The elder in charge announced in a ringing voice, "Our sect's policy on vassals is as follows."
"All those designated as vassals shall be strategic allies of our sect and enjoy the right to protection. This protection shall cover their governance of spirit peak blessed lands and the inheritance of their Dao traditions, legal traditions, and bloodlines..."
"The obligations of vassal powers shall include paying tribute and taxes..."
Everyone had already studied these provisions, and they nodded inwardly as they listened.
In fact, most of them had been adapted from the provisions of the City-State Alliance over on the Eastern Victory Continent. The relationship between the Golden Sun Gate and these vassal powers was roughly equivalent to that between the Creation Sect and its affiliated sects and aristocratic clans.
Through tier upon tier of feudal enfeoffment, they jointly ruled vast worlds and stretches of starry space spanning hundreds of millions of miles.
It was worth mentioning that, in this world, those who possessed the mighty power of divine abilities could not be treated as ordinary individuals. Rather, they had to be regarded as nations, as civilizations.
The scope of these alliances was therefore extraordinarily broad, almost equivalent to a grand union of civilizations and races.
The elder in charge continued, "Next, I will explain the details of our sect's aid loans. What may be loaned is not limited to manpower, material resources, various cultivation provisions and assets, or knowledge that can be converted into goods of equivalent value."
"However, there is one point to note. The tribute pledged by vassal powers may take the form of money or grain, with either credited toward the amount due, but loan repayments must be made in spirit stones..."
At this, the future peak masters, valley masters, island masters, and others finally showed faint