Gu Huaixin did not ask who had carried the message to Wei Xun. How many people across all of Qi State would dare speak to Wei Xun like that?
He did not ask how Wei Xun had responded, either.
The fact that Wei Xun had passed the message along was already a response in itself.
Wei Xun might not have feared that person. But the Sea Fishing Tower of today was still nowhere near qualified to clash head-on with Qi State.
Perhaps after the Sea Suppression Alliance was founded, some Sea Fishing Tower cultivators had grown more confident than ever. Quite a few believed they could stand as equals with Qi State, and some had even suggested establishing affiliated sects in the Eastern Domain.
But those like Gu Huaixin, who stood at the very highest level of the sect, knew all too well just how great the gap between the Sea Fishing Tower and Qi State remained.
Bringing the Near-Sea Archipelago under the Sea Fishing Tower's control was a long-term, comprehensive, multifaceted undertaking. It was no work that could be accomplished overnight, nor would its success be measured by one or two events. Every level of the Sea Fishing Tower had to act, and every aspect of the effort had to be set in motion.
From major undertakings like founding the Sea Suppression Alliance, Wei Xun's attempt to gain a foothold in the Lost Realm, and the assassination of Myriad Eyes to delay the Sea Race's rise, to smaller matters like Granny Bizhu's effort to take complete control of the Five Immortals Sect and Chen Zhitao's bid to cement his reputation as the leading young cultivator in the Near-Sea Archipelago...
Throughout this process, the Sea Fishing Tower was also continually testing how much patience Qi State had.
For instance, establishing