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Chapter 1525: Chapter 809: Facing the Challenge

A day later, the Ten Thousand Beast Sect welcomed a grand event as two Great Venerables from the Lianhua Temple and Sun Concealing Sect arrived with official letters of surrender from the two sects.

Grandmaster Hu and several Great Cultivators initially wanted Li Shiming to participate in this grand occasion, but Li Shiming refused.

He had no interest in power or fame. With his alchemy skills, he could acquire reputation and wealth at any time, without needing to control a power for personal gain.

Ignoring the hustle and bustle outside, he remained in his own dwelling, calmly cultivating.

A portion of his mind, through the IBMz15 drone satellite system, was monitoring the Dongqi Continent.

The drone satellite system had covered most of the Dongqi Continent today, especially the mountain gates of the Ten Thousand Beast Sect and the original Taichu Sect.

Now, the mountain gate of the Taichu Sect had been renamed the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect Tai Chu Branch. Although the surface had been cleared of Thunder Energy residues, it would still take a long time to utilize the spiritual veins to rebuild the spirit fields.

Currently, a large number of Spirit Plant Masters gathered from various places were busy on the surface of the Tai Chu Branch.

Apart from some Spirit Plant Masters left in the Grotto Heaven from the Taichu Sect, there were also Spirit Plant Masters requested from the Lianhua Temple and Sun Concealing Sect.

Fortunately, the two sects handed over a large number of resource points, so there were plenty of excess Spirit Plant Masters.

Though Li Shiming didn’t pay much attention to the current situation, Grandmaster Hu still frequently sent him updates through the Identity Jade Disc.

Lianhua Temple and Sun Concealing Sect had constricted their spheres of influence, giving up more than half of their territory to the Ten Thousand Beast Sect.

The Ten Thousand Beast Sect nearly controlled over three-quarters of the resource points on the Dongqi Continent, and even possessed two large sect mountain gates.

Especially on the side of the Tai Chu Branch, after Li Shiming recognized the core of the Taichu Cave Heaven, he obtained permissions from the Artifact Spirit.

Through the Artifact Spirit, he re-released the isolated Grotto Heaven space surrounding the Tai Chu Branch, allowing only Cultivators from the Ten Thousand Beast Sect to enter the thousand-mile range.

Li Shiming did not stay at the Tai Chu Branch but returned to the Ten Thousand Beast Sect.

He was the strongest combat power of the Ten Thousand Beast Sect; even if he did not attend the surrender ceremony of the two sects, he had to be within the Ten Thousand Beast Sect to provide sufficient deterrence to the two sects.

Of course, even if the two sects were more desperate, they wouldn’t dare to create the slightest conflict with the Ten Thousand Beast Sect after the Taichu Sect’s annihilation.

If the Ten Thousand Beast Sect hadn’t yet truly matured and lacked enough Great Cultivators to suppress expanding factions, it would have already asked Li Shiming to destroy the two sects.

Now, in Li Shiming’s dwelling, he was enjoying the Spiritual Energy supply from the allocation given to two Great Cultivators. Although an increase in Spiritual Energy didn’t affect him much, it was enough to show the importance the Ten Thousand Beast Sect placed on him.

He did not enter his Heavenly Person Cave Heaven; at least, until the major troubles were resolved, he needed to remain vigilant.

The representatives from the Lianhua Temple and Sun Concealing Sect completed the ceremony in humiliation. They knew that from now on, the two sects would gradually weaken, but compared to the fate of the Taichu Sect, this was already an excellent outcome.

After relinquishing vast territories and resource points, the resources for cultivators within Lianhua Temple and Sun Concealing Sect were insufficiently distributed; next, they could either seek resources from the ocean or disperse some of the cultivators.

Seeking resources from the ocean is extremely dangerous; even if a Great Cultivator were to plunder resources from the deep sea, it would face retaliation from Late Stage Fourth Grade spirit beasts in the ocean.

Moreover, the coastal resources of the Dongqi Continent are almost all controlled by the Ten Thousand Beast Sect.

This is because every cultivator of the Ten Thousand Beast Sect has its own Spiritual Pet. One cultivator is equivalent to the combat power of two, and the Spiritual Pet, as a spirit beast, is particularly suited for fighting the spirit beasts in the sea, allowing the Ten Thousand Beast Sect to continuously occupy coastal resources.

Even when the Ten Thousand Beast Sect was being suppressed, the other three sects couldn’t exploit coastal resources on a large scale like the Ten Thousand Beast Sect could.

Granted, if the coast were given to the three sects for hundreds or thousands of years, they might develop an effective way to battle spirit beasts.

Though the Lianhua Temple and Sun Concealing Sect have superpowers behind them, these superpowers do not intervene in internal strife within the Dongqi Continent involving other superpowers.

Only the annihilation of the Taichu Sect has left the attitude of its backing superpower unclear.

However, there is no need for excessive concern, as Li Shiming’s displayed strength is sufficient to make even superpowers cautious in their approach.

Once Li Shiming has fought against the Peak Great Cultivator, the Ten Thousand Beast Sect will truly secure the newly acquired territories on the Dongqi Continent without any superpowers daring to covet them.

At least, as long as Li Shiming hasn’t fallen, the Ten Thousand Beast Sect will be safe even if Li Shiming leaves the Dongqi Continent.

This is the power of top-tier combat strength. A force with top-tier combat strength can secure a territory matching that strength.

However, since the ten thousand beast sect’s foundation is too shallow, the acquired territories still require Li Shiming’s reputation to suppress for the time being. Once the Ten Thousand Beast Sect’s Great Cultivators reach a certain level, its own strength will be sufficient to enforce the control of its territories.

As time passed day by day, Li Shiming did not enter deep cultivation, as the efficiency of cultivating the ’Heavenly Human Technique’ wasn’t high.

But the advantage is that he could exit the cultivation state at any time and engage in battle.