Over the next several days, the three Nascent Soul Great Cultivators visited various places by invitation, continuing their inspection of the secular nations and cultivation world around the Misty Wave Kingdom.
There, they witnessed the incense-burning customs and festival rites Li Ling had established among the ordinary people of the various islands.
With a few modifications, these things could become the faith of Mystic Heaven.
The garrison envoy system built around cultivation market wards could likewise be readily converted into a mechanism for selecting heavenly gods and earth deities.
As for the cultivation market wards and the various local powers, they undoubtedly upheld the fine tradition of the Four Seas Commerce Guild, using money to clear the way and bring stability to the cultivation world.
From there downward, Dao, heaven, earth, and humanity were linked layer by layer, forming a richly stratified, stable structure.
It encompassed deep control over everything from cultivation resources to talent and, finally, the allegiance of the people. It already possessed the foundations for governance under the authority of heaven and earth.
Because the population overseas was far smaller than that of the Mystic Continent, its achievements in this regard actually appeared even more impressive than Great Qian's.
However, this system was not without flaws.
First, the Incense Accumulation Sect held no actual authority over the established order. Li Ling was, in truth, a guest upon the seas, not their proprietor.
His roots here were not yet deep enough, nor had he been developing the region for very long.
The newly acquired Misty Wave Kingdom in the West Sea, in particular, was a model of money colonization and could not do without the support of the West Sea's local powers.
This rested on Li Ling's personal charisma and exceptional skill, rather than any genuinely deep foundations