He had not even lifted a finger.
Yet an entire sect had declared its submission, accepting suppression.
It left Chu Qing somewhat unaccustomed to it. It felt unreal.
"Was my reputation really this great?"
Yet the two ten-thousandths boost to his combat power bestowed by the Four Directions was no lie.
The increase in combat power proved that everyone in this faction, from top to bottom, had been suppressed by him.
A little later:
Chu Qing had people demonstrate numerous Martial Arts Secret Transmissions.
Then he began explaining the mysteries of those secret transmissions.
Ten minutes later, he tore through the air and headed straight for the next faction.
Watching the sonic boom ring Chu Qing had left behind in an instant, the Flowing Fire Sect Master remained silent for a long time.
One minute...
Ten minutes...
An elder gave him a nudge.
"Sect Master... what are you thinking about?"
The Flowing Fire Sect Master said excitedly, "Great Lord Qing clearly knew the name of our sect, yet he still asked us what it was called!"
"Do you think Great Lord Qing wanted to remember us?"
The elder nodded.
The sect members also nodded in succession, saying excitedly, "Sect Master, you truly are divinely insightful!"
The Sect Master shook his head and gave a bitter smile. "It is not that I am divinely insightful. It is that Great Lord Qing... is approachable and gave me an opportunity!"
"Otherwise, with Great Lord Qing's current status and position, do you think he would even spare a glance for a sect like ours, one with influence in merely a few dozen empires?"
The sect members sighed in emotion.
Originally, developing a sect's influence across a few dozen empires was already quite impressive.
But in Chu Qing's eyes, it truly amounted to nothing.
After