"That's not it. But I don't have the right to mine the ore veins in our Sky City—the right belongs to the city lord. Without his orders, there's nothing I can do. Right now, the ore veins are being guarded by demonic cultivators. The moment anyone dares to occupy them, they'll probably encounter even more demonic cultivators before they've mined much at all. Is your Windmist City planning to seize them, or are you planning to mine them legally?" Xue Qingcheng asked.
"What do you mean, legally or illegally? The Demon Domain of Muxian Continent belongs to those demonic cultivators? What a joke! The things of heaven and earth naturally belong to all living beings under heaven. Do they become theirs just because they say so? Besides, if the Muxian Continent Alliance hadn't toppled them, would the demonic cultivators have this opportunity?" I sneered.
"Heh-heh, toppling the Muxian Continent Alliance was my idea too. Who told them to be so arrogant and overbearing? Now the demonic cultivators have given part of the ore veins to us for free, and they've also done business with our Sky City Treasure Pavilion, selling us mining rights to some of the ore veins. That's precisely because of this matter," Xue Qingcheng said.
"The Zhongyuan Mountains belong to everyone in the end. We can't let anyone monopolize them. You know the situation in my Windmist City too. We can't resign ourselves to being beneath others, nor can we afford to, because everyone is crying out for food." I thought to myself that she truly was my woman. It was one thing for her to govern the entire Nine Heavens and Genesis Heaven without falling behind anyone; even after coming here, she was still riding the tide of the times.
"Then we can only rely on