Demon Vine Minor World.
An invisible beam of blood light entered through the world barrier without disturbing anyone.
This place lay at the edge of the Flame Stone Starfield. It was also where the three thousand Imperial Clan guards led by the Azure Sky Imperial Son had first descended—the starting point of his grand dominion.
As the Azure Sky Imperial Son's great enterprise continued to expand, the Horned Demon Imperial Clan cultivators of the Demon Vine Minor World who had been the first to pledge allegiance saw their status rise with the tide. They became the backbone and core ruling group of the Azure Sky Imperial Son's faction.
That was only inevitable.
If he did not reward those who had defected to him first, how could later arrivals scramble to pledge themselves to him?
The three thousand guards the Azure Sky Imperial Son carried with him could not possibly be split off in large numbers. That would affect both his strength and his safety. He could only rely on the original local powers of each minor world to impose his rule.
This had always been the Horned Demon Imperial Clan's convention.
Their loyalty was guaranteed—they all served an Imperial Son, and one Imperial Son was much the same as another. There would be no restraints, and no one would be foolish enough to use local powers to pay lip service while defying an Imperial Son behind his back, haggling over terms.
Among immortal cultivation forces, that was seeking one's own death.
In short, the Azure Sky Imperial Son's recruitment of defectors had the Horned Demon Imperial Clan's traditions to back it up. In the blink of an eye, he had gathered an army of several million loyal troops. It was a stroke of divine genius, perfect beyond compare.
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