The Heaven-shattering: I and Wu Shi compete for the throne

Chapter 518 The Unsolvable Problem of Interests
As for Huo Lin'er, the Golden Heavenly Maiden, and the Dragon Girl, Li Daoming believed that their choices were due to their father.

Although he didn't devote all his energy to deduction, many things couldn't be hidden from him. For example, two years ago, the Qilin Ancient Emperor, the Wanlong Ancient Emperor, the Golden Ancient Emperor, and the Blood Phoenix Ancient Emperor each sparsed a wisp of their minds and descended to the Big Dipper Ancient Star to meet their respective children.

Although he couldn't deduce what they talked about, there was no one else but them who could have changed their minds and made them make that choice.

At this moment, the result was deduced. Li Daoming's lips twitched slightly, and he was speechless. He didn't know how to evaluate the actions of the various forces.

After a moment's thought, Li Daoming gently shook his head and did not intervene, because even if he did, he could not change anything.

Why would those forces do this? Because of profit, profit they cannot refuse.

The Wuji Holy Court commands the heavens and the earth, and all forces in the universe dare not disobey it. It possesses countless treasure troves of resources.

For example, the six thousand chaotic heavens contain countless natural treasures and rare materials, as well as various secret realms and treasure lands created by the powerful beings of the Boundless Holy Court and naturally formed ones, which have also nurtured and produced a massive amount of resources.

However, managing these valuable lands and ensuring a stable output of abundant resources is not easy and requires a large workforce.

However, the Wuji Holy Court simply doesn't have that many people, and the cultivators of the Wuji Holy Court are extremely powerful. Letting them manage these places would be a complete waste of their talents.

But we can't just leave it unattended, so what should we do?
It's very simple. Just allocate them to forces outside of the Wuji Holy Court and let them manage them. The Wuji Holy Court is only responsible for supervision and collecting resources, which saves both time and effort.

Although doing so would mean the Wuji Holy Court would acquire fewer cultivation resources, the Wuji Holy Court already possesses far too many cultivation resources and has too few cultivators. The resources accumulated over countless years are inexhaustible, so naturally they wouldn't care about losing a little bit.

Moreover, these resources were given to various forces, enabling them to cultivate more saints, who would then go to the Chaos Heavens to work for the Boundless Holy Court.

Regardless, the Boundless Holy Court has not lost out!
Furthermore, don't underestimate this management power; it's a rare and coveted position for many forces, including those in the underworld.

Those precious lands are rich in the essence of heaven and earth, and are mostly excellent places for cultivation, where cultivation is twice as effective with half the effort.

Furthermore, managing these treasure lands also yields cultivation resources and contribution points. These contribution points can be exchanged for various treasures in the Boundless Holy Court, which is a considerable income for any faction.

Without this income, many forces closely related to the Wuji Holy Court would see their resources reduced by nearly half.

Moreover, this is only because those powerful figures above the Saint level can operate the great array in the Chaos Heavens, transforming chaotic energy to earn cultivation resources; otherwise, the reduction would be more than half.

The Wuji Holy Court distributed the management rights of many resource areas, and since it was a distribution, some would definitely receive more and some less.

As for who has more and who has fewer, it depends on which faction has more members who have joined the Wuji Holy Court and whose cultivation level is higher.

Furthermore, Li Daoming was always generous to the women who were willing to serve him. Women of equal cultivation level received twice as much as others. This was no exception in the allocation of management rights over these resources.

However, while the management rights of these resource areas are important, they are not what the leaders of many forces value most. What they truly desire is a spot to accompany the Heavenly Emperor into the strange world when he opens the passage between the two realms next time.

Entering the strange world would extend their lifespan by nearly a hundred times, granting them hundreds of thousands or even millions of years. In such a long period, even if they simply endure the passage of time, they would likely advance further and gain even more lifespan. Moreover, entering the strange world would allow them to continue following in the footsteps of the Heavenly Emperor, and perhaps in the future, they could even fight their way into the Immortal Realm and become immortals alongside him.

Such benefits are enough to drive most living beings mad, willing to pay any price for them, and they are no exception.

However, the Wuji Holy Court does not open its quotas to the public. Only members of the Wuji Holy Court have a certain number of places based on their cultivation level, and each person has only a limited number of places.

The decision to control the number of people from the Wuji Holy Court who could accompany them into the strange world, and not to open the quota to the public, was made by Li Daoming.

His decision wasn't based on the difficulty of allowing too many people to enter the strange world. In fact, with his power, it wouldn't be difficult for him to bring in even a large number of people.

But he still wants to control the number of slots because he wants to use them to control many forces in the universe.

They were made to voluntarily become subordinate forces of the Wuji Holy Court, willingly devote all their efforts to cultivating peerless geniuses, and send these geniuses to the Wuji Holy Court, continuously providing fresh blood for the Wuji Holy Court.

Only in this way can the Boundless Holy Court become stronger and more prosperous.

The cultivators of the Boundless Holy Court possess formidable strength under its tutelage, and with the Boundless Holy Court as their backer, they naturally have the power to decide the limited number of places available to them.

Humans are inherently selfish, and they will naturally prioritize allocating the spots to their close relatives, such as parents, spouses, and children. Only then will others have a chance to compete for the remaining spots, making the number of spots even smaller.

In this situation, in order to obtain more spots and give themselves a greater chance of success, they would travel to the strange world.

The leaders of many forces not only do their utmost to cultivate prodigies to join the Wuji Holy Court, but also rack their brains to get those celestial daughters to voluntarily serve the Heavenly Emperor.

In this way, not only will the number of available spots double, but it will also prevent them from giving all the spots to their offspring after marriage.

For the higher-ups of those powerful forces, using various methods to get those female prodigies to voluntarily serve the Heavenly Emperor requires no effort from them, yet they can obtain rewards they cannot refuse. Naturally, they will spare no effort to do so.

Even if Li Daoming intervenes, it will most likely be useless, because no matter how powerful he is, he cannot change the minds of the high-ranking members of many forces.

Unless there are no huge benefits involved, such as him not giving more female cultivators who volunteer to serve him, including cultivation resources and quotas for entering strange worlds, and treating them the same as other cultivators of the Boundless Holy Court, it would be completely useless.

Even if they did that, it might not be of any use, because the higher-ups of many factions were unwilling to see them marry other people, lest their management power and status be lost. It would be safest for them to serve the Heavenly Emperor.

Moreover, Li Daoming would certainly not allow female cultivators willing to serve him to be in the same situation as everyone else.

He doubled everything they could get, firstly because he was always generous to his own people, and those willing to become his women were definitely his own people; secondly, he liked beautiful women, but he wouldn't stay with any of them, which was also a form of compensation for them.

So there's simply no solution!
(End of this chapter)