Disposing of Stolen Goods

"Yes, this was an entirely new model of cooperation," Chu Liang said.

"It certainly was novel. This old man has yet to understand it." Elder Yin said with difficulty, "If Young Master Chu wanted us to merge into Shushan, it would not be entirely impossible to consider. But this acquisition... we are not a merchant guild. How are we supposed to be acquired?"

Chu Liang was not explaining this question for the first time. He had long expected him to ask. Huan Leisheng and Hong Jufeng had both harbored the same doubts back then.

It was actually very simple. Whether it was a small immortal sect like the Talisman Sect, a mid-sized one like Sun-Moon Tower, or even a large one like Star-Suppressing Island... if they had the chance to join one of the Nine Heavens, from the standpoint of pure profit, they would absolutely be delighted.

If they could have entered one of the Nine Heavens immortal sects earlier, who among the disciples of those other sects, including their sect masters, would still have come here?

But from Shushan's perspective, there was no need for that.

As one of the Nine Heavens immortal sects, the resources they provided their disciples were inevitably far greater than those of ordinary sects. Absorbing a batch of new disciples would inevitably send their resource expenditures soaring. And the talents of these sect disciples certainly could not match those of Nine Heavens disciples, so it was bound to cause an enormous waste of resources.

Moreover, the more people there were, the more matters the sect had to shoulder. With all sorts mixed together, good and bad alike, trouble was unavoidable. What immortal sect disciples valued was excellence, not numbers; more was never necessarily better. The Heavenly Star Divine Cult had been proof of this.