But to these words,
Wei Tu gave no response.
He intended to wait for the best offer, find the most suitable sect—the sect willing to pay the highest price—and then join it.
The Azure Spirit Sect was indeed a major sect within the Divine Fire Immortal Domain, and it ranked higher in his mind than the Nine Nether Sect where Radiant Hermit belonged. But he would not simply follow Qiao Menghan because of a single sentence from her.
In short,
Neither Radiant Hermit nor Qiao Menghan was qualified to invite him into their respective sects.
At the very least, he had to wait until direct-line elders of sufficient standing within the Nine Nether Sect or Azure Spirit Sect could no longer resist extending an invitation to him...
Only then could he receive treatment beyond the standard within their sect, quickly enter the Temple of Divine Fire, and then use the Immortal Domain Teleportation Array within the Temple of Divine Fire to travel to the Sacred Emperor Domain.
Such conduct had an apt name, whether in the mortal world or the cultivation world: building one's reputation.
There was no shortage of powerful Rogue Cultivators with outstanding immortal arts in the cultivation world. By building their reputations, they could enter a sect with status and treatment surpassing that of cultivators of the same rank who had worked diligently for years.
This was not because immortal sects were muddleheaded, valuing branches and leaves over the trunk.
Rather, the value of these reputation-building Rogue Cultivators in uniting the cultivation world far exceeded that of same-rank cultivators within the sect.
—Recruiting such people had the effect of buying a horse's bones for a thousand gold, drawing even finer steeds to the door.
As the patriarch of a sect himself, Wei Tu understood this practice well.