"What was there to thank me for?"
"Senior Shenji, this is not right. This is not correct."
Jiang Ding frowned. "The Immortal Sect's Dao Integration Stage cultivation technique concerns my Dao Path. The Immortal Sect's Star-grade Battleship concerns my combat strength. All of this is my own business, and also the Immortal Sect's business."
The interests of the Immortal Sect and the interests of its citizens were one and the same.
This was not a slogan, but something embodied in every aspect of life. It existed everywhere.
"Indeed."
"It was I who made a mountain out of a molehill."
True Venerable Shenji laughed.
In truth, from the perspective of the natural universe, the strong naturally possessed more rights, rather than all sorts of prescribed fairness. Such fairness seemed reasonable, but it was only reasonable by human principles, not by the natural principles of Heaven.
To restrain one's own greedy instincts and desires, and completely abide by the Immortal Sect's rules and regulations.
That was why he had bowed to the youth before him.
It was an utterly ordinary thing, but truly doing it was simply too difficult.
Throughout history, the Immortal Sect had never possessed someone whose personal strength was sufficient to completely suppress the Immortal Sect, yet who was still willing to abide by Immortal Sect Law. No, that was not quite right. The power he commanded was formidable, but he still needed the aid of a great many citizens to bring it fully into play and contend with Realm Strong Experts.
No one knew whether, after gaining absolute power, he would still remain the Immortal Sect Regent he was now—the kind and honest elder in the hearts of countless cultivators.
No one could be absolutely certain about something that had yet to happen.
Was that not so?
And