Building a sect from scratch.

Seeing this group of Taiyin Sect disciples, whose boldness or cowardice was hard to discern, King Du Guang found it rather amusing and asked, "Points... what are they?"

The player spoke with increasing fluency, straightening his back as he answered, "It's something you exchange for using these NPs... cough, these scoundrels. You can get all sorts of rewards from our sect! Equipment, magic weapons, spirit artifacts—you can get them all! It's one of the main sources of income for our Taiyin Sect disciples!"

"I see,"

Du Guangwang nodded as if she understood, though she still couldn't quite understand some of the words spoken by the Taiyin Sect disciples. She could only understand that the soul in her hand, which could no longer be put back into its body, seemed very important to them, as it could be exchanged for magic treasures and spiritual artifacts.

But why can a guilty and useless demon cultivator be exchanged for magic treasures and spiritual artifacts worth a lot of spirit stones?
Du Guangwang was completely baffled—she had seen Fang Xianyu before and hadn't noticed any sins on him, which meant that Fang Xianyu hadn't taken these demon cultivators in to eat them or skin them and dismember them for use as spiritual materials.

why?
Despite his confusion, how could King Duguang, burdened by his "God of Duguang" image, possibly show that he didn't understand? Nor could he possibly take advantage of these juniors as they claimed!

So she used her long, sharp beak to peck at the feathers on her neck, pulled out a small twig, and threw it at the players, saying, "Since I've already used this demon cultivator, I'll compensate you with this. It's much stronger than ordinary magic weapons, and I think it's better than the magic weapons and spiritual artifacts you can exchange for!"

"Huh!? Huh!?"

Several players scrambled to catch the still-glowing twigs, then looked blankly at King Du Guang, only to see him nod slightly before flapping his wings and flying into the clouds, disappearing from sight.

One of the players curiously touched the small twig: "An NPC dropped this? What is this?"

The twigs are only the size of a palm, like miniature "saplings". Although the roots and stems are not visible, the branches and leaves are delicate and exquisite.

Another player, quick-witted, examined the twig and replied, "It says it's a [Jianmu Zizhu], but it doesn't seem special?"

Another player whispered, "Since the NPC said it's even better than magic weapons, it must be pretty powerful, right? Otherwise, I'll ask the experts in the group later; maybe I can sell it for a lot of money!"

"Hey, that's right! Let's take a screenshot and send it to the group! If it's really valuable, let's auction it off! We don't need it to be as amazing as that multi-million dollar flying boat, I'd be happy with a few tens of thousands!"

"Dream on! Tens of thousands!"

"Why not? The market price of magical items in this game is tens of thousands of RMB! Since the NPC said this is more valuable than ordinary magical items, it must be worth tens of thousands of RMB, right?"

"Hiss, that makes sense..."

……

Although the powerful demons on the side felt that the Taiyin Sect disciples were being quite rude by chattering in front of them as if no one else was around, they had gotten used to it over the past few days. So they ignored the players and discussed and divided up the tasks among themselves.

Then, a number of demon cultivators flew away in a flash, leaving only a few still standing in place.

General Silver was assigned to the next round of handover. General Yellow, who had been holding back for so long, immediately revealed his true form as soon as the other side left, lying back down on the ground, his eyelids half-open, feigning sleep. The players who had witnessed the whole thing immediately had their eyes light up, frantically shouting in the team chat: "Wow—it's Big Boobs!"

"I really want to touch it!"

"Wake up! This is an important NPC! Do you dare?"

"It's not impossible, but unless you're willing to take the risk of NPCs losing 100 points of your favorability, like Dog Brother did!"

"Well, then let's just forget about it..."

Everyone knows about Wang Ergou's story of losing 100 points of Huang Gong's favorability and being unable to receive Huang Gong's daily tasks anymore. With such a "bloody" example before them, no one wants to follow in his footsteps.

This limited-time battlefield lasted for two whole weeks before the various demon cultivators in the dungeon were finally captured piecemeal.

The number of people rescued who were kept as livestock reached several thousand—in fact, if you include those who were being "processed" and were practically dead, the number would be in the tens of thousands. However, their souls were so damaged that they could not be repaired, and their bodies were already dead, so there was really no need to rescue them.

Led by Wang Ergou, the Chang'an Sheyi took on this arduous task, gathering these humans in an open area closest to the mountains in Chang'an City, setting up a village, hiring some native NPCs, and getting a few more people from the project team to teach these poor humans how to adapt to social survival little by little—at least they all had to learn to speak.

At the same time, the Taiyin Sect finally formally established diplomatic relations with the Duguang Kingdom.

The governance model of Duguang Kingdom is very special. Although King Duguang has absolute power, most of the affairs of the country are handled by a group of demon cultivator generals through discussion and voting. King Duguang rarely appears in person.

Moreover, the hierarchical division of these demon cultivators is very crude. The great demons who are qualified to discuss matters and make decisions are only divided into two levels: general and lieutenant general. Of course, for the sake of sounding nice, people generally call the lieutenant general a general, but their power is not as great as that of a real general, their cultivation level is much lower, and they have no independent decision-making power.

King Du Guang had over thirty generals and over one hundred lieutenant generals under his command. Strictly speaking, these lieutenant generals were more like the "think tank" and errand runners of the decision-making center, responsible for not only making suggestions but also handling miscellaneous tasks.

The next level of management was based on specific positions, generally belonging to different generals and responsible for different tasks. For example, Lu Zhidong, who was convicted and taken away by King Duguang, was extremely skilled in weapon crafting. She used to be in charge of the keys to the treasure vault of the Duguang Kingdom, specifically managing the magical treasures and spiritual artifacts of King Duguang and the Duguang Kingdom. Otherwise, she would not have been able to craft magical treasures that could evade King Duguang's notice.

Although King Du Guang appeared at the discussion meeting regarding the establishment of diplomatic relations with the Taiyin Sect, he did not offer any opinions. The decision was made by the generals through discussion and a vote.

They won by a narrow margin, by just one vote.

Most demon cultivators held a dislike for humans, while the rest either neither disliked nor were close to them, or kept their distance. This vote was actually only cast because everyone had gleaned a glimpse of King Du Guang's attitude through the incident with Lu Zhi Dong, and thus reluctantly cast their votes in favor. If it had been before Lu Zhi Dong's affair was discovered, the vote would likely have been overwhelmingly against.

The only one who truly supported the establishment of diplomatic relations between Duguang Kingdom and Taiyin Sect was General Yin, who was always in a sleepy state! (End of Chapter)