Did the imperial government want to learn the details of cultivation? Of course it did!
But it understood even better that it could not accomplish this through government channels.
This had something to do with Xiao Moshan's stubbornness, but the key was that the empire's leadership clearly understood the real reason cultivators withdrew from worldly affairs.
Now that it had confirmed Digital Phantom had no ambitions toward the empire, giving them a Legion-Class Battleship hardly mattered.
In fact, the empire understood one thing: if this team truly wanted to interfere in the secular world, whether they had that battleship made no difference.
Whatever happened, it had to do everything possible to win the team's goodwill. With its natural advantage, it could hardly afford to lose to those other two countries, could it?
There were also the enormous profits generated by the Digital Phantom Team's businesses in the empire.
Over the past century, the wealth those businesses had accumulated had reached an unimaginably astronomical figure.
With the team's main members missing, those interests could not be fully protected.
Even though Xiao Moshan had remained throughout, and Mu Guang had returned after undergoing his tribulation, that was still the case.
Ultimately, the wealth involved was simply too vast for two men to safeguard it all.
Fortunately, Xiao Moshan had later become chief instructor, trained a great many disciples, and been awarded the rank of marshal.
Mu Guang, who stayed out of worldly affairs, was also capable of suppressing the empire storm, making many people deeply wary of him.
Even so, plenty of people were still sucking blood from those enormous profits, and the two men could not keep track of them all.
The biggest share of the appropriated profits, however, had gone to the imperial government, followed by several powerful organizations.
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