Alliance

Central Plaza of the Blessed Cultivator Courtyard.

Hearing what Lin Fan said, the crowd feasting in the field discussed the matter vigorously!

As for Ye Qingxuan, he felt somewhat dazed as he looked at the figures of Li Xuan and Zhu Dafu, matching them up one by one with those two naive figures in his memory, and thought to himself:

So it is the two of them.

When Ye Qingxuan had just entered the Xuantian Sect, he had interactions with Li Xuan and Zhu Dafu.

At that time, they were both youths of twelve years old.

Back then, he had even come into conflict with a friend of Li Xuan and Zhu Dafu, a fellow named something like Long Tian.

Pity that later on, that fellow named Long Tian seemed to have failed to pass the evaluation of the Xuantian Sect.

Ye Qingxuan recalled the information revealed by Long Tian at that time, as it seemed these two, Li Xuan and Zhu Dafu, had already recruited quite a few blessed cultivators at the Xuantian Sect Reception Courtyard before they had even formally joined the Xuantian Sect?

Thinking of this, Ye Qingxuan swept his gaze across the crowd in the field and looked meaningfully at Lin Fan, Li Xuan, and Zhu Dafu in the center of the plaza.

It seemed they came prepared!

Sure enough, the banquet fell quiet for only a moment before quite a few people stood up and laughed, saying:

"Hahaha, Junior Brother Lin, isn't this clearly you helping us? With the existence of the alliance, we won't have to rack our brains and go through the trouble of dealing with these trivial matters in the future."

"That's right! Since we won't be able to leave the blessed land anyway when the time comes, we might as well hand the resources produced by the blessed land over to the alliance to help us exchange them for spirit stones."

"Hehehe, this makes sense. Senior Brother Lin is truly benevolent!"

Hearing what everyone said, quite a few blessed cultivator courtyard disciples on the outskirts of the banquet also revealed looks of being moved.

Li Xuan, who had remained silent all along and observed the whole scene, knew upon seeing this that the time had come, and signaled Lin Fan with his eyes.

Sensing Li Xuan's gaze, Lin Fan immediately understood, and taking advantage of the supportive outcries from several friends in the field, he seized the momentum to take out a scroll of contracts and shouted loudly:

"Since everyone has no objections, then we—"

"Hold on!"

At this moment, a square-faced youth on the outskirts of the banquet interrupted Lin Fan's words, stood up, and sneered, saying:

"Then may I ask, Senior Brother Lin, what rules do we need to abide by after joining the alliance?"

Hearing this, the people in the field who had previously been somewhat moved all revealed hesitant expressions!

Seeing that matters had taken a turn, Lin Fan hurriedly spoke in explanation:

"Rest assured, Junior Brother Xiao Feng! Everyone doesn't need to abide by too many rules; you just need to follow the market statistics determined by the alliance when choosing spirit items to plant in your blessed land in the future."

"Meaning that from now on, whatever spirit items everyone cultivates in their blessed land will all need to be decided by the alliance, right? Heh, I'll take my leave!"

After hearing what Lin Fan said, the square-faced youth named Xiao Feng directly pointed out the crux of the issue, and then without the slightest hesitation, he turned around and left the banquet plaza.

As for the others on the outer field, seeing Xiao Feng leave, they also took their leave one after another and began finding excuses to depart the banquet plaza:

"Senior Brother Lin! I have matters to attend to, I'll take my leave first."

"That's right, Senior Brother Lin, I also have urgent matters, so I'll take my leave first. Please forgive me!"

Lin Fan's face changed, and he once again spoke out in assurance:

"Rest assured, everyone, the categories of spirit items tallied by the alliance are definitely of the highest value and will not cause anyone to suffer losses! Please trust Lin Fan, esteemed junior brothers!"

However, these words from Lin Fan did not have much effect.

Yet, because of the secret layout and recruitment that Li Xuan and Zhu Dafu had initiated long ago,

in the end, over thirty people still chose to stay, sign the contract, and join the alliance, taking up half the share of this batch of blessed cultivator courtyard disciples.

