Qu Jianlei had always believed knowledge had a price—especially now, when what he possessed was exclusive knowledge.
Fortunately, the True Venerables who came to sound him out were not people who had lived all these years for nothing. They would all offer a little something, more or less.
But True Venerable Qu still insisted on a normal transaction. He said the theory behind this path was too new and still needed to be supplemented and perfected.
To avoid misleading others, he would spend the coming period working hard to calculate more of its contents.
As for the release of the related ideas, he said he would discuss it with Lingyun and then choose an appropriate method.
That sounded a little helpless. It was clearly a result he had researched himself, yet he still had to discuss it with Lingyun.
Unfortunately, many True Venerables had heard that he was worried his personal influence might make Lingyun wary.
So some people said, True Venerable Qu, don't mind any factionalism. If you have the intention, we are willing to support you.
In fact, even before this, more than one True Venerable had made their stance clear: as long as you can establish your own faction, I'll bring my whole household to join you!
Now, faced with this situation, Qu Jianlei could only say: the spread of knowledge should have some rules and structure, shouldn't it?
He stated that he had no intention of hoarding his treasure, and that he also hoped Houde could produce more True Venerables and raise the realm's influence.
But if knowledge was spread improperly and led to misinformation being passed around, that would be terrible. And he could hardly explain it over and over again.
In fact, the True Venerables making such requests were all not very familiar with