Emotions Suppressed Like a Volcano

"Just as I thought—numbers are real, tangible strength."

Huai Jin True Person was naturally beaming with delight.

A project that had originally been expected to take at least several years of grueling work could now be completed smoothly in three months at most. What could have made him happier than that?

When he and Ye Xiu had first devised this plan, he had still felt somewhat guilty. But now that he saw this solid foundation being built before his eyes, that trace of guilt vanished without a trace.

What guilt? What trickery and deception? Could a scheme devised for the proper development of the sect truly be called a scam?

This was clearly a plan!

"Don't celebrate too soon. Have you forgotten who these cultivators, so accomplished in cultivation and firm in will, ultimately belonged to?"

Ye Xiu sneered. "You don't seriously think the little spirit stone compensation you hand out every day is enough to make these elites selected by the Myriad Clouds Sect come running after your orders with their tails wagging, do you?"

With Ye Xiu dousing him with a bucket of cold water right over the head, Huai Jin True Person was instantly dragged out of his excitement and back to reality.

That was right. In the end, the reason he had managed to persuade the Myriad Clouds Sect to invest manpower in helping them was because he had cleverly set up a game.

Within that game, his identity as the hero who had saved the sect, his suddenly soaring strength, the opportunities that might exist, the Myriad Clouds Sect's current eagerness to raise its own strength and influence, and even the ambitious spirit stirred up among this batch of young cultivators—

Not one of those factors could be missing. If a problem had arisen in