In one corner of the Thunder Marsh Domain, rosy clouds filled the sky as an Artifact Sect envoy descended.
At this time, the Void Refinement cultivators of the Nine Heavens Divine Thunder True Sect and Blood Lake Corpse Mountain did not go to pay their respects. They merely respectfully sent disciples to welcome him and attend him at his side.
Mud Swamp Demon City also dispatched a group led by numerous Deity Transformation cultivators.
This was because the Artifact Sect envoy had only just crossed the world barrier and was severely wounded. Any Void Refinement cultivator approaching him would be directly deemed malicious and rebellious.
If the two True Sects did not wish to launch a rebellion right now, they would not make any move that could be misunderstood.
"I wonder how strong the Artifact Sect envoy is..."
Jiang Ding looked toward the distant sky full of rosy clouds and muttered to himself.
By ordinary reasoning, a cultivator doing such menial work could not possibly be one of the Artifact Sect's upper-echelon Void Refinement cultivators, much less a Void Refinement Heavenly Talent. Such vital combat power would certainly not appear in such routine administrative affairs, even if there was much profit to be skimmed from them.
Mud Swamp True Venerable, a rogue cultivator by birth and always lawless and unrestrained, had also considered this question carefully.
His conclusion was that the Artifact Sect envoy had to be extremely powerful and possess a certain overpowered trump card for deterrence. Otherwise, he could not make the many True Sects behave so respectfully and pay over eighty percent of their Attendant offerings every thousand years.
To cut off someone's source of wealth was like murdering their parents.
Not to mention that wealth in the Cultivation World was directly tied to strength, lifespan, dreams,