Yes.
There were only a few things that could, without affecting the world's Great Dao,
successfully pique Xu Tong's interest.
Usually, just two or three.
For instance, gossip about some Sage, or tax evasion by an enormous power like the Buddhist Order.
Situations like these could earn Xu Tong quite a few bonus points.
According to the Heavenly Dao's rules,
if Xu Tong arranged for Zhao Gongming and the other cultivators under him in the Zixiao Palace Tax Bureau to uncover the taxes those major powers had evaded over the years,
then, under the rules,
any cultivator or faction that violated this law would be sentenced to pay a fine exceeding five times the original illicit proceeds.
In all likelihood, for worlds that had worked so hard over those years, as long as they had participated in tax evasion,
that amounted to roughly 70% of their total income!
Meanwhile, 2% of that 70% fine would, through legitimate procedures, pass into the hands of Xu Tong, who had proposed and approved the law and served as its highest enforcer.
Take this action against the Buddhist Order, for example.
On the surface, in terms of long-term gains,
the winner was the Demon Tribe, which had been the first to charge into the Buddhist Order Great World and plunder its resources without any official backing.
After all, by killing Saint Zhunti and forcing him to be reborn, they had earned themselves over ten thousand years of debt.
They had obtained the most up-to-date intelligence network in the entire Primordial World.
The moment they learned that Saint Jieyin, because the Buddhist Order's brazen tax evasion had grown so extensive that it infringed on the interests of the other Sages,
had been set upon by a crowd of Sages,
as a wise man and the