Daoist Qingyue and Xuan Lingzi trembled inwardly and answered in unison, "Yes!"
"Second-"
Qing Chen looked at them. "From now on, besides obeying me completely, you must also obey two other people."
Both froze.
"Who?"
"My master-True Lord Budong. And my eldest disciple-the Longevity Devil Lord."
Qing Chen's tone was indifferent. "If you show them the slightest disrespect, you know the consequences."
The two kowtowed repeatedly. "We understand! We would never dare!"
"Third, stop using the Southern Heavenly Archipelago as Rogue Cultivator City's base."
Daoist Qingyue and Xuan Lingzi froze again. He no longer wanted it?
Abandon such a vast archipelago just like that? That would be far too wasteful.
Seeing their confusion, Qing Chen said flatly, "This place is too close to Great Jin's Southeastern Circuit. That old bastard Yan Tong could return at any moment. Keeping it would only make us a target. Sometimes, you have to let things go. When the time comes, give it to the Blissful Union Tower as a thank-you gift, and let them hold off the Southeastern Circuit."
Understanding dawned on them, and they nodded repeatedly. Your fist is bigger, anyway. Whatever you say goes. We just have to do it.
"Then... where should we go? With a name like Rogue Cultivator City, we need a large stretch of sea as our foundation," Daoist Nun Qingyue asked cautiously.
"The Star Sea Region."
Qing Chen waved a hand, and a gleam of spiritual light condensed into a sea chart of the Star Sea Region in midair.
He pointed to a stretch of sea along its edge. "You may not know this, but in the ring where Jiaogu Island lies, a stretch of sea roughly the size of twenty archipelagos is about to be opened up."
"In fact, by my estimate, excluding the ten archipelagos