If the sect doesn't accept geniuses, they will become giants once they leave?

Chapter 356 People Always Live in Someone’s Shadow

The news that if Xiao Yun was made a marquis, Emperor Yu would use the power of the Dao Pillar to help Xiao Yun break through the fusion stage quickly spread, and even Li Yanmo heard about it.

"Is that pillar really that powerful?"

Lily Jiang, who was drinking medicinal tea, rolled her eyes.

"That's not nonsense. The entire cultivation system of the universe is based on the Dao Pillar. As the owner of the Dao Pillar, the cultivators of Dayu's core team cultivate countless times faster than the cultivators of the sect. How do you think Zhao Qian can reach the Fusion Stage before she's 200 years old?"

Li Yanmo frowned subconsciously as he pondered for a moment. "For such a good thing, I'm afraid Dayu will have to pay a high price."

"That's natural. The Dao Sect originally existed to share the cost, but it ended up becoming a million-member sect alliance, leaving Dayu Emperor State to bear the cost alone." Lily Jiang put down her teacup, fumbled for her pipe, and started smoking. "As a place where national destiny converges, Emperor State has actually been hollowed out."

"As a large state, it only has a few spiritual mines left."

"It's so serious!" Li Yanmo was shocked. He originally just came here to chat, but he didn't expect to talk about such explosive news.

He still remembered Mu Mei's description of the spiritual mine.

Nutrients that nourish the world.

In such a huge state like Dizhou, there are only a few spiritual mines left?
"Why are the millions of sects in your sect so eager to make a move?" Lily Jiang shook her head leisurely. "The contemporary Emperor Yu and the princes and princesses are all the most powerful generation, but Dayu's core team is in a period of transition. Logically speaking, those noble sons should be in the Nascent Soul stage on average at this time, instead of still practicing Qi."

"They have enough talent, but they deliberately slow down their cultivation so as not to put too much of a burden on the Imperial State."

Nuyao at the Foundation Building Platform nodded as if she had remembered something. "That makes sense. Even if there were a demon star intrusion, with the foundation of the Great Continent, a situation as extreme as the Demon Mountain Range shouldn't have occurred."

"Imperial State is probably Meizhou after the disease broke out!"

Li Yanmo's eyes bulged, "Then what should we do? By the way, why are you so calm!?"

Lily Jiang’s face was full of weirdness, “Didn’t you just give 900 billion pieces of top-grade spirit stones to Dayu? Do you know how many top-grade spirit ores can be made from 900 billion pieces of top-grade spirit stones?”

"Uh……"

Mu Mei inside the foundation-building platform whispered a reminder, "Nine hundred."

"Nine hundred...?"

"It's impossible for any major state to have nine hundred top-grade spiritual mines at its peak," Lily Jiang exhaled a smoke ring, "If these nine hundred spiritual mines were consumed, the Imperial State would probably be overnourished."

"So the story about Dayu planning to help your apprentice cultivate the Saint Bone when he is granted the title of Marquis must be true. Otherwise, there are too many resources and nowhere to use them."

Li Yanmo always felt something was strange, but after thinking about it, it didn't seem like a bad thing.

He had no way of getting rid of those top-grade spirit stones in the first place, so he could get rid of them and help Dayu survive at the same time, a perfect win-win situation. The only problem was that Dayu was being too honest and actually exchanging each top-grade spirit stone for the market value.

But this is only a minor problem, which can be solved by digging a few more holes.

Zhuozhou.

Shen Ziqing and Zhong Sanyuan had just negotiated a long-term business deal and were drinking tea in a teahouse when they happened to hear someone talking about Xiao Yun from Yanzhou.

Zhong Sanyuan couldn't help but sigh, "Five hundred years ago, my master often told me that people who were born in the same era as me were unlucky, and they were destined to live in my shadow."

"Two hundred years ago, my master changed his tune. The contemporary Emperor Yu is invincible in the world. It is not shameful for us, master and disciple, to live in the shadow of Emperor Yu and his son."

"Over the past few years, my master has often comforted me, saying that Xiao Yun and I aren't from the same generation. As the saying goes, the waves behind push the waves ahead, and it's not uncommon for the waves ahead to be washed away on the beach. Old folks like us should have been prepared to be eliminated by the times long ago."

"Anyway, there's no conflict between the Xinghe Three Transformations Sect and Dayu, and the Invincible Saint King's fist can't hit us."

Shen Ziqing raised his eyebrows and smiled, "Mr. Zhong wants to know how Tianxu Tower should deal with the Invincible Saint King?" "Cough - I thought I concealed it well," Zhong Sanyuan coughed awkwardly.

"Xiao Yun is also my master's apprentice."

Zhong Sanyuan was stunned with a strange expression.

Shen Ziqing's tone didn't sound like he was lying, but his response was so fast that it was hard to believe.

However, Zhong Sanyuan did not intend to ask too many questions to get to the bottom of the matter. It would be impolite to ask too many questions.

"As expected of Brother Li."

Just then, Dai Qianqiu came back. Seeing that Dai Qianqiu looked unnatural, Zhong Sanyuan and Shen Ziqing frowned.

"what happened?"

"Something went wrong. Besides us, there are others secretly taking over Zhuozhou's trade routes," Dai Qianqiu said, shocked. "They directly took over several of Zhuozhou's largest merchant groups and forced them to swallow up their subordinates."

Zhong Sanyuan raised his eyebrows, "What are their methods?"

"They're forcing people to buy and sell, and their methods are extremely brutal," Dai Qianqiu sighed helplessly. "Those big merchant groups all have cultivator backgrounds, and ordinary people can't possibly resist."

Dai Qianqiu paused and added, "It's not Yuanluo Sect."

Zhong Sanyuan's expression gradually darkened. "Dayu's bottom line is that we cannot openly attack mortals. We haven't concealed our actions. A first-rate sect isn't bold enough to cause trouble for us at this time."

Dai Qianqiu frowned and nodded.

In their view, this incident was simply a repeat of Yuanluozong's incident in Meizhou.

It would be fine if they could just establish a first-rate sect, but they dared to establish two super sects?
Isn’t this a bit too arrogant!

At this time, Shen Ziqing suddenly spoke up and put forward a different opinion.

"It's not necessarily that they're deliberately causing trouble for us. Maybe they just want to get a piece of the pie in Zhuozhou's construction. Their behavior that seems to be causing trouble now is simply because they're used to it. This is just the way they do things."

Dai Qianqiu and Zhong Sanyuan were both stunned, and coincidentally recalled what Shen Ziqing had said not long ago: "Many reincarnated immortals."

"Mr. Shen, do you mean that the subordinates of those reincarnated immortals are imitating us?" Dai Qianqiu's expression was serious.

If that were the case, the problem would be different.

Shen Ziqing nodded, "Nine out of ten. Anyone with a discerning eye should be able to see that the outcome of the Zhuozhou incident has already been decided. Now it's just a matter of sharing the benefits."

"Some people can't stand the fact that Dayu and Tianxu Tower have shared all the profits, so they're so eager to act and directly take down the largest merchant groups... I think they must have invested a lot in Zhuozhou."

Shen Ziqing curled the corners of his mouth.

"However, they really did me a big favor by doing this."

"You two, we don't need to pay attention. Even if we can't reach an agreement, we must show our sincerity to those mortal merchants. When they change their minds..."

Shen Ziqing's squinting eyes opened slightly, and his warm smile made Dai Qianqiu and Zhong Sanyuan's scalps tingle.

“Being able to think of us.”

(End of this chapter)