"A sect stronger than yours will want you to pay tribute. A sect equal to yours will want to seize your territory. The world is this chaotic, this cruel. One mistake, and the lives of the entire sect will be lost!"
At this point, Ren Yanyu paused.
Big fish ate little fish; the strong devoured the weak. This was far too normal in the cultivation world. Unless the Breakthrough Army Sect one day produced a Void Refinement cultivator, it could only then be said to possess some foundation.
"And second-rate sects and lineages equal to the Pure Yang Hall are like us and the Dragon-Seizing Sect. At every moment, they fight over cultivation resources and scheme over how to destroy one another.
Some of those struggles can be laid out in the open, with direct slaughter and plunder. Others, constrained and balanced by first-rate sects, resort to other methods of seizure.
Second-rate sects such as the Pure Yang Hall possess far broader territories. If Nascent Soul cultivators like us flew from one side of the area under their jurisdiction to the other, even without sleep or rest, it might take several years..."
Hearing this, Li Yan repeatedly clicked his tongue inwardly. He had long known how vast the Immortal-Spirit Realm was, but the territory governed by a single second-rate sect was so immense that even the top sects of the lower realm could not compare.
Yet such second-rate sects, already colossal behemoths, were merely a drop in the ocean within the Immortal-Spirit Realm.
There were also some reasons Li Yan did not know. The larger a sect was, the broader the territory it controlled, but that did not necessarily mean it would govern more cultivation sects or lineages beneath it.
Usually, they would only allot part of their territory for