"Choosing Layer 1 would involve the fewest conflicts of interest. That way... all the major factions could tolerate it."
"And Layer 1 is just a bunch of pots and jars. Even if they were all smashed, we could simply buy another batch. It would be enough for Zhang Yu to experiment as he pleased, without any worries hanging over him."
Although Bu Yuangui, as a supporter of the Hunyuan Dao Lineage, had always encouraged all kinds of competition both within and outside the Sect,
in his view, the competition he encouraged was healthy competition—competition that could raise the Sect's overall strength, enhance the Immortal Emperor's competitiveness, and increase the wealth of the Immortal Clan. But if it stirred up a world-shaking war among countless factions throughout the Sect, one that might even drag himself into it, then it was not healthy competition. It was vicious competition.
Even when past conflicts between Dao Lineages and Immortal Dao competition had accumulated to a certain point and triggered an Economic Tribulation, at least every major faction had filled their pots to overflowing before the tribulation. It was only during the tribulation itself... that trillions upon trillions of living beings in Kunxu had to shoulder the cost together."
In Bu Yuangui's calculations, this sort of competition—in which the Immortal Emperor and the major factions took the lion's share of the profits, then made the whole world bear the cost—was an inherent feature bred by Kunxu's current Sect system. It would only push the Immortal Dao's development onward step by step.
But if Zhang Yu truly sparked a Law Article war, that would be a policy failure, and might even trigger a Sect crisis."
In Bu Yuangui's view, if the Myriad Laws Sect erupted into internal strife... beyond control, internal strife that caused losses to