The old man behind Shang Yan's back underwent a drastic change in expression when he heard Shang Yan's words.
If Shang Yan had merely asked the Three Reverends to wipe out the lineages that had betrayed the Shang Family on those three continents, the price the Shang Family had to pay—giving the Nether River Commerce branches there to them—would still have been understandable.
After all, with the Shang Family's current strength, even if they wiped out those few lineages, they no longer had the power to completely control those branches.
In that case, they might as well do someone a favor and directly give the three branches to the Three Reverends. That way, they could also build a good relationship with them.
But now Shang Yan wanted to establish a force on the Supreme Continent and then dominate the entire Supreme Continent. That was a different matter altogether.
It might seem that there were no particularly powerful forces on the Supreme Continent right now.
However, this was the center of the entire God Realm. It was not so easy to seize.
Previously, if the Nether River Commerce had gathered all its strength, there might still have been a sliver of a chance that it could occupy the entire Supreme Continent.
But with the Nether River Commerce now torn into pieces, and with so many elites of the Control Guard and Shadow Guard lost,
where would it find the strength to seize the Supreme Continent?
What if that provoked all the martial artists of the God Realm into attacking the Shang Family en masse?
If that happened, the Shang Family had already suffered grievous losses. Its true destruction would probably be just around the corner.
"What? Are you scared?" Shang Yan looked at the old man behind him and asked with