The scene fell into a dead silence.
Then, one after another, people expressed their submission.
Everyone understood in their hearts that after this battle, the Azure Cloud Sect would dominate Ling Province!
Ling Province honored them together!
The first supreme sect to exclusively rule Ling Province.
The next day.
The news spread.
A single stone stirred up a thousand layers of waves!
In this battle, the experts of the various major forces in Ling Province were almost entirely wiped out.
The three overlord-level forces took the lead in declaring that all members who took part in the great battle would be expelled from their sects.
Although this was just a formality.
After all, the people had already turned to ashes.
But they still sent people to scatter their ashes!
Then, they took out eighty percent of their sect's resources and sent them to the Azure Cloud Sect.
They submitted to the Azure Cloud Sect, acknowledging it as the overlord of Ling Province.
These were still the major forces with some foundation.
Some top-tier forces, upon receiving news of the defeat, feared retaliation from the Azure Cloud Sect.
They directly abandoned their buildings, leaving behind empty shells and lost fortunes.
The various major forces reshuffled. Those sects that had not participated successively annexed the weaker forces.
And they handed over all the resources they had annexed to the Azure Cloud Sect in exchange for protection.
One after another, newly rising sects sprang up like bamboo shoots after a rain.
Mystic Moon City.
"My ten thousand spirit stones!"
"Damn those major forces, you truly deserve to die!"
"I actually trusted you so much!"
In front of the casino.
Many people held their heads and cried, their cries heart-wrenching!
No other reason.
They had all bet on the major forces to win and lost everything.
They cried to heaven, but heaven didn't answer; they cried to earth, but earth didn't respond.
"I'm rich, I'm rich!"
Only one person on the scene laughed heartily.
It was the old fellow who had bet everything on the left.
He had made a fortune!
A gamble for a small jade token could win him the top prize.
Tonight, he could go and enjoy himself.
The news spread wider and wider, like a butterfly with long wings, gradually spreading to the various major provinces of the Eastern Region.
Tyrant Sky City.
Heavenly Mystery Pavilion.
"What are you doing!"
"You've rebelled!"
"Do you know where this is?"
"This is the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion! A branch of the Central Region's transcendent force! Do you want to die?"
"Screw your mother!"
A burly man rushed over and kicked the speaking man flying.
"What is the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion?"
"Now, Ling Province belongs to the Azure Cloud Sect."
"These resources must be offered to the Supreme Sect. If we are fortunate, we may earn a place as humble servant disciples or perhaps even step into the ranks as outer disciples."
"Brothers, grab your weapons and rob them!"
Heavenly Martial City.
"Alas! The rumors misled me!"
"Which idiot said the Lin family would be destroyed and the Azure Cloud Sect would be destroyed? Stand out for me!"
The current Lin family could be said to have soared to the sky in one step.
Although the Lin Family's overall strength was not remarkable, as an affiliated force of the Azure Cloud Sect, they stood second only to the sect itself and reigned above all others in Ling Province!
"It was the rumors that misled my Li family!"
"Otherwise, if I had led my clan to stand on the Azure Cloud Sect's side, wouldn't we be directly on the path to success now!"
"Get real."
"Just giving you a few words, and you're really putting on airs?"
"Your Li family? The Lin family is at least a top-tier force and could hold out for a while."
"Your Li family is just a second-rate family. What would you have done going over there? Gone to your death?"
"With a sneeze from any of the former major forces, your Li family would have been wiped out."
Azure Cloud Sect.
["Congratulations, Host, for completing the stage mission: 'Famed Throughout Ling Province.' Do you wish to claim the rewards?"]
["Main mission 'Famed Throughout the Eastern Region' completed 2/10. Please continue your efforts, Host. Massive rewards will be issued upon mission completion."]
"This mission has stages?"
"System, claim the rewards."
Inside the Azure Cloud Hall, Feng Qingyang sat in the main seat, examining the system interface.
["Rewards claimed successfully."]
