Heh!
Chu Qing smiled and asked in surprise, "Smashing the Stone Man and refusing the great clans' cooperation—that counted as an unprecedented feat, one never seen before or since?"
Old Woman Wu Jue smiled. "That's right! In recorded history, everyone who smashed three Stone Men was a child of a great clan."
"No peerless genius born common, no matter how exceptional their talent or fortunes, had ever managed to smash a Stone Man! And throughout history, not a single person had ever resisted a great clan's recruitment."
"Not one?"
"Yes, not one. No—that's not right. You were the first, and perhaps the only one!"
Chu Qing fell silent.
What she said was right. It made sense.
But... so what?
"Then what exactly did you come to me for?"
Old Woman Wu Jue smiled. "Most of us in the Martial Academy hope that you can rise up and become an unrivaled overlord!"
"We want you to become the Martial Academy's pillar that steadies the sea!"
"When the Martial Academy faces danger, you must act and stand guard over it."
Chu Qing smiled. "Then what can you give me?"
"Endless resources? Frankly, I don't care."
"Women? I don't care about those either."
"Divine weapons and armor?"
"I'm equally indifferent to them!"
"Then what can you offer that would move me?"
Old Woman Wu Jue frowned inwardly.
She and the others had thought that the Martial Academy's vast resources were what gave Chu Qing the confidence to reject more than a dozen great clans.
Yet this young man actually claimed he did not care about vast resources?
"You truly don't care about those vast resources?"
Chu Qing nodded. "I don't!"
"I'm already this strong. Whatever resources I want, I'll just seize them."
"The treasures of the world belong to the virtuous!"
"I possess