"Junior Brother, oh, Junior Brother!"
"Amazing, amazing, amazing!"
"That was the Ancient Alliance! At its peak, it could stir the entire Immortal Domain into such chaos that even chickens and dogs knew no peace, and it could wrestle with the Immortal Court!"
"And you just said you didn't want it?"
"I know what you're thinking. You want to gather your own people and flourish on your own. I actually thought of that long ago too—steal every last bit of that old thief Gu Zang's fortune, then build from scratch and establish another Ancient Alliance."
"But that simply isn't realistic. It isn't because we lack the ability; it's because the Immortal Domain is only so large."
"The Immortal Court has taken a huge portion, the Ancient Alliance has taken a smaller portion, while the devil immortals occupy a few Unknown Lands and stir up trouble in the known lands along the way."
"If you want to abandon the Ancient Alliance and rely on your own abilities to establish a force of your own, then you either have to draw the devil immortals into your camp and ensure that they obey you."
"That is extremely unrealistic. Those devil immortals are all madmen. They are utterly unreasonable and impossible to reform. Besides, our Ancient Alliance has never cooperated with devil immortals."
"This was not merely old thief Gu Zang's will. It was the shared will of the vast majority of the Ancient Alliance's middle and upper ranks. If you accept devil immortals, you will be cutting yourself off from the Ancient Alliance."
"Then there is splitting the Ancient Alliance and taking away only the portion loyal to yourself. But that is impossible too. If you did that, the Ancient Alliance would descend into chaos before the Immortal Court even came to attack, perhaps