When the Sword Emperor learned of the Heart of the Earth, he understood just how enormous the benefits involved were.
How could something the Earth Immortal Emperor had been willing to stake his life on, something capable of controlling the Earth Power of the entire Immortal Realm, possibly lack immense benefits?
Moreover, from Zhang Yang's meaning, this thing could be controlled.
It was simply that the one controlling it had to be a Divine Spirit.
Like the Central Thick Earth Divine God.
Their Sword Valley had Divine Spirits too!
His son was also a Divine Spirit at the Immortal King Realm, perfectly suited to take charge of a portion of the Heart of the Earth, wasn't he?
That was Sword Valley's advantage.
Therefore, he wanted to secure one portion for his son.
And the key to achieving all this lay with Zhang Yang.
Unfortunately, with the Heaven-Earth Plate right before them, he could not directly make a deal with Zhang Yang. He could only use a favor owed to express his gratitude for Zhang Yang's help.
Zhang Yang understood what the Sword Emperor meant. In truth, he had deliberately stopped proclaiming other Divine Spirits after proclaiming the Central Thick Earth Divine God.
He had done so to keep the Heaven-Earth Plate in suspense.
He needed more time to deal with the Heaven-Earth Plate.
As long as he won the Heaven-Earth Plate over, the benefits would surely be incomparably great.
As for obtaining more benefits from the Sword Emperor, that was optional.
If he could make a deal, he would be happy; if not, he did not care.
In any case, everything had to be based on safeguarding his own interests first.
Thinking of this, Zhang Yang said solemnly to the Sword Emperor, "Senior, you have contributed to heaven and earth.