Jiang Yunchen was right. Chen Changan was paving the way for himself, and he was indeed using the resources at his disposal to make the people of the Eternal Land stronger and stronger.
If Chen Changan could come to rule the entire Eternal Land and completely change how it treated outsiders, then that would be one thing.
But the problem was, why should anyone else believe he could actually do it? And why should they assume that was what he intended, or that he would even try?
Perhaps, in the eyes of the Outsider Alliance, Chen Changan was simply using his resources to curry favor with the natives, hoping to cling to life a little longer.
And the result of that would be a stronger and stronger native population, making it ever harder for outsiders who arrived in the Eternal Land in the future to survive.
"The reason no one from the Outsider Alliance has shown up is that they may not know about you or the Miracle Treasure Pavilion yet."
"They're probably hiding in a higher circle."
"But once they find out, you'll have a choice to make."
"Have you thought about what you'll do?" Jiang Yunchen asked with a frown.
In Jiang Yunchen's view, this would be no easy problem to handle. If Chen Changan mishandled it, the Outsider Alliance would turn against him and target him, perhaps even branding him a traitor to the outsiders.
But to Chen Changan, this had never been a problem.
"Then tell me, are the people of the Eternal Land who've pledged themselves to me traitors to the Eternal Land?" Chen Changan asked with a smile.
"Well... it's a personal choice. You can't really call them traitors. It's just that everyone else can't accept it."
"If people from the Eternal Land can