Meng Chen gazed into the distance and nodded lightly.
"If the Five Aggregates Immortal Domain went to war, our Purple Qi Cultivation Kingdom would have no power to fight back. There would be no need for them to go to such lengths. We should face it with an even mind and confront the gap between our nation and the Vast Immortal Domain. That is the long-term solution."
"Hehe." The elder smiled. "A commander must see far ahead, keep an open heart, and remember that the road is long."
"Yes," Meng Chen said.
"Yes!"
Solemn, perfectly synchronized voices also came from behind them.
Yet the exchange of a thousand Purple Qi Beasts still made them secretly click their tongues. These beasts fed on stars and all living things, and had once been invincible throughout the Purple Qi Star Domain. Later, the Purple Qi Ancestor crossed the starry wilds, slew Purple Qi Beasts to prove his Dao, and founded the nation.
Afterward, these violent colossal beasts had been exiled by the empire to patrol the starry skies. They were nothing but hot potatoes—simply impossible to raise.
The beasts recognized no masters either. Even if they were driven to conquer star domains, all they left behind was devastated starry sky, utterly meaningless. Trading them away was excellent!
As for those so-called rare resources, they were actually quite common throughout the Purple Qi Cultivation Empire's star domains. Gathering them merely took time, but manpower was the one thing they lacked least.
The trade was an enormous profit!
On the Five Aggregates Immortal Domain's side, the Immortal Spirit Stone veins they offered were low-grade... because the Imperial Emperor Clan of the Purple Qi Cultivation Kingdom had practically lit up at the sight of those stones. Were these not immortal treasures that could increase cultivation out