Dividing the Spoils and Painting Grand Visions

The independent cultivators all thought this way, so naturally, they no longer had any scruples about what they themselves were doing within this scope.

Strictly speaking, from the moment they had started with Northern Origin Station, there had been no justice whatsoever in their actions.

Or rather, they were simply following the cultivators' rule of the strong devouring the weak.

It was a very interesting thing.

What most independent cultivators hated most was sect cultivators relying on their great power to exploit them without bottomless limits.

Yet now that the tables had turned and they began enjoying the benefits brought by plundering sect cultivators, the vast majority fell silent instead.

Heyang City was now filled with song and dance, utterly unaffected by the massive investigation outside.

There were even quite a few radicals within the city taking the opportunity to seize the right to speak, hoping to stir up hatred and drag everyone into the war between the major sects and the local powers.

Naturally, Ye Xiu found a way to suppress the momentum of those people.

What the independent cultivators needed to do now was rapidly develop and raise their overall strength. The major sects intended to exploit the quietly rising minor sects beneath them because these newly emerging local powers had already begun, in a practical sense, to affect their rule.

But that did not mean they held no wariness toward the power gathered by the independent cultivators.

The cultivators of this world were ultimately divided by differences. The rules of the cultivation world—where the strong devoured the weak and sect lineage determined one's place—and the vested interests born from them would not simply vanish.

Once the minor sects that were presently the most intolerable had been eliminated or brought back under control, would those major sects still