Stage Mission Complete, Obtained Five Silver Summoning Cards!

The next day.

The news spread.

One stone stirred a thousand waves!

Nearly all the powerful experts of the Jia Ma Empire's major factions had been slaughtered in that battle.

The Misty Cloud Sect and the Jia Ma Imperial Family immediately took the lead in announcing that everyone involved in the battle had been expelled from their sects.

Though it was merely for show.

After all, the people had already been reduced to ashes.

But they still sent people to scatter their ashes!

Then they sent eighty percent of their sect's resources to the Ye Emperor Hall.

They submitted to the Ye Emperor Hall and recognized it as the overlord of the Jia Ma Empire.

Those were still the major factions with some foundation.

The other sects and clans, upon receiving news of the defeat, feared that the Ye Emperor Hall would settle scores with them later.

They directly abandoned their homes and wealth.

The major factions were reshuffled. Those sects that had not participated in the battle began swallowing up weaker factions one after another.

They also handed all the resources they seized over to the Ye Emperor Hall in exchange for protection.

New sects sprang up like bamboo shoots after the rain.

Jia Ma Empire, underground casino.

"My ten thousand gold coins!"

"You damned major factions, you really deserve to die!"

"I trusted you people so much for nothing!"

Outside the casino.

Many people clutched their heads and wept, their cries heart-wrenching!

There was no other reason.

They had all bet on the major factions to win and lost everything.

They cried to heaven, but heaven gave no answer; they cried to earth, but earth gave no reply.

"I'm rich! I'm rich!"

Only one person at the scene burst into laughter.

It was that fellow who had gone all in on the left side.

He had made a killing!

Take a gamble, turn manual into automatic.

Now he could go enjoy himself tonight.

The news spread farther and farther, like a winged butterfly gradually spreading toward the regions surrounding the Jia Ma Empire.

Jia Ma Imperial City.

Among the Three Great Families of the Imperial Capital.

"What are you doing?!"

"You've gone insane!"

"Do you know where this is?!"

"This is the Imperial Capital Mu Family!"

"One of the empire's Three Great Families! Are you looking to die?!"

"Fuck your mother!"

A burly man rushed over and kicked the speaking man flying.

"What the hell is the Mu Family?"

"The Jia Ma Empire now belongs to the Ye Emperor Hall."

"We're handing these resources over to the higher sect. Maybe we can even get to be Utility Disciples."

"Brothers, grab your weapons and loot them!"

Nalan Family.

"Ah! Rumors have ruined me!"

"Which idiot said the Xiao Family and the Ye Emperor Hall were doomed? Step forward!"

The Xiao Family had truly risen in one step to the heavens.

Though the Xiao Family's overall strength was lacking, as an affiliated faction of the Ye Emperor Hall, they stood beneath one sect and above ten thousand sects within the Jia Ma Empire!

"Those rumors have ruined the Nalan Family!"

"Otherwise, if I had brought my clansmen to stand with the Ye Emperor Hall, wouldn't we have soared to greatness by now?!"

"Oh, give it a rest."

"You say a few words and you really start putting on airs?"

"Your Nalan Family? The Xiao Family Third Young Master is the Direct Disciple of the Ye Emperor Hall Master."

"Your Nalan Family even went to the Xiao Family to break off the engagement back then, not knowing your own limits. Why would you go there now? To court death?"

"If the current Xiao Family sneezed, your Nalan Family would be wiped out."

Ye Emperor Hall.

Congratulations, Host. You have completed the stage mission: Make Your Name Known Throughout the Jia Ma Empire. Would you like to claim the reward?

Main mission: Make Your Name Known Throughout the Northwest Continent. Please continue working hard, Host. A massive reward will be issued upon completion.

"So this mission has stages?"

"System, claim the reward."

Within the Emperor Hall, Ye Changge sat in the main seat, examining the system interface.

Reward successfully claimed.

Congratulations, Host. You have obtained five Silver Summoning Cards.

Congratulations, Host. You have obtained the Green Lotus Warship.

