"No, merely self-preservation."
Murong Jianyun gently shook his head at that. Though his face looked young, his eyes brimmed with unfathomable depth.
"Our Tyrant Heaven Chamber of Commerce has always placed profit above all else, and so we have gradually become a scattered heap of sand. I want to use the crucial existence of the Tyrant Soul's successor to make the Tyrant Heaven Chamber of Commerce truly unite."
"Only unity allows us to protect ourselves. Otherwise, the Thousand Kings Holy Tower will swallow us clean, bones and all."
Hearing this, Bei Cang fell silent, yet her eyes seemed to say: Aren't you overestimating the Tyrant Soul's successor?
Seeing through Bei Cang's thoughts, Murong Jianyun smiled again. "Even I never expected so many of you to support and protect the Tyrant Soul's successor. It makes me very happy, and very gratified..."
"So I believe our Tyrant Heaven Chamber of Commerce can unite."
"Dong Wu is very clever and thinks greatly of Tyrant Heaven's interests, but he is too skilled at calculation and has neglected the human heart."
"That is why I did not say these things to him just now. Even if I had, he would not have believed them..."
"And he is likely still wondering why, despite deliberately letting Ba Lian act so arrogantly, and despite the Tyrant Soul's successor being so detestable, so many Earth Deciders are still willing to stand behind him... He cannot understand it. Can it be that you cannot either?"
At this point, Murong Jianyun turned back and gazed at Bei Cang behind him...
Bei Cang slowly opened her deeply wrinkled eyes and replied in an aged woman's voice, "Because of backbone and pride. Because those who support the Tyrant Soul's successor do not do so solely for profit, but also because they possess hearts