Li Chen told the two of them, "Now you understand, don't you? I'm determined to take the Central Sea and Cloud Province. Although we've mastered Void Creation and infinite energy, the corresponding spiritual essence materials and extraordinary technologies are still indispensable if we want to use them efficiently."
"I love peace by nature, because this mechanism of proliferation alone can produce everything we need. Unfortunately, that process cannot escape the influence of spiritual essence materials, much less do without Outer Dao cultivators."
"You love peace..." Lin Xi was so furious he laughed.
Li Chen said, "According to incomplete statistics, over eighty percent of the immortal mountains and blessed lands and immortal spiritual root veins in the Myriad Heavens Universe are in the Earthly Immortal Continent. Of the remaining twenty percent, another eighty percent are in the Righteous Qi Continent ruled by the Great Qian Dynasty. The Eastern Victory Continent gets only the final four percent!"
"The situation is slightly better for the spirit peak blessed lands, pseudo-spirit peaks, and the like that depend on them, but the Earthly Immortal Continent still holds nearly half all to itself. Tell me, what should we do about that?"
As Lin Xi listened to Li Chen speak with such easy assurance, an inexplicable unease suddenly rose deep within him. He instinctively argued, "Those were all opened up by the sages and Great Powers of old, riding crude carts and wearing ragged clothes as they blazed the trail!"
Li Chen neither agreed nor disagreed. "Let's grant that for now. But immortal mountains and blessed lands belong to the virtuous, and today, great virtue rests with me."
Xiao Linyue sneered and rebuked him, "A bandit's words!"
Li Chen said, "Speaking of bandits, who has been bullying and exploiting the Puppet Dao all this time? But I