Inside the mansion, Tian Hong clutched the Clan Leader's cherished sword, his expression unsightly. The Tian Clan was a vast Immortal family with extensive enterprises; contributing over three thousand low-grade Spirit Stones to the Defense Division annually was trivial. However, these contributions had accumulated over twenty years, reaching a staggering sum of over seventy thousand. Converted to middle-grade Spirit Stones, this amounted to more than seven hundred!
Yet, the Tian Family had indeed made these payments. They had simply bypassed the Defense Division, paying the cultivators they had wooed and recruited directly! If one were to meticulously calculate, the Tian Family's expenditures in this regard over the years might far exceed seventy thousand low-grade Spirit Stones. Of course, these investments had also yielded even greater returns. However, expecting Tian Hong to willingly settle this supposed debt was utterly impossible.
