"Grandmaster Li, we truly cannot thank you enough. Without you, Cloud-Raising Immortal City would surely have been destroyed, and our sect would have perished!"
Several days later, within the Creation Secret Realm of the puppet world heavenly net, Lin Yuanji and several senior figures from Cloud-Raising Immortal City once again expressed their gratitude to Li Chen.
Their thanks were thoroughly sincere, but unfortunately, they had little tangible to offer. Cloud-Raising Immortal City was truly down on its luck in its present state. Having heard that Li Chen urgently needed temporal dao materials, they had merely brought a few portions as gifts.
Li Chen said, "There's no need to stand on ceremony. Coming to the front lines to help was a matter of importance to all Puppet Masters. The fate of your Sky City weighed on the hearts of countless Puppet Masters. Any Puppet Master with the means would never lightly allow it to fall."
Shen Longcheng said, "From what you said, it sounded as though you had a way to help repair the city. Is that true?"
By then, Shen Longcheng, Wu Fangdao, Pang Huo, and several other senior figures from the Creation Sect had also projected their divine senses into this place, accompanied by several Puppet Dao Master Artisans.
They, too, were quite curious. "Grandmaster Li, according to our calculations, a conservative estimate for repairing this city would be at least 1.8 quadrillion. The sect's finances are tight right now, and we can't readily allocate funds to Cloud-Raising Immortal City. What should we do?"
Li Chen replied with a smile, "It isn't actually that you can't allocate the funds. Rather, once you do, ownership will be unclear, and what follows will remain uncertain, correct?"
Lin Yuanji looked somewhat embarrassed at that.
The Creation Sect's senior figures had already approached