"Before, circumstances had forced us to publicly declare that you had been expelled from the sect, while secretly permitting you to found another sect. But times had changed, and the situation in the Taichang Realm had undergone a tremendous upheaval. You now stood at the pinnacle of this realm and had returned to the sect. You were truly the best candidate to take charge of it. If others took the position, they might struggle to command respect. Why must you still insist on founding another sect?"
Clearly, even after returning to the Tianlan Sect, Fang Xiao still intended to establish another sect.
"Master, that is where you are mistaken. It is precisely because the situation has changed so greatly that founding another sect carries even more meaning. Just imagine it: if we truly conquered those four realms in the future, how much benefit could the Tianlan Sect and the Beimíng Sword Sect alone claim, and how much territory could they oversee? Dividing them into branch sects to govern them would not be impossible. But if branches were stationed in different realms, their thoughts might change over time. Should the master decline while the subordinate flourished, who would be master and who subordinate? How would that be defined? We cannot remain in the lower realms forever. If disaster were to arise within our own walls because of this, the fault would be ours."
Fang Xiao's words also plunged Ling Taichu and the others into deep thought.
Though the Tianlan Sect and the Beimíng Sword Sect shared the same roots and supported one another, even exchanging cultivation arts and resources as needed, they were ultimately independent and did not interfere in each other's internal affairs.
But if a Tianlan Sect branch were established and stationed in another realm, there might be no