Silver Summoning Card: Can summon experts from the Dou Ancestor Realm to the Dou Saint Realm!

Green Lotus Warship: The Ye Emperor Hall's exclusive warship. It can travel ten thousand miles in an instant and can withstand attacks from Half-Saint Realm experts at most. After charging, it can fire light cannons with power equal to the full-force strike of a mid-stage Dou Venerate expert.

Good stuff!

Ye Changge had not expected this system reward to bring him another pleasant surprise.

There was no need to say anything about the Summoning Cards.

But this Green Lotus Warship was truly a good item. Just imagining himself riding an imposing warship into battle, then blasting his enemies into slag with a single cannon shot—the sight would be incredible!

"Teacher, the storage room we just built has been filled again!"

Shi Hao was helpless. Every few minutes, some faction came hauling over several cartloads of goods.

They came with ten or more carts at a time, each loaded with sack after sack.

Damn it! Were resources free or something? Why were they sending them over so crazily?

In just half a day today, they had already rebuilt the storage room five times.

He had never dreamed that one day, he would be troubled by having too many resources...

"Keep the Dou Skills and cultivation techniques above the Xuan rank."

"Return the scraps."

"Or just throw them away. Those are what my Ye Emperor Hall lacks least."

"Yes, Teacher."

Shi Hao went off miserably to collect resources again.

Ye Changge then looked toward the Xiao Family Members in the great hall.

"Though the difference in strength was enormous in this battle, your Xiao Family still stood firmly by the Ye Emperor Hall's side. Very good!"

In this Dou Qi Continent, where the strong preyed on the weak, how many factions could truly accomplish that?

It was already good enough if they did not stab you in the back or kick you while you were down.

"Hall Master, this is what the Xiao Family should do."

"As an affiliated faction, if our main sect is in trouble, even if we are separated by tens of thousands of miles, even if we must perish together, the Xiao Family will not retreat half a step."

"Are you not afraid of death?"

Ye Changge stared into the eyes of the Xiao Family Members.

In that situation, the Xiao Family had been like an egg striking a rock.

"Though facing millions, I shall press forward!"

"Good! Very good!"

"As long as my Ye Emperor Hall does not fall, your Xiao Family will endure for ten thousand generations!"

Xiao Zhan did not know how important that one sentence was. Looking back upon it ten thousand years later, he would be immensely grateful.

Of course, that was a story for later.

"Xiao Yan, take your father to the Technique Hall and choose a few Xuan-rank cultivation techniques and Dou Skills. Then go to your eldest senior brother and collect one hall's worth of resources."

"Go."

The Xiao Family was still too weak. It had to grow stronger quickly to keep up with the Ye Emperor Hall.

Want to know how to increase strength quickly?

Don't ask. The answer was money and resources!

"Yes, Teacher."

"Thank you, Hall Master."

"Oh, Hall Master, I have one more request."

Xiao Zhan, who had just turned to leave, turned back around.

"Can we build a new city a hundred li below Ye Emperor Hall Mountain?"

"A city?"

That was a good idea. How had he not thought of it?

Major factions all had their own exclusive cities, each renowned throughout the land. They occupied their territories, drawing in resources from every direction.

Countless geniuses would also come upon hearing their fame, laying a foundation for Sect Recruitment.

"Sure, that's a good idea."

"Call it Green Lotus City. You may take any resources you lack from the sect. I'll have Deacon Ye Cheng coordinate with you on this matter."

If he was going to build it, he might as well build the best.

Moreover, the Dou Qi density here far surpassed that of the outside world. Given time, Green Lotus City would surely become the greatest city in the Jia Ma Empire, or even the entire Northwest Continent.

After Xiao Yan and the others left.

Ye Changge opened the system interface again.

"System, use all the Summoning Cards."

He rubbed his hands excitedly.

Damn it, five Silver Summoning Cards.

Surely one of them could summon a Dou Saint expert, right?

Even if he could not draw a Nine-star Dou Sheng.

It wouldn't be too much to ask for a Half-Saint Realm expert, would it?