"Senior Zhuge, I want you to compile the resources of the entire Five Prefectures of the Human Race. Any force with a Dao Integration True Lord overseeing it—list them all. I also need to know their approximate strength."
"Sorry to trouble you, Senior."
Ye Lin looked at the young man before him and spoke softly.
"Rest assured, Sect Master. I only need three days to compile it all for you. Sharing the Sect Master's burdens is our duty to begin with; there is no need to be so polite."
Zhuge fanned himself as he spoke with a smile.
On one hand, they were here to assist the Sect Master. On the other, they had been sent by the Ancestral Land to keep watch over him. After all, there had been no shortage of bastard Sect Masters throughout history.
Should the Sect Master have any rash ideas, they would stop him at once.
The two sides worked together and kept each other in check.
The Sect Master held immense authority, but the five of them together could stand against him.
This was to prevent Nameless Mountain from eventually becoming the Sect Master's one-man court. That would be truly terrifying; the Human Race itself might even be overturned.
That was the very sight the Ancestral Land least wished to see.
After all, ambition was something cultivated little by little. Perhaps when one first became Sect Master, one only wished to strengthen the Human Race wholeheartedly and act for its sake.
But time was the best test of a person. As time flowed on, ambition would slowly take root.
For instance, some Sect Masters of Nameless Mountain in history had eventually even grown dissatisfied with the very existence of the Ancestral Land. *I'm the Sect Master of Nameless Mountain, the common ruler of