After all, to Dai Tianling at that moment, winning or losing this Five Gods Battle did not matter.
The competition had been publicly announced as a friendly contest with the Tang Sect's Sect Master. Dai Tianling cared even less about the condition that, after a victory, the total price quoted to the Tang Sect would rise by ten percent. The weapons they had bought from the Tang Sect in the past had never been cheap either.
He was not short of that little bit of money. The Tang Sect mostly converted the money into resources to take back with them, making it a business in which they always profited and never lost.
He did not care about that himself. Resources were what the Star Luo Empire truly had to offer now.
As far as Dai Tianling was concerned, certain people or organizations had already relayed word of this competition to the Sun Moon Federation. Whatever the federation's citizens thought of it, the Federation Parliament would certainly speculate about and respond to the Tang Sect's actions at such a sensitive time.
Then his objective would be achieved. With the Tang Sect and the Sun Moon Federation growing further apart, the Tang Sect would become isolated, and that situation would give the Star Luo Empire more bargaining chips.
The best outcome would be to bind the Tang Sect and the Star Luo Empire together, but Dai Tianling knew perfectly well that the chances were infinitesimal.
He had always known what the Tang Sect was doing within the Star Luo Empire. He had even helped bring the situation about, and every successive Star Luo Emperor had taken the same attitude.
The reason was simple: the Star Luo Empire's soul tool technology lagged too far behind. When facing the Sun Moon Federation across the