Less than an hour after emerging from seclusion, Ye Zhen had learned of everything that had happened over the past few days, as well as the full story behind Cult Master Jian Qianxiong's injuries.
In the end, for the sake of further expansion, Jian Qianxiong still spared the Heavenly Net Sect and destroyed Qingyun Fort.
Although Heavenly Net Sect Master Wu Mengshan was still alive, possessed a Soul Weapon, and was immensely powerful, as long as Jian Qianxiong was willing to be ruthless and accept considerable casualties, destroying the Heavenly Net Sect would not have been a problem.
But the casualties required to destroy the Heavenly Net Sect would have been enough to severely hamper the Sun Moon Divine Cult's pace of expansion.
They had yet to fully digest Myriad Stars Tower's territory, and now they had also acquired the territories of the Longevity Sect and Qingyun Fort. This was nearly three times the land the Sun Moon Divine Cult had possessed before.
To digest all that territory required a great deal of manpower—and not newly surrendered manpower, but veteran cult members with a certain degree of loyalty to the Sun Moon Divine Cult.
Even merely occupying the territories of the Longevity Sect and Qingyun Fort was already an enormous strain on the Sun Moon Divine Cult. The more distant branch altars of those two factions had temporarily been abandoned.
If they made up their minds to destroy the Heavenly Net Sect as well, losing another portion of their experts in the process, the territory they needed to occupy would expand yet again. If they kept swallowing land so wildly, the Sun Moon Divine Cult might suffer indigestion.
Moreover, the factions around Qinglan Martial Capital were no pushovers. They had already begun to stir. Once the Sun Moon Divine Cult