"Once the fighting is over, territory, spirit veins, mineral deposits, and magic treasures will be divided according to battle merits! My Demon Lotus Sect will not take everything for itself!"
"And-"
"As a Great Jin marquis born in the Gouwu Sea, there are things I can fight for on everyone's behalf! There are connections at the very top that I can call upon."
"As long as we band together, twist ourselves into a single rope, and make the Gou Wu Whale Army's name known, we won't be so helpless when Great Jin next goes to war and deploys its forces!"
"The Immortal Dynasty's stipends, medicinal pills, cultivation techniques, even Nascent Soul Formation Pills, High-Grade Magic Treasures, Heaven Grade Cultivation Techniques, and more!"
With every term he spoke, the eyes of many cultivators below shone a little brighter.
These were all tangible benefits!
Previously, only powers like the Upper Eight Cave Spirit Islands could lay a finger on them.
How could Golden Core and Pseudo-Nascent Soul sects like theirs, or those barely qualifying as Dharma Nascent Soul sects, ever have such an opportunity? They were lucky just to hold on to their own little patches of land.
Yet now, Qing Chen had forcibly laid a road to the heavens before them!
Seeing how tempted everyone below looked, Qing Chen nodded in satisfaction. It was Mad Shark True Lord's earlier secret voice transmission that had changed some of his ideas.
Xiao Canglan, you could kick me out of Qiongzhou in the Lingnan Circuit, but here in the Gouwu Sea, you don't have the final say.
If I could build one Qiongzhou, I can build a mighty Gou Wu Province too! My own Gou Wu Province!
"Today was meant to be my Nascent Soul Ceremony. By custom, all of you ought to present