Meng Chen's gaze stretched far into the distance as he nodded lightly.
"If the Five Elements Immortal Domain goes to war, our Purple Qi Cultivation Kingdom would have no power to fight back. There would be no need for them to go through such trouble. We should treat this with an even heart and face the gap between our nation and the vast Immortal Domain. That is the long-term course."
"Hehe." The old man smiled. "One who commands must see far ahead, keep a broad heart, and remember that the road is long."
"Yes," Meng Chen said.
"Yes!"
Solemn, perfectly uniform voices also rose from behind them.
Yet the exchange for a thousand Purple Qi Giant Beasts still made them secretly click their tongues. These beasts fed on stars and all living things. Once unmatched throughout the Purple Qi Star Territory, they had only been subdued after the Purple Qi Ancestor crossed the sea of stars, slew Purple Qi Beasts to prove his Dao, and founded the nation.
Later, these violent giant beasts had been exiled by the empire to patrol the starry sky. They were utterly like scalding-hot potatoes—impossible to keep.
They did not recognize masters, either. Even if sent to conquer Star Domains, all they left behind was a starry sky in ruins, making the effort meaningless. Trading them away was excellent!
As for those so-called rare resources, they were actually quite common within the Star Domains of the Purple Qi Cultivation Empire. Gathering them merely took time, and manpower was the one thing they lacked least.
This trade could be called an enormous profit!
Meanwhile, the Five Elements Immortal Domain had provided low-grade Immortal Spirit Stone mines... because the Imperial Clan of the Purple Qi Cultivation Kingdom had seen those stones and their eyes had immediately lit