anwhile at the Luotian Sect Hall, Sect Leader Duan Mu Rui sat on the main seat uneasily. There were 24 human immortals sitting in both rows next to him, all of them exuding a majestically powerful aura.
The bunch of human immortals was discussing how should they handle the arrested Dynasty mbers. As Sect Leader, Duan Mu Riu had been listening quietly. He sat with his back straight, not daring to interrupt from the beginning until the end.
Although he was the Luotian Sect Leader, among the 24 people who were present, his grandmaster ranked the last in seniority. Most of them were even great-grandmasters.
As the people were in the zone of discussion, a ssenger burst into the hall all of a sudden.
"Sect Leader, all patriarchs... There’s an ergency coming from the city!"
"We’ll talk about it when the eting is over!" Duan Mu Rui frowned and waved him away.
"Wait." The old, white-bearded Taoist devotee sitting on Duan Mu Rui’s left lifted his head to look at the ssenger and turned to Duan Mu Rui. "Sect Leader, let him speak since it’s an ergency. We won’t have any results for our discussion anyti soon anyway."
"You’re right, Patriarch." Duan Mu Rui nodded imdiately.
The white-bearded Taoist devotee holding a horsetail whisk was the most senior among the patriarchs. He was the old Sect Leader who had decided to seal the door tens of thousands year ago. Including the ti he sealed himself, he was close to 13,000 years old.
Duan Mu Rui knew that the old Taoist devotee had no right to bypass him to command the ssenger just like that. Instead, he was showing his respect to Duan Mu Rui as the Sect Leader.
"What’s the ergency? Please, speak."
"A piece of news has co from the governnt residence. Gigantic gullies have appeared in several locations early in the morning. They’ve found eight gullies so far which have spread across the entire continent." The ssenger disciple provided a summary of the news. "Also, there’s a massive amount of demons crawling out of the gullies. Looking at the current situation, they’re all mortal transformation-level demons."
The entire hall fell into dead silence as soon as the ssenger reported that.
Besides Duan Mu Rui, even all of the patriarchs, including the old, white-bearded Taoist devotee were stunned.
"Have you confird the authenticity of the news?" The old Taoist devotee was the first to snap out of his shock and asked imdiately while frowning.
"I’ve confird it. More than one governnt residence has found out about this. Moreover, the Wuchen Sect, the Xiaoyao Sect, and the other sects heard about this before we did. There are rumors saying that they’re opening their doors," said the ssenger respectfully.
The hall fell into a dead stillness once again.
The old Taoist devotee could no longer consider Duan Mu Rui’s position and he said to the ssenger directly, "Contact the governnt residence now. We want to know more about it."
The ssenger stepped forward imdiately and contacted the governnt residence after bringing out a communication crystal stone.
After talking to the governnt residence, the people from the Luotian Sect looked horrified. The old, white-bearded Taoist devotee looked at Duan Mu Rui after asking the ssenger to leave. He seed to be hesitating if he should ask him to leave too.
Noticing his great-grandmaster’s hesitation, Duan Mu Rui stood up on his own and said with cupped hands, "I’ll make a move."
"No need. Stay. You need to know about this sooner or later," sighed the white-bearded old Taoist devotee softly and he signaled Duan Mu Rui to stay in the end.
"It must be those outsiders who brought this disaster upon us!" A middle-aged bearded Taoist priest was the first to speak, unable to hold it back any longer. "If not for them, the thunder wouldn’t have appeared! We should ask them to leave!"
It was clear that the Luotian Sect found out that organizations such as Dynasty had co from outside.
"Indeed, it’s the outsiders who have brought this, but why are you complaining now?" The fat Taoist priest sitting next to him said while shaking his head, "Even if we were to ask them to leave now, would the phenonon disappear and the disaster be averted?"
"Now that the disaster’s here, it’s unwise to declare war with the outsiders. I think it’ll be better for us to fight this with them." An old Taoist devotee with white hair disagreed too. "There are quite a number of them, after all. There are over 5,000 people while most of them are complete ascendance-levels and so of them even have an ability on par with human immortals."
"These people are greedy! They dared to fight our sect for resources." The bearded Taoist devotee was resolute in his objection. "Aren’t we afraid that they’ll stab us in the back if we were to collaborate with them?!"
"I’ve got the sa concern too." The silver-haired old Taoist devotee sitting on Duan Mu Rui’s right could not help but speak up while frowning. He had his silver hair knotted in a bun with a black hairpin.
"These outsiders co to our world for resources. Looking at their behavior, they don’t seem to be treating us as their human partners but rely survivors of ancient tis. To them, our ti has long ended, so our dying would be sothing acceptable to them. Even if we co to an agreent, as soon as the disaster cos at full force, they can exit our world anyti they want and let us die."
"No matter what, I don’t trust those outsiders." The silver-haired old Taoist devotee smacked the ground with the walking stick in his hand.
"Junior Brother, I understand your concern," addressed the old, white-bearded Taoist devotee with the horsetail whisk finally while stroking his beard. "But there are dozens of different organizations coming from outside. We shouldn’t generalize them. Also, about the trust issue, there’s a way to solve it."
All of them had their eyes on the white-bearded old Taoist devotee when he spoke sagely.
"All they want are resources, so that’s what we’ll give them then," said the old Taoist devotee while smiling lightly as he stroked his beard. "We’ll give them as much as the effort they put in."
"We actually don’t need mutual trust. All we need is an employnt relationship. I believe these people will definitely accept being employed. After all, they’re here for the resources."
"I think Junior Uncle’s idea’s great." The white-haired old Taoist devotee nodded to show agreent. "An employnt is more stable than an alliance. Moreover, we’re the employer who holds the power."
"This seems to be the only workable solution at the mont." The fat Taoist priest nodded lightly.
"I think we can discuss this employnt with the other sects and share the resources for the employnt. If we share resources, each sect will only have to contribute a small part of it," added the white-bearded old Taoist devotee.
The few of them who disagreed beca silent.
"Since there are no better suggestions, let’s vote now." The white-bearded old Taoist devotee glanced at everyone. "Those who agree with the employnt, please raise your hand."
Including Duan Mu Rui, among 25 of them, only six of them did not raise their hands.
"19 to 6. The voting results are very clear," announced the old Taoist devotee while smiling, "So, it’s set!"
"Senior Brother!" However, the old silver-haired man sitting across him spoke again, "Since you said that, should we release the people from Dynasty, return the resources to them and get them to fight for us?"
"Of course not." The old man stood up with a smile. "Since they’re prisoners, they’ll get a different treatnt naturally."
"Give them a slave imprint and train them to be our battle slaves! Show the outsiders that our sect isn’t to be underestimated!"
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