In Wang Quan's eyes, the infighting between the New Method and the Orthodox Cultivators was growing ever fiercer.
But in the eyes of Qian Xiuyue and the others, whether it was the New Method or the Orthodox Cultivators, their conflicts did the alliance no real harm.
On the contrary, deliberately or otherwise, they even encouraged these conflicts.
"The two sides fighting each other will compete, trying to stand a head above the other in every respect."
"The more fiercely they fight, the more the entire alliance gains."
"As long as the Great Sun Alliance remains in our hands, all their struggles and all their achievements are merely sewing wedding clothes for us."
Wang Quan asked curiously, "Aren't you afraid the New-Method Cultivators will rise up and overthrow your control?"
Qian Xiuyue laughed. "Impossible."
"The New-Method Cultivators here at the Drowning Dao Lower Court can only cultivate as high as the Golden Core Realm."
"Elsewhere, New-Method Cultivators can only reach Golden Core at most, too."
"For New-Method Cultivators, there is no path beyond Golden Core."
Wang Quan smiled. "The world is vast, and there are many New-Method Cultivators."
"There will always be geniuses who can blaze a path forward for the New Method."
"Perhaps in some unnoticed corner, geniuses of the New Method have already opened up realms beyond Golden Core."
At these words, Qian Xiuyue shook with laughter like flowering branches trembling in the wind. "Geniuses?"
"What geniuses could emerge from a bunch of people unwilling even to study the Daoist Scriptures?"
"All the geniuses have entered orthodox cultivation."
Wang Quan shook his head. "There will always be some geniuses who enter the New Method system because of their backgrounds, the information available to them, and other reasons."
"There may not be many of them, but over the long years,