Chapter 1187: Recruiting the Immortals, Cursed
As they spoke, Shen Mo revealed his intention to recruit True Immortals to help him guard the gateway and asked Daoist Zhengming for his thoughts on the matter.
Daoist Zhengming was somewhat tempted, but he did not immediately agree. Instead, he tactfully explained the concerns in his heart to Shen Mo...
Besides coming to thank Shen Mo, he had also harbored a trace of intent to test the waters.
After all, immortals who rose to prominence as swiftly as Shen Mo generally lacked enough True Immortal realm experts beneath them to help guard their gateway. They were usually willing to share out a portion of their merit and achievements to recruit external True Immortals.
However, this was a two-way choice and required both sides to reach a consensus.
Although Shen Mo's battle achievements over the past century had been dazzling and his immortal name had spread far and wide, he was, in the end, only a newly ascended Divine Immortal who had not long since gone to guard the Dituoluo Star Peak.
Compared with veteran True Immortals who had guarded the gateways of heaven and earth for hundreds of thousands or even millions of years, his seniority was still shallow. Even True Immortals like Daoist Zhengming, who intended to serve under him, needed to wait and see whether he possessed sufficient cultivation to withstand the attacks of the remnants of the old days, and whether he had strong enough methods to forge the gateway under his guard into an impregnable fortress!
For True Immortals like Daoist Zhengming, having one more avenue to earn merit was naturally a good thing, but losing their lives over it was not worth the price.
So long as they lived long enough, they could slowly accumulate enough merit and