Everyone present nodded slightly. The Ding Prefecture Rebellion had indeed crossed the line.
Fang Yun continued, "I need your help. Or rather, I wish to make a deal with the Half-Sage Families present. From this day forward, I hope the Five Great Families of Jing Kingdom will support me with all their strength. In return, I will offer thirty years of mining rights in certain regions of the Ten Cold Ancient Land, a thousand years of administrative rights over five cities in the Bloodmang Realm, and limited quantities of divine treasures at half price, including Half-Sage treasures."
Everyone present began breathing heavily, even the well-informed family heads and the elders of the Sacred Academy.
At any time and in any place, weapons, armor, and mechanical devices were among the foundations of an aristocratic family's strength, and the rich mineral deposits of the Ten Cold Ancient Land had always been strategic resources the Human Race fought to secure.
As for the Bloodmang Realm, it was an Ancient Land coveted by every aristocratic family. It resembled the Saint Origin Continent in almost every respect, and the Sacred Academy had already designated it as a technological reserve base and one of their future refuges.
The divine treasures Fang Yun had brought back from Burial Saint Valley made the Sage Aristocratic Clans green with envy. Even the Kong Family had very little of many of those treasures, or none at all.
Whether mineral resources, cities in the Bloodmang Realm, or divine treasures, all could greatly strengthen an aristocratic family.
These things could extend a family's longevity and determine its rise or fall.
For any aristocratic family, continued prosperity depended not on ordinary wealth such as gold, silver, and jewels, but on precisely what Fang Yun could provide.
However, Fang Yun was asking for no