Once it was clear that the interests of cultivators in slumber had to be protected, Sun Slayer Heavenly Lord visibly calmed down. He was no longer so agitated.
"Still no."
"Jiang Ding, do we truly have to bring in other races and human prodigies from beyond our domain?"
Sun Slayer Heavenly Lord could not help saying, "Citizens have prodigies too. Citizens can have children. Give me a hundred years and enough policy support, and the Immortal Sect could easily raise its population to a hundred billion."
"Give me three or four hundred years, and a trillion—even ten trillion—would be easy."
"Among highly intelligent beings of the immortal path, humans possess unusually strong reproductive powers. We truly don't need to look elsewhere. We have enough talent to make use of however many resources we gain. We don't need outsiders."
He deeply disliked beings who were not citizens.
"Not enough."
"It wouldn't be enough, Senior."
Jiang Ding pointed to Flower Vine, the Skeleton-Blood Vine Demon Imperial Heir in the Great Sun Celestial Pool, and sighed. "This woman has the potential of an Immortal Order's Dao Child. She is the last afterglow of a mighty civilization that once ruled a domain. In the future, a vast body of the Skullblood Vine Demon Clan's inherited knowledge will emerge from her bloodline."
"The Skullblood Vine Demon Clan achieved dazzling feats in the sciences of the immortal path—in blood arts, skeletal materials, and the soul."
"That is her value. She isn't merely a Dao Child-level being with exceptional aptitude. She carries an entire civilization of the immortal path!"
"How could even a trillion people compare to that?"
"Well..."
Sun Slayer Heavenly Lord had no answer.
"The same reasoning applies to human prodigies from beyond our domain."
Jiang Ding continued slowly, "Take Blood River King. He carries