Before coming to the Yizhi Sand Sea, before cooperating with the Tiger Demon Tribe, Ye Zhen had already considered the matter of the Yizhi Temple.
If he intervened, what should become of the Yizhi Temple?
Or rather, how should Ye Zhen handle his relationship with the Yizhi Temple?
Should he merely lend a hand, make use of it, or take control and develop it vigorously?
After much deliberation, Ye Zhen made his final decision.
And thus came today's actions.
Everything Ye Zhen had done to the Yizhi Temple today was a choice made after considering his own development and all manner of future crises.
Whether it was a possible future confrontation with the Heaven Temple or Ye Zhen's reconstruction of the Mystic Gate Sect, he needed a certain amount of power and a core group of followers.
Even though the Five Immortals Sect had a certain foundation, it was absolutely impossible for Ye Zhen to make every Creation Realm cultivator in the Five Immortals Sect obey him completely with just his words.
Once a sect reached a certain scale, factions and struggles were bound to arise within it.
That was what they called politics.
From the many old stories told by A-Chou and A Yuan, Ye Zhen had already discovered that, aside from external causes, the Mystic Gate Sect's destruction back then had also involved various internal flaws and crises.
This was related to Master Lu Li's personality.
Master Lu Li believed that the Mystic Gate Sect ought to stand apart from the world.
But in truth, Master Lu Li might have been able to stand apart from the world, while the Mystic Gate Sect had no way of doing so.
It was precisely because of all these considerations that Ye Zhen had, today, almost as if staging a palace