["Congratulations, Host, for obtaining five Silver Summoning Cards."]
["Congratulations, Host, for obtaining the Azure Cloud Warship."]
Silver Summoning Card: Can summon beings from the Spirit Transformation Realm to the Manifestation Saint Realm.
Azure Cloud Warship: Exclusive warship of the Azure Cloud Sect, travels tens of thousands of miles in an instant, can withstand attacks from the Manifestation Saint Realm, and can fire a light cannon after charging (spirit stone charging), with power equivalent to a full-force strike from a Saint.
Good stuff!
He hadn't expected the system rewards this time to give Feng Qingyang another surprise.
The Summoning Cards went without saying.
But this Azure Cloud Warship was truly a treasure! Just imagine piloting such a majestic warship into battle, and then blasting the enemy into smithereens with one shot. What a spectacular scene that would be!
As for needing spirit stones to charge? Sorry, but the Azure Cloud Sect's current greatest abundance was spirit stones.
"Master, the newly built storage rooms are full again!"
Shi Hao was very helpless. Every few minutes, forces would arrive pulling several large carts.
Each delivery was ten large carts, each loaded like a sack.
Damn it! Were resources free? They were sending them over so frantically.
In just half a day today, five storage rooms had been rebuilt.
He had never dreamed that there would be a day when he would be troubled by having too many resources...
"Accept the spirit stones."
"Return the rest of the small gifts."
"Return all the martial techniques and cultivation methods."
"Or just throw them away. These are the things our Azure Cloud Sect has the least shortage of."
"Alright, Master."
Shi Hao went to collect resources again, looking miserable.
Feng Qingyang then looked towards the Lin family members in the main hall.
"In this great battle, even though your Lin family's strength was vastly inferior, you firmly stood on the side of the Azure Cloud Sect. Very good!"
In this dog-eat-dog world of cultivation, how many forces could do that?
Not stabbing you in the back or kicking you when you're down would already be considered good.
"Sect Master, this is all that our Lin family should do."
"As an affiliated force, when the main sect is in trouble, even if we are tens of thousands of miles apart, even if it means mutual destruction, our Lin family will not retreat half a step."
"Aren't you afraid of death?" Feng Qingyang stared into the eyes of the Lin family members.
One had to know that in the situation at that time, the Lin family was like an egg hitting a rock.
"Though ten thousand people stand in my way, I will go!"
"Good! Very good!"
"As long as my Azure Cloud Sect stands, your Lin family will exist for ten thousand generations!"
What Lin Zhan didn't know was how important his words were. Ten thousand years later, looking back, he would be filled with endless gratitude.
Of course, that was a story for later.
"Lin Bai, take your father to the Technique Hall to select some cultivation methods and martial techniques. Then, seek out your eldest senior brother and retrieve a hall's worth of resources."
"Go."
The Lin family's strength was still too weak. They needed to strengthen themselves quickly to keep up with the Azure Cloud Sect's pace.
If you ask how to quickly increase strength.
Don't ask, the answer is to throw money and resources at it.
(And cheat.)
"Yes, Master," Lin Bai nodded respectfully.
"Thank you, Sect Master."
"By the way, Sect Master, I have another request."
Lin Zhan, who had just turned around to leave, turned back again.
"Could we build a city a hundred miles below the Azure Cloud Sect?"
"A city?"
What a good idea! Why hadn't he thought of that?
Major forces all had their own exclusive cities, and each one was famous throughout the world, entrenched and absorbing resources from all directions.
Countless geniuses would also come attracted by the name, laying a good foundation for recruiting disciples.
"Yes, that's a good idea."
"Let's call it Azure Cloud City. You can take any resources you need from the sect. I will instruct the elders to coordinate with you on this matter."
If they weren't going to build, they wouldn't. But if they were going to build, they had to build the best one.
Coupled with the fact that the spiritual energy here was much richer than the outside world, given time, Azure Cloud City would definitely become the number one giant city in the Eastern Region, even the entire continent.