Ning stayed in the city for a few months, gathering tens of thousands of treasures from the many men that came and went. From what he could see, Divine was the highest realm one could get to in this world, which he had also reached, so no one had any chance of defeating him.
After months, Ning went back to his secret realm once to dump all of his many treasures there and left. However, this time around, he went to a different city, where he would do the same thing all over again.
People there recognized him as they had been to the other city and started calling him the title he had gotten back in the other city.
The Sage of Ten Thousand treasures.
Ning's reputation was incredible at the moment and so many people came to try it. Without even having to do anything, his work here was a massive success.
People basically handed him their treasures so he could take them. After a few months of staying here again, Ning left.
He went around the Emerald Continent and in just a few years made a solid name for himself.
Ning's reputation went far and wide, just as he had hoped to do. That came at a cost, however.
Since he was now popular, people knew better than to wager their treasures against him.
"Time to go to another continent, I suppose," Ning thought. He wondered which one he should go to first, the Ruby or the Amber continent.
The Ruby continent had an easier way to go to appearance, but it didn't matter to Ning as going anywhere was easy for him.
So, instead of using the teleportation formation that helped anyone travel anywhere, Ning instead just teleported away to the Amber continent that was far away.
His plan was that he would spend a dozen or two years here, and by the time he got to the Ruby continent, they would've forgotten what little they had heard about him. In this way, he could put himself at a massive advantage to receive more treasures when he got there.
So he did just that and restarted his thing all over again.
The people in the Amber continent had no idea about him, so he stole a lot of treasures here too.
There were also many, many people that tried to take advantage of him by stealing the treasures while he worked, so he either crippled them or killed them all out.
Whether it was delinquents, young masters, or a corrupt law enforcer, Ning always did his best to no discrimination among the three and beat stole from them equally.
He also stole from those that came after the three to save them. Those were the times he truly earned a lot.
Even then, whatever he earned, he brought back to the secret realm to help build it up.
A few more years went past and Ning returned back to the Ruby continent.
His time on this continent started off easy, but soon enough, people recognized him and as such he could no longer get the treasures the usual way.
With no choice, Ning had to change his ways.
Instead of taking other people's treasures, he decided to make his own. He used the system's help to do so for most of the treasures as with over 655 Billion Energy every single day, Ning had more than enough to just throw around.
Still, he didn't make any treasure with less than a Trillion of energy in total. It only required a few days' worths of energy anyway.
In the meanwhile, he also took up Artifact forging and started making artifacts of his own. He knew a bit about making artifacts as Ely had taught him just as much, but he also bought some knowledge from the system, and soon enough, he was making artifacts to rival the ones he got from the system.
Instantly, Ning became a very popular figure in the Ruby continent and even the greatest of Divine realm cultivators came to get treasures from him.
Ning accepted their orders and made them their artifacts. He needed the spirit stones anyway.
New names started popping out for him that called him various things, but one old one stuck to him once again. The Sage of Ten Thousand treasures.
Ning continued making treasures that were one-of-a-kind, and very soon his reputation transcended even the Three Jewel world itself.
Ning was working in his own shop, making a lantern for someone when a person appeared out of nowhere.
The people that Ning had employed went to talk to him to see what he wanted, but to their surprise, the man only wanted him and him alone. He was also very rude to them and acted all high and mighty.
The man all but demanded Ning arrive in front of him immediately, but Ning took his sweet time, making the lantern the best he could.
After 30 minutes of his work Ning finally finished working. And then, he took another 30 minutes of rest just to spite the man that had arrived at his workplace.
Finally, Ning walked out to the fuming man and asked, "How can I help you?"
"Is this how you treat your customer? By making them wait for an hour?" the man asked.
"Yes, that is usually how we treat them. The longer they wait, the more valuable the guest. Most people only have to wait around for 5 minutes, but you waited for an entire hour. You cna see how much we appreciate you," Ning said with a genuine smile on his face.
The man got confused for a bit, unable to tell whether or not Ning was serious. In the end, he couldn't see through the obvious sarcasm and started speaking.
"So, are you the Sage of Ten Thousand treasures that can make any treasure in existence?" the man asked.
"Who's asking?" Ning asked as he looked at the man up to down.
"I am Fire Grim," the man introduced himself. "You can also call me the Sword god."
