Scheming

North Guard Island was now overseen by a Nascent Soul Middle Stage cultivator named Xiao Lu. Since he had not invaded the Northern Shu Continent and had merely occupied this island to do business with the Northern Shu Continent, he had maintained peace with the Northern Shu Continent's various major sects.

Xiao Lu was not the Heavenly Inquiry Sect that had occupied this place a hundred years ago. After the Heavenly Inquiry Sect's Nascent Soul Middle Stage cultivator fell, the Azure Dragon Sect he belonged to swallowed up the Heavenly Inquiry Sect when its strength plummeted.

The Azure Dragon Sect had taken over the Heavenly Inquiry Sect wholesale. With the situation beyond saving, the Heavenly Inquiry Sect's cultivators chose to surrender.

As a result, almost everything the Heavenly Inquiry Sect possessed was received by the Azure Dragon Sect.

Among those things was the shipping route from the Eastern Qi Continent to the Northern Shu Continent. Given the Northern Shu Continent's barrenness, any slightly larger force looked down on this business.

But the Azure Dragon Sect saw profit in it. The Northern Shu Continent still had some unique resources, especially since it still preserved some Divine Power Inheritances. That was its greatest value.

And this intelligence was known to hardly any cultivators on the Eastern Qi Continent, or even in the entire Cultivation World.

The Azure Dragon Sect took over the Heavenly Inquiry Sect's contact with the Northern Shu Continent, and they chose the best method: using benefits to associate with the Nascent Soul cultivators.

It was laughable, really. On the Northern Shu Continent, a Nascent Soul Early Stage cultivator dared to call himself an ancestor. In the Cultivation World, even great cultivators would not dare use such a title.

Perhaps only a sealed-off continent like the Northern Shu Continent would