Spirit Province Co-Respect, Building Azure Cloud City

The crowd first fell silent as crows and sparrows.

Then they all expressed their submission.

Everyone knew in their hearts that after this battle, the Azure Cloud Sect would dominate Spirit Province!

Spirit Province Co-Respect!

The first supreme sect to rule Spirit Province alone.

The next day.

The news spread.

One stone stirred up a thousand waves!

In this battle, the experts of Spirit Province's major powers had nearly all been slaughtered.

The three great hegemonic powers immediately took the lead in announcing that everyone who had participated in the battle would be expelled from their sects.

Though it was only a formality.

After all, they had all turned to ashes.

But they still sent people to scatter their ashes!

Then they took out eighty percent of their sects' resources and sent them to the Azure Cloud Sect.

They submitted to the Azure Cloud Sect and recognized it as the ruler of Spirit Province.

Those were the major powers that still had some foundation.

The moment some top powers received news of the defeat, fearing the Azure Cloud Sect would settle scores with them later, they directly emptied out, leaving neither people nor wealth behind.

The major powers were reshuffled, and those sects that had not participated began swallowing up the weaker factions.

They turned over all the resources they had annexed to the Azure Cloud Sect in exchange for protection.

Newly risen sects sprang up like bamboo shoots after rain.

Profound Moon City.

"My ten thousand spirit stones!"

"Damn you major powers, you truly deserve to die!"

"I trusted you all so much for nothing!"

Outside the gambling house.

Many people clutched their heads and wept, their cries tearing at their hearts!

There was no other reason.

They had all bet on the major powers to win and lost everything down to the bottom of the barrel.

They cried to heaven, but heaven did not answer; they cried to earth, but earth did not respond.

"I'm rich, I'm rich!"

Only one person at the scene threw back his head and laughed.

It was that brother who had gone all in on the left.

He had made a fortune!

Take a gamble, and Xiao Yu becomes the top courtesan.

Now he could go enjoy himself tonight.

The news spread farther and farther, like a butterfly with wings gradually sweeping through the major provinces of the Eastern Domain.

Tyrant Heaven City.

Heaven's Secret Pavilion.

"What are you doing!"

"You've got some nerve rebelling!"

"Do you know where this is?"

"This is Heaven's Secret Pavilion! A branch of a transcendent Central Domain power. Are you looking to die?"

"Fuck your mother!"

A burly man rushed over and kicked the speaking man flying.

"What the hell is Heaven's Secret Pavilion?"

"Spirit Province now belongs to the Azure Cloud Sect."

"We're handing these resources over to the supreme sect. Maybe we can even get to become Servant Disciples."

"Brothers, grab your weapons! Rob them for me!"

Tianwu City.

"Ah! Those rumors led me astray!"

"Which idiot said the Lin Family was bound to perish and the Azure Cloud Sect was bound to perish? Get your ass out here!"

The current Lin Family could be said to have soared to the heavens in a single step.

Though the Lin Family's overall strength was lacking, as an affiliated force of the Azure Cloud Sect, it stood below one sect and above ten thousand sects in Spirit Province!

"Those rumors led my Li Family astray!"

"Otherwise, if I had brought my clansmen to stand with the Azure Cloud Sect, wouldn't we have risen straight to greatness by now?"

"Oh, give it a rest."

"Letting you say a few words has really made you put on airs?"

"Your Li Family? The Lin Family was at least a top power and could hold out for a while."

"Your Li Family is merely a second-rate family. What would you have gone there for? To court death?"

"Back then, if the major powers had sneezed, your Li Family would have been wiped out."

Azure Cloud Sect.

"Congratulations, Host, for completing the phased mission: Famous Throughout Spirit Province. Would you like to claim the reward?"

"Main mission, Famous Throughout the Eastern Domain: 2/10 completed. Please keep up the good work, Host. A massive reward will be issued upon completion."

"This mission has phases too?"

"System, claim the reward."

Inside Azure Cloud Hall, Feng Qingyang sat in the seat of honor, examining the system interface.

