As Poison Monarch spoke, his voice transformed into numerous five-colored butterflies that appeared in front of Xu Qing and the other ascendees. They were very unique jade slips. As they flapped their wings, they transmitted information directly into the minds of everyone present.1

The Department of Acquisitions was one of the 324 departments in the Reception Universe. The director was tasked with providing special materials for the war. Usually, the department was sent to a specific area with a specific deadline to acquire funds and provisions. They would then be sent back to the Reception Universe, where the profits would be transferred to the Department of Transportation, and beyond that, to the front lines. Because of the wartime situation, everything the Department of Acquisitions did was centered around the acquisitions.6

In terms of what the department sought to acquire... it boiled down to one thing! It was something that all Imperial Sovereigns and higher desperately needed: ringsource! Unfortunately, the ringsource needs of the war effort surpassed those of individual cultivators. As a result, there was no way they could go about acquiring ringsource in the way Xu...0