Variables, Part One

There was a vast, heaven-cleaving gulf between the Scene Level and the Dao Inquiry realm.

In truth, when he had fought Heaven's Will Blade, he had been inferior in destructive power. The only reason he had won in one stroke was because he had caught the other party off guard, coupled with Yellow Ape True Lord's Golden Talisman restrictions at the time.

Looking back now, he still felt a faint lingering fear. If he had been even slightly careless and failed to thoroughly crush Heaven's Will Blade, then once it adapted to his rhythm and used a Golden Core cultivator's formidable recovery ability to heal its injuries, he might have been the one fleeing in utter disarray.

"Additionally, Your Highness will receive a fixed monthly resource quota worth one thousand spirit jade. It can be exchanged for different types of goods according to your needs," the Grand Steward explained.

"Also, since Your Highness is an expert of the Array Talisman Dao, the Array Talisman Hall is freely open to you. You may peruse materials of any level as you please."

"I understand..." Lin Xin nodded, his heart deeply shaken. Worthy indeed of a great sect of the Central Prefecture. These resources and forces allocated to him alone would not have been inferior to an ordinary mid-sized sect in the Southern Prefecture. They amounted to roughly one-quarter of the Pine Forest Sword Sect's strength back then.

This was the foundation of a great Central Prefecture sect!

After completing the handover, the Grand Steward departed directly.

He left more than sixteen hundred people alone with Lin Xin.

Looking at the vast black mass of people spread across the steps below, Lin Xin saw no shortage among them whose auras were steady and powerful. Every one of them, at the weakest, had been