"Reward successfully claimed."

"Congratulations, Host, for obtaining five Silver Summoning Cards."

"Congratulations, Host, for obtaining the Azure Cloud Warship."

Silver Summoning Card: Can summon Spirit Transformation Realm–Manifest Saint Realm

Azure Cloud Warship: The Azure Cloud Sect's exclusive warship. It can travel ten thousand miles in an instant and withstand Manifest Saint Realm attacks. Once charged, it can fire a light cannon (charged with spirit stones), with power equal to a Saint's full-force strike.

Good stuff!

Feng Qingyang had not expected the system's reward this time to give him another surprise.

There was no need to say more about the summoning cards.

But this Azure Cloud Warship was truly a fine thing. Just imagining piloting that majestic warship into battle, then blasting the enemy into scraps with a single cannon shot—the sight would be so shocking!

As for needing spirit stones to charge it? Sorry, but what the Azure Cloud Sect lacked least now was spirit stones.

"Master, the storage room we just set up has been filled again!"

Shi Hao was utterly helpless. Every few minutes, some power would haul over several cartloads of things.

They came in ten cartloads at a time, packed in sack after sack.

Damn it! Were resources free or something? Why were they sending them over so crazily?

In just half a day today, the storage rooms had already been rebuilt five times.

He had never dreamed there would come a day when he would worry about having too many resources...

"Keep the spirit stones."

"Return the rest of that trifling junk."

"Any martial skills or cultivation techniques, return them all."

"Or just throw them away. Those are what the Azure Cloud Sect lacks least."

"Yes, Master."

Shi Hao went back to the miserable task of collecting resources.

Feng Qingyang then looked toward the members of the Lin Family in the hall.

"Though the gap in strength was enormous in this battle, your Lin Family still stood firmly on the Azure Cloud Sect's side without wavering. Very good!"

Just how many forces in this cultivation world, where the strong devoured the weak, could accomplish such a thing?

It was already good enough if they did not stab you in the back or kick you when you were down.

"Sect Master, this is what the Lin Family ought to do."

"As an affiliated force, if the Main Sect faces trouble, even if we are separated by tens of thousands of miles, even if we are shattered like jade and stone, the Lin Family will not retreat half a step."

"Are you not afraid of death?" Feng Qingyang stared into the eyes of the Lin Family members.

One had to know that under those circumstances, the Lin Family had been like an egg striking a rock.

"Though tens of millions stand against us, we shall go!"

"Good! Very good!"

"As long as the Azure Cloud Sect does not fall, your Lin Family shall endure for ten thousand generations!"

Lin Zhan did not know how important that one sentence was. When he looked back on it ten thousand years later, he would still feel endlessly fortunate.

But that was a story for later.

"Lin Bai, take your father to the Technique Hall to choose several cultivation techniques and martial skills. Then have your senior brother take another hall's worth of resources."

"Go."

The Lin Family was still far too weak. It needed to be strengthened quickly so it could keep pace with the Azure Cloud Sect.

How could one quickly increase one's strength?

Don't ask. If you did, the answer was simply to throw money and resources at it.

(And cheat.)

"Yes, Master," Shi Hao nodded respectfully.

"Thank you, Sect Master."

"Oh, right, Sect Master, I have one more request."

Lin Zhan, who had just turned to leave, turned back again.

"Could we build a city a hundred li below the Azure Cloud Sect's mountain?"

"A city?"

What a great idea. How had he not thought of it?

Major powers all had their own exclusive cities. Each one was famed throughout the land, standing entrenched as it drew in resources from every direction.

Countless geniuses also came upon hearing their names, laying a solid foundation for Opening the Mountain to Accept Disciples.

"You can. It's a good idea."

"Call it Azure Cloud City. If you lack any resources, you may take them from the sect. I will have the elders coordinate with you on this matter."

If they were going to build it, they would build the very best.

Moreover, the spiritual energy here was far richer than in the outside world. Given time, Azure Cloud City would surely become the greatest city in the Eastern Domain, or even on the entire continent.