Once diluted, the Holy Water could help Xiao Yi and her kin grow stronger quickly. It could also help the other cultivators of the Glazed Sword Sect do the same.
Fang Chen was powerful, but he lacked the time and ability to pull the entire sect forward on his own. Only by bringing its members together and letting everyone realize their potential could they go faster and farther. If everything rested on Fang Chen, it would wear him to death one day. He knew he had to change that and keep the sect from depending on him so heavily.
If the sect relied on him too much, then the moment anything happened to him, the Glazed Sword Sect would plunge straight back into a crisis like this one, unable to face powerful threats from outside. It would be just like the Glazed Sword Sect over ten thousand years ago: a dragon while the Glazed Saint was there, and a worm without him.
That had to change, and soon.
Now that Saint Gu Yu had finally solved the problem of diluting the Holy Water, it was tremendous news for Fang Chen.
On his trip to the Sacred Land, Fang Chen had ransacked five Devil Race camps and gathered a vast trove of treasures. After the energy storm, the Glazed Sword Sect had also found many treasures in the Southern Wastes. Those resources were enough to make the sect's strength rise rapidly for some time to come.
Still, Fang Chen knew that other forces had gained plenty of resources from the resurgence of Spiritual Qi too. The Barbaric Continent was rebuilding itself after being broken apart. The Central Barrens were a boiling pot of chaos, with everyone scrambling for territory, while the Glazed Sword Sect held the Southern Wastes all to itself.