Paying Respects to the East Sea King

The East Sea King had arrived leading seven thousand-zhang warships, which carried cultivator soldiers as well as vast quantities of supplies.

The truly precious and important war materiel had all been transported along with the East Sea King's warships.

What New Sea Commandery was tasked with receiving and transporting were merely relatively low-grade, commonly used war supplies. Only because of their sheer quantity did they need to be transported here in advance and stockpiled in New Sea Commandery.

The seven warships sailed in and anchored in the waters outside New Sea Commandery. They did not enter New Sea Commandery's harbor, nor did the East Sea King show any intention of setting foot in New Sea Commandery.

This was a tradition within the Great Jin Immortal Dynasty. The legacy of the Nine-Rank System had always ensured that local clans wielded considerable power and authority.

Even armies dispatched by the imperial court often found it inappropriate to disturb the local regions.

Otherwise, it could easily stir local suspicion and even lead to conflict.

Yet these Immortal Dynasty armies, fighting on the front lines, could not do without local support, so naturally they could not afford to offend them.

Moreover, ever since members of the imperial clan had joined forces with local clans in rebellion more than two thousand years ago, the Immortal Dynasty's central court had remained extremely wary of collusion between the royal clan and local clans.

Thus, though the East Sea King had arrived with his fleet, he had no intention of engaging in much negotiation or contact with the local powers.

However, as the Commandery Governor of New Sea Commandery—and with New Sea Commandery being the commandery closest to the Demon Race's stronghold in the Eastern Sea—Liang Zhaohuang would certainly have many dealings with the Immortal Dynasty's army and