"Not yet..."
Zhao Li watched Xiao Yan leave and murmured under his breath. Although Journey to the West had gone fairly smoothly, not much time had passed, after all. At this stage, it was still a business run at a loss. The time for a hundred flowers to bloom and a bountiful harvest had not yet arrived. Perhaps in another thirty years or so, they would finally usher in an explosive, flourishing development...
Of course, he had his own calculations, but he had no reason to hold others back and stop them from continuing upward. On one hand, he had released Zhu Kun and dealt with him a little, so he was very well-behaved now. On the other, he had also pointed out Xiao Yan's path of gathering Exotic Flames and condensing their Origin. Even without the Ancient Emperor's Legacy, he could still become an emperor, and this, likewise, was one of the ways to strengthen the continent's origin...
From then on, the continent's upper-level forces went into seclusion, the middle level seized resources and used them for the lower level, and under such conditions, the lower level also developed vigorously, creating more resources and value that fed back upward, gradually forming a virtuous cycle...
Under this model, the large and small factions that had originally submitted out of fear of Great Li's power discovered in amazement that the contributions they had first thought were like doing charity had actually given them returns far beyond their expectations. It was not just resources, but fresh blood, and the future.
If the Dou Qi Continent were compared to a person, it was like an old man on the verge of death suddenly growing young, regaining vitality once more. In short, the Dou Qi Continent had come back to life!
One day, the