With Ye Huai leading the way, Su Lang effortlessly entered the secret treasury of the stronghold.
"Here it is. All the gold coins from the stronghold are stored here," Ye Huai said nervously. "And my brother's private stash is in here too."
"How much money?" Su Lang glanced at Ye Huai and asked casually.
"T... total of... public funds plus private assets, probably around seventy to eighty thousand gold coins."
"Seventy to eighty thousand gold coins! That's quite a sum," Su Lang's eyes lit up. The amount of gold coins surprised even him.
He quickly understood why there was so much gold here.
Firstly, this was an E-grade stronghold, undoubtedly far wealthier than an F-grade one.
Moreover, Ye Zong was close to the Martial Artist level and served as the commander of the E-grade stronghold, akin to a local emperor.
In terms of status and position, he might not be far behind Yang Tianrui.
Ye Zong had ruled the Golden Flame Leopard stronghold with an iron fist, plundering extensively and easily amassing tens of thousands of gold coins in personal wealth.
"Heh, now all these gold coins belong to me!" Su Lang's lips curled into an excited smile.
Without hesitation, he entered the secret room and began storing coin after coin into his system space.
Watching the coins disappear into Su Lang's hands, Ye Huai and the woman in blue from the Wind Wolf stronghold stared in disbelief.
"Space Ring!"
Ye Huai's face was filled with shock and awe.
A Space Ring—only the four Grand Martial Commanders in the entire Crimson Maple City stronghold had such treasures.
"This Su Lang is just a Formal Warrior, yet he possesses a Space Ring. What kind of background does he have!?"
Ye Huai widened his eyes. "What kind of force did our Ye family offend?"
Someone who owned a Space Ring at the level of a Formal Warrior was undoubtedly terrifying, likely at least a successor to a Martial Commander!
"Mu... Mu Shuai's force!"
Ye Huai trembled all over, as if sifting chaff. "My Ye family... we're probably finished."
While Ye Huai was in horrified disbelief, Su Lang had already stored all the gold coins into his system space.
A total of 76,526 coins!
Adding to the previous surplus of over 74,000 coins, Su Lang once again possessed more than 150,000 coins!
"System, upgrade the One-Key Martial Arts function to level 5!"
With sufficient funds, Su Lang impatiently issued the upgrade command.
"Ding! Consuming 100,000 gold coins, the One-Key Martial Arts function has been upgraded to level 5. Training speed increased to 16 times the base speed."
"Ding! Congratulations on upgrading the One-Key Training function to level 5. You have acquired the new bonus function 'Dual Focus,' allowing simultaneous training in two martial arts!"
In an instant, another martial training figurine appeared in the mysterious black space!
"Dual Focus? What a practical bonus function!"
Su Lang grinned broadly, his eyes forming crescent moons.
Immediately, without hesitation, he designated the Thunderlight True Technique as the second martial art to train.
"Ding! Thunderlight True Technique successfully placed!"
Simultaneously, the second training figurine began practicing the martial art!
Su Lang eagerly asked, "System, how long until these two martial arts can be upgraded?"
"Host, Thunder Silk True Technique requires 10 hours, and Thunderlight True Technique requires 18 hours."
Although both were basic Thunder attribute martial arts, Su Lang had always prioritized training in Thunder Silk True Technique, thus Thunderlight True Technique required more training time.
"Ten hours, just enough for a nap."
Su Lang smirked, a smile forming at the corners of his mouth. "I wonder what expressions those warriors who toil away training martial arts will have when they find out."
"My Lord!"
Ye Huai spoke fawningly and fearfully, "Are we going to the warehouse where other resources are stored next?"
At this moment, he knew he had to try his hardest to please Su Lang if he hoped to grasp a glimmer of hope.
"Yes, let's go."
Su Lang nodded calmly.
"Please, follow me, my Lord!"
Ye Huai bent over humbly, leading the way cautiously ahead, much like a eunuch.
Unhurried, Su Lang followed behind, and soon arrived at another secret warehouse.
This warehouse contained nothing but materials from fierce beasts and precious medicinal herbs and ores.
"Tsk tsk, truly worthy of an E-grade stronghold."
Su Lang clicked his tongue. "Just these things alone are worth tens of thousands of gold coins. Sweet!"