A Win-Win Situation

Ye Li quietly listened to everything.

Even though An Lingzhen's tone had not fluctuated much from beginning to end, he could clearly hear a trace of gritted-teeth resentment in it.

He then asked, "Does no one deal with this?"

"It's not that no one deals with it at all." An Lingzhen shook her head and said:

"The Myriad Laws Celestial Domain where the Jade Mist Sect is located is an extremely important gathering place for humankind within the Chaos Star Sea. It contains countless starfields."

"But precisely because of that, so long as trouble does not arise within the starfields directly governed by those superpowers, they usually do not pay excessive attention to it."

"Even for the grave crime of colluding with the Alien Race, a crime condemned by everyone in the Star Sea, the aftermath merely ended with half of Valley of the Heavenly Maidens' core upper echelon committing suicide to atone for their sins."

"And even that result was only achieved because the Star Sea Merchant Alliance stepped in to exert pressure."

"So that was how it was."

Ye Li nodded slightly, gaining a preliminary understanding of the rules by which the Chaos Star Sea operated.

"What happens within someone's territory is handled by that someone," he said.

"Beyond their territory, so long as no one crosses the bottom line by doing something like colluding with the Alien Race, it is every man for himself—the weak are prey to the strong."

"That is more or less the idea." An Lingzhen nodded in agreement.

Then, as though she had remembered something, she pondered for a moment before adding:

"However, as far as I know, there were exceptions long ago."

"I heard that a major power once explicitly decreed that, within the reach of its influence, even those in high