In Shanshui Realm's words, their main reason for setting up this branch was to exchange information.
If Lingyun allowed them to establish it, both sides could share what news they had.
That condition was quite tempting. Even in the Cultivation World, information was extremely important, especially news from beyond one's own realm.
The key was that Shanshui Realm had hinted in secret: did Lingyun really have no Hidden Agents in Shanshui?
It was nothing more than making the Hidden Agents semi-public, which would actually make supervision easier. If any major news came up, both sides could also exchange it in a timely manner.
With the matter put that way, Lingyun could not very well oppose it by force—mutual information exchange between the various cultivation realms was still very important.
At present, Houde's channels for exchanging news with other realms all ran through those cross-realm trading routes.
But the various powers involved in those channels communicated with one another with extremely low efficiency—information gaps made quick money, and what merchant did not understand that?
This situation had gone on for many years, and no one had thought there was anything wrong with it. Unexpectedly, Shanshui Realm had proposed a solution.
Lingyun Sect did not explicitly agree, but neither did it refuse. The general meaning was: go ahead and try it first; we will not oppose you right away.
Even the mortal world could come up with something like a "pilot program." Cultivators were not so lacking in vision that they could not see that much.
When Baiyou Merchant Alliance wanted to build a branch, it initially wanted to secure a Tier 5 Spirit Vein to display its strength and connections.
However, Lingyun issued a warning forbidding them from monopolizing a spirit vein—Na Hong had only occupied sixty percent of a spirit