Never Forget the Road You Came From!
The Earth Sha Evil Lord was so angry that tears were streaming down his face!
Are you really the Grand Elder of our Earth Sha Evil Spirits Division? You didn't actually surrender, did you?
Do you want to hear if you're even speaking human language?
Why did I, the Earth Sha Evil Lord, sign Heavenly Dao Contracts with all the other Evil Lords before?
I know all the Evil Spirits are unreliable. If the plan succeeds, when it comes time to divide the spoils, these old bastards will all jump out and claim they were the mastermind.
But if you really say that the truth comes out and Vast Heaven Holy Land causes trouble, damn it, these old bastards can all cleanly absolve themselves of any responsibility.
Forget about taking responsibility; they'd be doing the most they could by not selling you out!
Therefore, the cooperation between our various Evil Spirit factions has always been about sharing the good times and taking responsibility for the bad times!
In this situation, the Earth Sha Evil Lord signing the Heavenly Dao Contract is to leave himself a guarantee. If the plan fails, at least he won't be betrayed by his allies, right?
Now our allies are afraid to sell to us because of the Heavenly Dao Contract, so we have to sell it ourselves?
Are we crazy?
The Earth Sha Evil Lord says, "We're going to the Vast Heaven Holy Land now. We'll tell them that we accidentally swapped our ley lines with yours, and we've discovered that the Vast Heaven Holy Land's ley lines are actually inferior to our Earth Sha Evil Spirits Division's!"
In this situation, should I demand compensation from the Vast Heaven Holy Land?
Guess what? After I say that, will the Great Sage of Vast Heaven Holy Land put his arm around my shoulder and take me to play the "Universal Celebration" mini-game at our Earth Sha Evil Spirits Division?
There's no way I can just walk out of Vast Heaven Holy Land unscathed!
In response to the Earth Sha Evil Lord's complaints, the Earth Sha Grand Elder said, "Evil Lord, you're confused!"
"Evil Lord, what I mean by 'self-exposure' doesn't mean exposing everything... The Vast Heaven Holy Land doesn't know we've altered their ley lines, in other words, they have no idea that the Dead Spirit Realm was created by us from the Vast Heaven Holy Land..."
"In this situation, we won't mention a word about the change of the Vast Heaven Holy Land's ley lines. We'll only say that the recent changes in the ley lines of the Evil Shadow Continent have caused changes in the ley lines of our Earth Sha Evil Spirits Division, and that Dead Spirit Realm has appeared. Evil Lord, you should then tell the Vast Heaven Holy Land about the dangers that will occur once the Dead Spirit Realm erupts!"
"Didn't the Vast Heaven Holy Land claim to benefit all living beings? Doesn't our Evil Shadow Continent belong to the ranks of all living beings? So even if the Vast Heaven Holy Land can't completely help us suppress the Dead Spirit Realm, shouldn't they at least send someone to help us out a bit?"
"With the capabilities of the Vast Heaven Holy Land, what we can't solve, the Vast Heaven Holy Land might be able to solve as well!"
At this moment, as the Earth Sha Grand Elder spoke, the eyes of the Earth Sha Evil Lord also lit up!
Because the Earth Sha Evil Lord discovered that what the Earth Sha Grand Elder said was completely correct, and could even be said to be reasonable!
If the Vast Heaven Holy Land finds out you stole from their home, they will definitely kill you.
But if you don't mention the base raid and only talk about the Dead Spirit Realm, the Vast Heaven Holy Land might still help, right?
At this moment, the Earth Sha Evil Lord smiled and said, "Good... good... Grand Elder, this tactic of yours should be called moral blackmail! The Vast Heaven Holy Land always claims to benefit all living beings, but we've directly blackmailed the Vast Heaven Holy Land with moral blackmail!"
Upon hearing the words of the Earth Sha Evil Lord, the Earth Sha Grand Elder quickly shook his head, saying, "Evil Lord, you are wrong to say that!"
We ourselves lack morals, so how can we morally blackmail others?
