Following the same approach, High Person Flowing Cloud went forward first to demand the return of their territory.
The other two sects were equally unwilling to return it.
The moment Lin Feng struck, he crushed their resistance.
The patriarchs of those two sects were subdued outright.
In the end, they had no choice but to return the territory they had occupied.
They also handed over the same sum of emperor crystals.
On this trip alone, Lin Feng obtained well over a hundred thousand emperor crystals.
Moreover, once those territories were returned, the Flowing Moon Palace's sphere of influence expanded again.
Their emperor crystal veins could now yield even more each month.
Lin Feng's stipend doubled again, rising from two thousand to four thousand!
He also gained the authority to allocate the sect's emperor crystals.
High Person Flowing Cloud had seen what Lin Feng had done for the Flowing Moon Palace.
He had seen the pressure Lin Feng shouldered for it.
Naturally, he could no longer treat Lin Feng as an outsider.
He granted him the highest authority outright.
Originally, he had intended to make Lin Feng palace master and let him command the entire Flowing Moon Palace.
But Lin Feng refused.
First, High Person Flowing Cloud was, after all, the legitimate leader of the Flowing Moon Palace.
Second, becoming palace master would mean handling far too many matters, great and small.
Since High Person Flowing Cloud was already well versed in all that, Lin Feng saw no reason to put himself through the needless effort.
Thus, Lin Feng remained supreme elder, doubling as the Flowing Moon Palace's top enforcer.
Under Lin Feng's series of moves, the Flowing Moon Palace's reputation began to rise.
It had now become a genuine second-rate force.
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