They wanted more—more than fifty percent. If so, completely conquering Xuanyuan Court was essential!
However, although the Xuanyuan Court branch of the Tomb of the Gods Cult's main bloodline was powerful, its numbers were ultimately too few. In truth, it lacked the ability to truly unify Xuanyuan Court and suppress everyone.
After all, the Ten Emperors of Xuanyuan Court had ruled here for billions of years. Their dominion was deeply rooted, and they had the support of so many royal and Ancient clans. They were not so easy to conquer.
Thus, their so-called "spiritual unification" was their ultimate strategy.
It was a frog-boiling-in-warm-water approach: assimilating Xuanyuan Court bit by bit, dividing and sowing discord until Xuanyuan Court's elites slowly became elites of the Tomb of the Gods Cult.
Once the balance of power between the two sides was completely broken, the Tomb of the Gods Cult could eliminate some stubborn holdouts, prop up a puppet imperial clan, and formally take one hundred percent control of this land!
This method was actually an open move—and a terrifying one at that. The various clans of Xuanyuan Court had no way to counter it, because there were too many clan factions, all with grudges between them. Even if one swore never to submit to the Tomb of the Gods Cult... who could guarantee that the others would not submit?
The An clan's young clan emperor had even married a woman from the Tomb of the Gods Cult's Muxue branch!
If not for Li Tianming's appearance, Xuanyuan Court's "spiritual unification" would have been unavoidable.
Li Tianming's appearance had turned the An clan—the clan closest to the Tomb of the Gods Cult—into the vanguard of resistance against it. Even if it was only a minor conflict between youths under ten thousand years old, it was