Only after securing enough benefits could we discuss how to divide them. That was the boldness needed to accomplish great things. As for the investment, of course it meant risking our lives to seize control of the passage. So even though I knew the Ye Family's ambitions did not end there, for now we could only endure in silence. At the very least, they certainly would not make a move at this time. They would have to wait until they had gained enough benefits before kicking me out.
But by then, it would be hard to say who would be kicking whom. Who could not manage the passage? Yet if they wanted all five worlds to continuously deliver a steady stream of benefits to them, then I would have to be the one calling the shots.
Just as the intelligence we had obtained earlier indicated, after seeing the sand table, the Ye Family's power was laid bare before me. The densely packed red dots on it numbered eight or nine hundred after a careful count. The other-colored dots, such as those representing the Southern Immortal Alliance, also included more than four hundred Tribulation Transcendence cultivators. The Western Immortal Alliance had over a hundred as well. No wonder the Ye Family wanted to become the overall alliance leader—they truly possessed sufficient strength.
The overall strength of Eastern Heaven was indeed formidable. By the same token, one could imagine how powerful the Eastern Immortal Alliance, the strongest force in Eastern Heaven, must be.
After everyone showed sufficient sincerity, we quickly worked out a counterattack plan. Specifically, the Heavenly Unity Path would represent Southern Heaven, while the Ye Family would represent Eastern Heaven. The two forces would advance side by side.
The Southern Heaven forces would naturally still use the Sky-Splitting Flood Dragon