Seeing that this was the situation, Li Xuan finally spoke up:

"Junior Brother Lin, having over thirty people join the alliance in the early stage is already enough. Since the other people are unwilling, there's no need to force it!"

If they were unwilling to listen to their arrangements to cultivate spirit items, then for them, establishing this blessed cultivator Alliance had fundamentally no reason to exist.

Acquiring spirit items at market prices was not difficult within the Xuantian Sect.

What they wanted was merely to gather the strength of numerous blessed cultivators to encroach upon the market of a certain low-tier spirit item.

In the early stage, over thirty blessed cultivators would already be enough.

Hearing Li Xuan speak, Lin Fan also stopped his attempt to continue recruiting.

Watching the blessed cultivator courtyard disciples leave one by one, Lin Fan's eyes leaked out a trace of a regretful expression.

The reason he agreed to lead the establishment of this alliance for Li Xuan and Zhu Dafu was because the two promised him forty percent of the alliance's profits.

His inheritance quota for a blessed land was inherited from a second-tier blessed land.

Although the rank was not high, the future path was much broader than those blessed cultivators who directly contracted first-rank spirit lands.

After all, a second-tier blessed land far surpassed a first-tier blessed land, whether in terms of the speed at which it increased a blessed cultivator's spirit root or the benefits it brought.

If he could further utilize the massive resources obtained from the alliance to nurture the blessed land to the third tier, then his future could still possess a glimmer of hope.

Therefore, Lin Fan attached great importance to the construction of this blessed cultivator alliance.

Sitting in the corner on the outskirts of the banquet, Ye Qingxuan,

seeing that this play had concluded, also stood up on his own accord, burped, and prepared to leave the banquet plaza.

After leaving the plaza, Ye Qingxuan had not walked very far and was just preparing to return to his small courtyard via sword flight

when he unexpectedly found that the little fatty who had been sitting beside him earlier had chased after him again, asking curiously:

"Why is everyone unwilling to join the alliance? I feel it's quite alright?"

Ye Qingxuan glanced at the little fatty and asked in return:

"You feel it's quite alright, then why did you leave?"

Hearing Ye Qingxuan's words, the little fatty chuckled and said:

"Hehe, I saw that everyone left, so I left! My mother told me that if I don't know the path to walk, I should just follow along behind everyone else. Although there won't be a great harvest, at least it will be much safer!"

Looking at the grinning little fatty, Ye Qingxuan's heart stirred, and he asked curiously:

"Then why did you insist on exchanging contact marks with everyone?"

"My mother told me to make more friends in the future; an extra friend means an extra path."

"Then where is your mother?"

The little fatty's grinning face suddenly paused; he stopped in his tracks with a desolate expression:

"My mother passed away!"

Hearing this, Ye Qingxuan likewise stopped in his tracks, looked at the little fatty, and said apologetically:

"I'm sorry!"

"It's fine. My mother told me to be happier in the future, and I'm not sad anymore, hehe!"

The little fatty shook his head, his face still maintaining a grinning appearance.

"Right, you haven't told me why everyone is unwilling to join the alliance yet?"

Seeing the little fatty ask again, Ye Qingxuan spoke:

"What do you think everyone desires the most after becoming a blessed cultivator?"

Hearing this, the little fatty shook his head in confusion:

"I don't know!"

Seeing this, Ye Qingxuan cast his gaze towards the high altitude and said:

"It's freedom!"

"Freedom?"

"Yes, that's right, it's freedom!"

Having said that, Ye Qingxuan flew away alone on his sword, leaving this place.

Once most ordinary people became blessed cultivators, they could no longer see any hope for the future, and these blessed cultivators perhaps did not value benefits all that much.

The reason everyone was unwilling to join the alliance was simply because they did not want to don yet another layer of shackles after already enduring the ones brought by the blessed land.

The reason quite a few people were still willing to stay and choose to join the so-called alliance was simply because these people had not yet formally become blessed cultivators and had not realized this point yet.