building Blueprints. All in the warehouse."
"..."
Chen Fan paused for a moment, then burst into laughter. "He's actually so decisive?"
He had seen many examples of cutting off a limb to survive.
Their abandoning the old camp was a case in point.
But cutting it so cleanly—this was his first time witnessing it. These were basically all the Ravine Wang Clan was worth. To put it bluntly, the Wang Patriarch's family would instantly fall from wealthy lives to commoner status.
From a certain viewpoint, this also revealed the Wang Patriarch's authority within the family.
"Bring out those Extraordinary Treasures; let me see them."
...
Most gifted Extraordinary Treasures, except for those from the Ravine Wang Clan, were unopened.
Unopened Extraordinary Treasures, although their exact value was hard to judge, could be estimated by appearance.
By the rule of thumb, the values ranked from high to low were—
Blueprint > Token of Authority > Formation Disk > Weapon > Seed > Other.
Even unopened, blueprints were definitely valuable.
Tokens of Authority tended to be good items, like the Breeze Formation now in the Eerie Fire.
Seed-type treasures were easy to identify—a film-wrapped lump of seeds—likely holding no great value.
As for the "Other" category,
This was the hardest to judge.
There were all sorts of them, varying from a pagoda to a fan; ninety-nine percent were junk, yet the remaining one percent brought a fortune.
This was also the type that sold best in marketplaces.
Many lone cultivators were willing to gamble on them.
If it paid off, they would strike rich overnight.
Some other forces also sent Extraordinary Treasures besides Eerie Stones, but all the seed-type, as if by agreement. He checked each of their panels; none were particularly excellent.
Rarely would Seed-type Extraordinary Treasures be valuable.
Furthermore, based on color and shape, one could roughly guess what seed it was. What these people had sent were carefully selected, average seeds.