Tu Shan Jun replied blandly, "So you used a strange treasure to command those earth gods?"
Dun Yi emphasized again, "This treasure of mine can not only command them, but also confer titles upon them."
"I am not one to covet other people's treasures."
Tu Shan Jun showed little interest.
The City God system could indeed rise to another level with earth gods assisting it, but the underworld's sphere of influence was still too small.
Even if they truly wanted to gather incense offerings and forge gods, they would have to wait until the underworld possessed the corresponding strength. Besides, the underworld had only developed for sixty years. He did not wish to introduce another path just yet.
Cultivating the entire immortal path already had its benefits. Added to that was the "Heaven's Mandate Method" Wu Rong had comprehended, allowing many cultivators without their own true intent or Great Dao to follow in his footsteps.
Cultivators without a "Dao" could borrow the underworld's Great Dao.
Combined with abundant resource supplies, that was the key to the underworld's cultivators advancing by leaps and bounds.
Of course, such an approach was not without drawbacks.
Many cultivators would "take shortcuts" by borrowing the Great Dao of those before them. Those who might originally have comprehended their own true intent and found a Great Dao belonging to themselves would also take this path in such an environment.
Cultivators of outstanding talent, who had long since made their true intent and Great Dao clear, would naturally remain unaffected.
Neither would those with talent too poor to even understand the paths left by their predecessors.
The ones most affected were actually that middling group of cultivators.
Perhaps some opportunity might have come their way and allowed them to climb higher, only for various causes to drag