Zhao Li skipped over the matter of obtaining a great fortune within the Green Lotus and merely relayed the Green Lotus's plea to the First Emperor.
The First Emperor was not surprised. He had already guessed as much when he discovered the Green Lotus and saw its past within it. He nodded calmly, wanting to hear what this junior had in mind, and asked:
"This is by no means an easy matter. What do you plan to do?"
Over the tens of thousands of years before Zhao Li came here, the Green Lotus had only barely recovered from Second Grade to Third Grade. Of course, that did not mean its current blooming into Fourth Grade was Zhao Li's achievement alone. He had merely triggered its qualitative change when it had accumulated enough to reach a critical point.
Even if it was granted that it recovered two grades over tens of thousands of years, that speed might not have been slow. But compared to the lifespan of living beings, even a hundred or a thousand years was already an extremely long time, let alone ten thousand. Asking someone to devote their efforts to something that might show no results for thousands of years was difficult!
The First Emperor was not the only one who knew that the intervals required for World Evolution were often measured in tens of thousands of years; Zhao Li knew it as well. Seeing that the First Emperor's expression seemed to be testing him, he pondered briefly before shaking his head and saying:
"Even with the remnants of that former plane, the Dou Qi Continent only developed to its present state through the countless efforts of countless predecessors over endless time. By myself, I absolutely cannot compare to so many extraordinarily talented predecessors. Making the continent stronger