The Earth Sha Grand Elder said, "Where did we get our morals from? Moral blackmail? We're just asking for a favor... There's no need to act like we're in control..."
Earth Sha Evil Lord: "..."
Whether it's moral blackmail or not is no longer important. The Earth Sha Evil Lord has finished all the preparations and is ready to head to the Vast Heaven Holy Land.
Vast Heaven Holy Land...
Chu Xinghe sat in the rocking chair in the room. Although things had been gushing out from underground in the Vast Heaven Holy Land since the beginning of the year... Chu Xinghe told everyone to stay calm!
The advantage at the start of this year is in my hands!
Look... in previous years, we were always getting crushed by the Misfortune Compass.
But this year, regardless of whether resources are gushing out from underground, tell me, didn't I Chu Xinghe, also receive a reward?
Under these circumstances, what makes you think I Chu Xinghe, have no advantage?
Compared to the disastrous start of previous years, tell me, didn't Chu Xinghe have a super favorable start this time?
Therefore, the advantage is in my favor!
With such a huge advantage, I, Chu Xinghe, will absolutely dominate this year!
So at this moment, Chu Xinghe is thinking about how to completely turn the tide this year!
Just as Chu Xinghe was pondering his next move, Senior Brother Shen Chun suddenly appeared out of nowhere!
"Junior Brother Xinghe, you're shaking it!"
Chu Xinghe stood up from the rocking chair and looked at Senior Brother Shen Chun with a wary expression!
"Senior Brother Shen Chun, is there good news again?"
"Huh? What are you saying, Junior Brother Xinghe...? What good news?"
Shen Chun was completely dumbfounded...
Chu Xinghe looked relieved...
It's not good news... Damn, we just started planning our move for this year, Senior Brother Shen Chun, you jumped out right after. That's a bit too alarming...
Chu Xinghe finally breathed a sigh of relief when he heard that there was nothing good coming from Senior Brother Shen Chun's side.
"Junior Brother Xinghe, the Grand Elder wants you to go there now. It seems to be about this year's disciple recruitment!"
At this moment, Shen Chun spoke up, and upon hearing what Senior Brother Shen Chun said about recruiting disciples, Chu Xinghe's face turned green!
They're even recruiting disciples?
Haven't I, Chu Xinghe, suffered enough losses in recruiting disciples?
Rest assured this year, whoever wants to recruit disciples can do so, I, Chu Xinghe, will absolutely not go!
Although he was extremely reluctant to recruit disciples, Chu Xinghe dared not delay in the slightest since the Grand Elder had asked him to go.
Following Senior Brother Shen Chun, we arrived at the Medicine King Palace... Now, all the high-ranking members of the Vast Heaven Holy Land, except for the Holy Lord, have gathered here.
What the heck? Why doesn't the Holy Lord participate in things like recruiting disciples? Does he have something important to attend to?
Or perhaps Senior Brother Shen Chun forgot to notify him?
Shen Chun replied that the Holy Lord didn't have anything important to discuss this time... cough cough... nothing urgent...
I didn't forget to inform... it was because all the chief elders voted and decided that it wasn't necessary to inform the Holy Lord about such a trivial matter, so this matter wasn't communicated to the Holy Lord at all...
When Chu Xinghe arrived at the Medicine King Palace, he found that not only were all the chief elders of the Vast Heaven Holy Land gathered, but Ma Liang, the only permanent low-level outer disciple of the Vast Heaven Holy Land, was also there.
When Ma Liang saw Senior Brother Xinghe enter, he quickly brought him a stool and asked Senior Brother Xinghe to sit down. After serving tea and snacks to the sect elders and Senior Brother Xinghe, Ma Liang stood obediently next to Senior Brother Xinghe instead of sitting on the chairs prepared by the disciples.
In the past, at most Ma Liang was qualified to listen in on meetings of the Vast Heaven Holy Land level. In the entire Vast Heaven Holy Land, only Chu Xinghe was qualified to sit in the meeting.
The chairs in the meeting room are also carefully chosen; there can only be a certain number of chairs for each person who can sit there, ensuring that the number of chairs is exactly equal to the number of people who can sit.
