After that conversation, the mood grew rather subdued, and neither of them spoke.
At last, Mo Xie sighed and broke the silence.
"Ugh, how boring. I've suddenly lost interest in the World Academy Competition."
The moment he said that, Zu Xingyi grew anxious and hurried to talk him out of it.
"Hey, Little Evil, don't do anything rash. Sure, there are plenty of unwritten rules, but once you join the National Team, the benefits will be beyond anything you can imagine."
"Plenty of people were only Intermediate Mages before they joined the National Team, but afterward, their cultivation shot up. Within a year, they'd overtaken many of their peers."
"Besides, didn't you establish some sort of organization? When someone from a prominent family gets a good placement in the World Academy Competition, their family receives more resources and attention too. The same would apply to you."
"The World Academy Competition isn't just a contest between prominent families and clans. It's a contest between nations. The better a country places, the more resources it receives over the next four years."
"So I believe that as long as you join the National Team, our Dragon Country can definitely reclaim the championship!"
He said all of that in one breath, his voice full of confidence in Mo Xie, as though they were certain to win the championship if he participated.
After listening to all that, the only thing Mo Xie cared about was the extra resources his organizations would receive. That was what he needed most right now.
He had the Evil Heaven Pavilion and Bird City under his control. Even without those resources, Chenxi's funding alone was enough to sustain them, but if they had support from the higher-ups in the future, wouldn't they soar to new heights?
"That's certainly worth considering."