"The captain and vice-captain of the championship team can receive the title of duke if they join the empire after graduation. That might look like an enormous benefit, but it's really just the beginning of a life spent risking your neck for the empire," Feng Xiaotian warned gravely.
"Of course, I'm not demanding that you cut all ties with the empire. You're individuals, and everyone has the right to choose for themselves. But you can't make that choice blindly. You have to understand its advantages and disadvantages."
In the early days, the Wind, Water, and Fire Families had rendered unparalleled service in founding the Heaven Dou Empire and had even been granted ducal titles.
But what about now? The succession of those titles had long since ended in all three families, and they no longer risked their lives for the Heaven Dou Empire.
Otherwise, the Heaven Dou Empire would never have remained completely unresponsive when the Elephant Armor Sect moved into Element City.
Precisely because they had seen through the true nature of noble titles, the three families strongly resisted passing them down. Growing up immersed in that attitude, Feng Xiaotian had come to share it.
Of course, he was a scion of a great family-a well-fed man who knew nothing of a starving man's hunger. Commoner Soul Masters like Ai Yan would never get ahead if they had to search for cultivation resources entirely on their own. When that time came, becoming an imperial noble would undoubtedly be their best choice.
Qin Yuan was a case in point. Although he had not joined any faction, he had a force of his own backing him.
Back then, Qin Yuan had founded the Golden Saber Shop as soon as he began to rise. Now, the shop had become his blood supply,