Therefore, in the past, there would never have been a place for Ma Liang to sit in the meeting room.
But now, thanks to the Elder's arrangement, an extra chair has appeared in the conference room. Anyone with eyes can see that this chair was prepared by the Elder for Ma Liang.
Although Ma Liang is still a disciple, and Ma Liang position in the Vast Heaven Holy Land has been reduced to a level that is hard to comprehend after the Holy Lord's two interventions.
But everyone in the Vast Heaven Holy Land understands that Senior Brother Ma Liang's position as the Future Grand Elder is a foregone conclusion!
As long as Senior Brother Ma Liang doesn't do anything reckless, in a few years, the Grand Elder will definitely entrust Ma Liang with more responsibilities.
A disciple with the Divinity Seed, a disciple destined to become Main God in the Future —no matter which power he's placed in, Ma Liang would absolutely be qualified to sit in a core position and speak!
Therefore, at this meeting, the Grand Elder instructed Shen Chun to prepare a chair for Ma Liang, which was also a way of telling the entire Vast Heaven Holy Land that Ma Liang was beginning to enter the ranks of the higher-ups.
The bigwigs of Vast Heaven Holy Land were all well aware of the Grand Elder's decision, and they all smiled as they looked at the chair and at Ma Liang.
No one objected, because Ma Liang's achievements today were not only due to good luck, but more so because Ma Liang had indeed done so much for the Vast Heaven Holy Land.
Chu Xinghe retorted, "Anyone who disagrees, just look at the hole in my back! Let me put it this way, if Ma Liang didn't exist in our Vast Heaven Holy Land, I, Chu Xinghe, would have been invincible long ago!"
Therefore, no one can deny how formidable Ma Liang was in the construction of the Vast Heaven Holy Land.
Ma Liang understood that this chair represented the Grand Elder and all the big shots' recognition of him, but precisely because he knew this, Ma Liang didn't sit down. Instead, he chose to stand next to Senior Brother Xinghe and listen, just like before.
Because Ma Liang said, "The elders have recognized me, Ma Liang, but I, Ma Liang, cannot be ignorant of when to advance and retreat!"
I, Ma Liang, will always be grateful. Without Senior Brother Xinghe, I, Ma Liang, might still have succeeded, but I, Ma Liang, would never have reached this height.
The most valuable quality in a person is self-awareness, as Ma Liang summarized for himself in this sentence.
When a person fails, they don't necessarily need to know the reason for the failure, because even if they knew, they couldn't change it.
However, when a person succeeds, they must understand why they succeeded, because if they don't understand the reasons for their success, then they are not far from disaster!
Almost everyone in this world gets a little carried away when they're successful, and I, Ma Liang, used to be one of them.
The reason I didn't listen to Senior Brother Xinghe and ask to see the courtesan back then was because I, Ma Liang, got carried away.
Back then, I, Ma Liang, was able to enter the Vast Heaven Holy Land with outstanding results. Shouldn't I be proud of that?
But what was the result?
Ma Liang said, "To put it bluntly, it's only because I, Ma Liang, met Senior Brother Xinghe that I'm so lucky. If I had met someone petty, they would have kicked Ma Liang back to my original form in one go!"
So from that day on, Ma Liang told himself countless times that one must never forget the path one came from!
No matter how successful I, Ma Liang, become, I should understand why I was able to succeed. Only by understanding why I was able to succeed can I go higher and further!
Therefore, Ma Liang did not choose to sit on this chair today. The Grand Elder can place this chair here for himself. This is the attitude of the Grand Elder, or rather, the Vast Heaven Holy Land, towards me, Ma Liang.
But I stand behind Senior Brother Xinghe. This is Ma Liang's attitude towards Senior Brother Xinghe, and also towards the entire Vast Heaven Holy Land!
Seeing Ma Liang standing behind Xinghe as usual instead of sitting down, all the bigwigs of Vast Heaven Holy Land in the Medicine King Palace smiled. They all looked at the Grand Elder as if to say: Grand Elder, the successor you found... is not bad!