Final Unsealing Commission - Land of Convergence

Final Unsealing Commission—Land of Convergence

Did the Hunter's Guild not know that its stars and moons were practically being absorbed through a disguised takeover?

Of course they knew. They understood the situation better than anyone.

It was simply that they had no effective way to respond.

The combination of the Scorching Sun Legion and the Scorching Sun was a crushing, across-the-board advantage over the Hunter's Guild. Perhaps those who had benefited from their high positions could still rely on strong willpower and letting their interests dictate their stance to forcibly resist the Legion's benefits.

But for the grassroots hunters—especially the Fifth Expedition members, who were mostly young people and accounted for more than half of the stars' and moons' total population, a full five hundred people—it would not be so easy to go back after they had tasted something better.

Human adaptability was strong. If Cheng Tian really dusted himself off and left, there was nothing they could do about it. After a painful period of adjustment, they would eventually return to their old lives and start missing the Scorching Sun's benefits at certain moments in the future. Why go back to eating leftovers when they had tasted something fresh?

The Great Commander was a frontline combatant. He appeared to hold a lofty position, but his interests were actually more aligned with those of the grassroots hunters. He understood exactly what kind of "despair" the hunters, who had already been thoroughly assimilated by the Scorching Sun Legion, would fall into once Cheng Tian left.

Not to mention that the Balanced School, which currently maintained the balance between Redemption and Sacrifice and greatly reduced the chances of hunters suffering soul and bodily mutations, existed entirely because of Cheng Tian.

Once Cheng Tian left, no one could perfectly take his place and