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The overseas lands were rich in resources and could almost entirely sustain themselves. They even possessed certain cultivation resources unavailable in the Central Plains.
Island lords of the inner seas like Wu Changfeng not only had a large island of their own to inhabit, but also controlled numerous islands rich in cultivation resources.
Though these islands were unsuitable for habitation, they contained abundant cultivation resources that needed to be mined. For years, overseas martial artists had cultivated according to this model.
Now that the islands of Wu Changfeng and the others had been destroyed, they had temporarily scattered their clansmen across these resource islands, waiting for the day they could rise again.
Originally, Wu Changfeng and the others had planned to accumulate sufficient strength in the Central Plains before returning overseas to wrest islands from that alliance of trash in the outer seas. But from Yi Jianting's words, it seemed he intended to put down roots in the Central Plains for good?
Yi Jianting shook his head. "The overseas lands are the foundation of our existence. Naturally, we cannot simply abandon them so easily.
"But it never hurts to leave yourself another path of retreat. If we can establish a foundation in the Central Plains as well, then should anything happen overseas, we will have one more route to fall back on.
"You all witnessed this natural disaster. Though those in the True Martial Realm are hailed as Land Deities, only we ourselves know that even genuine immortals could not withstand a natural disaster of that magnitude.
"Before the might of heaven and earth, even True Martial Realm experts are merely somewhat stronger ants."
At Yi Jianting's words, the faces of everyone present turned somewhat pale. Even now,