Releasing the news that he had defeated Xiao Yuanli, True Immortal Purple Glow, was naturally not merely for the sake of a little empty fame.
The reason Zhou Yang had acted so high-profile this time was mainly related to the grand plan he was about to undertake.
It was foreseeable that once his grand plan began and became known to others, trouble would surely come one after another.
But if people learned beforehand that he already possessed the strength to defeat a Nascent Soul Ninth Layer cultivator at the "Half-step True Immortal" realm, far fewer people would come looking for trouble with him and the Zhou family.
Especially since he was still so young, with immeasurable potential ahead of him.
Of course, another reason was to repay the Xuan Yang Immortal Sect for lending him the cave abode, and to help the Xuan Qing Dao Alliance, whose influence had waned, restore its former prestige.
Just as Zhou Yang had expected, after the news spread, True Person Qingyang and True Person Chongyang of the Jade Purity Dao Sect both personally rushed to the Huohua Mountain cave abode to visit him.
The two even proposed that he take up the post of Honorary Great Elder of the Xuan Qing Dao Alliance, promising him an existing sixth-rank spirit mountain as a permanent daoist ground.
However, Zhou Yang had no interest in being this so-called Honorary Great Elder, so he naturally declined their goodwill with polite words.
Still, he gave the two men a reassuring pill to swallow.
That was, he promised that whenever other superpowers invaded the Xuan Qing Dao Alliance, he would help block their Nascent Soul Ninth Layer "Half-step True Immortal" realm experts.
With this promise from him, True Person Qingyang and the other man no longer felt quite so disappointed