Chapter 1654: The Interests and Stance of the Great Yin-Yang Sword Realm

The many Dao Merging sword cultivators of the Great Yin-Yang Sword Realm were scattered across the four directions, distributed everywhere, leading groups of lower-ranked sword cultivators at Void Refinement and Soul Transformation, each flying toward a separate domain, setting up formations at locations such as mountain ranges, great rivers, and spiritual veins, carrying out various tasks in full swing.

The Great Sun Sword Progeny sat high at the center of the Heavenly Craft Star Chain World, comprehending his Gong Fa while supervising their work, occasionally splitting off a portion of his divine soul's computational power to resolve some difficult formation problems.

This Yin-Yang Locking Heaven Grand Formation was a true near-immortal grade formation.

Although it was an already-refined Ban Cheng Pin formation that only needed to be implanted and installed, and although the difficulty had been specifically reduced in many areas, it was still extremely obscure, and certain parts of the formation's calculations were beyond what the Dao Merging Divine Monarchs could handle.

In the distant starry sky, two low-profile Dao Merging Divine Monarchs flew over from afar; judging by their magic power, they did not belong to the Great Yin-Yang Sword Realm, nor were they sword cultivators — by all rights, in a place where sword cultivators were everywhere, they should have been in extreme danger.

One must understand that although the Great Yin-Yang Sword Realm spoke of the righteous path, that "righteous path" was only their own internal one.

For outsiders, generally speaking, if they were beaten to death or slain in a sword duel, as long as they were not from an allied Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong, there would usually be no punishment.

Two law cultivators, walking alone into a crowd of sword cultivators — it was no different from walking along the banks of the Yellow Spring River.

However, at this moment, every single Dao Merging sword cultivator stared straight ahead, not a single gaze falling on these two unfamiliar Dao Merging law cultivators, hurrying off into the distance, unwilling to waste any time.

"Greetings, Little Martial Uncle!"

"Congratulations to Little Martial Uncle on slaying the Dao Progeny of the Immortal Artifact Sect in formation, your Dao path advancing yet further!"

Han Lin and the Great Love Divine Monarch passed through unimpeded and arrived before the blue-robed youth, bowing deeply.

At this moment, both of them took a deep breath in their hearts.

The Great Sun Sword Progeny was simply too powerful.

When he stood upon a battlefield, he naturally and rightfully declared himself the absolute sovereign of that battlefield — what exploration, what life-and-death struggles to seize opportunities, none of these things existed any longer once he descended.

He only needed to take them away step by step.

Now, the only thing that made their Dao path uncertain was the other's attitude.

"Greetings to the two Dao friends,"

"My agreement with the two Dao friends will not change."

Jiang Ding opened his eyes.

He did not play coy or stall over matters the other party was deeply concerned about, and at the first moment made his stance clear.

"Little Martial Uncle's righteousness is exalted!"

Han Lin and the Great Love Divine Monarch were overjoyed.

They had known it!

This one's credibility was truly excellent — he had never gone back on his word, and today was indeed no exception.

"However, there is one matter I need to inform the two Dao friends of."

"This is an unexpected variable."

Jiang Ding continued: "For certain reasons, I now need to consider

the interests and stance of the Great Yin-Yang Sword Realm — the two Dao friends may understand this, yes?"

The Great Yin-Yang Sword Realm truly had not let down the Great Sun Sword Progeny.

The Great Sun Sword Progeny, naturally, would absolutely never let down the Great Yin-Yang Sword Realm either.

This principle was not some grand ideal, not some promise for countless years hence — it began right here at one's feet, starting from every small matter, even down to the interests and stance of a single spirit stone.

One who cannot sweep a single room will find it hard to sweep the world clean.

"The interests and stance of the Great Yin-Yang Sword Realm…"

Han Lin and the Great Love Divine Monarch fell silent.

A great sect has a great sect's interests — this, they naturally knew; they were only somewhat unwilling, because this opportunity was truly too enormous.

Still, they could only accept it.

In fact, in the Cultivation World this was already an anomaly — a loose cultivator who could negotiate terms and reason with a Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong, this could only happen with the Great Sun Sword Progeny.

"We understand."

"Little Martial Uncle."

Han Lin let out a sigh.

He did not pretend to be indifferent, but spoke plainly — there was a foundation of trust between the two sides.

"Very well."

Jiang Ding nodded slightly: "Next, the two of you are to go together with Xuan Water Divine Monarch, Xuan Fire Divine Monarch, Yang Iron Divine Monarch, and Tian Yin Divine Monarch to conduct an investigation and assessment — that is, to assess exactly what this opportunity is like."

Tian Yin Divine Monarch — the most outstanding Dao Merging Divine Monarch of the Pure Yin lineage on this battlefield.

"There are mainly two points."

Jiang Ding continued.

"First, if this opportunity were to be discovered, collected, and utilized by the Great Yin-Yang Sword Realm without the two of you — if the Great Yin-Yang Sword Realm could still discover, collect, and utilize this opportunity within a hundred thousand years without the two of you — then only one-tenth belongs to us."

"Of this one-tenth, I will not take a single cent, and will give it all to you to divide equally."

One-tenth!

Divided equally, that was half a tenth per person!

Han Lin's face showed a look of pain as if cut by a blade.

This was a great Dao opportunity for advancing to the Heavenly Human realm!

And now there was only half a tenth!

"If without the two of you, this opportunity cannot be discovered, collected, and utilized by the Great Yin-Yang Sword Realm within a hundred thousand years, then three-tenths of it belongs to the Great Yin-Yang Sword Realm; of the remaining seven-tenths, three-tenths belong to me, and four-tenths will be given to you to divide equally."

"What do the two Dao friends think?"

Jiang Ding said calmly.

As the price for slightly going against his promise, he gave up one-tenth instead of the original equal split — this was the compensation given to these two Dao friends.

The interests of the Great Yin-Yang Sword Realm had to be guaranteed — this was the right of the victor; everything on this world cluster belonged in full, by legal principle, to the Great Yin-Yang Sword Realm.

If it were a hostile stance, of

Then there is no need to worry about any legal principles; just fight your way through.

But since they are not on opposing sides, they must act according to legal principles.

Forty percent—this is the reward for these two technical talents; without them, the Great Yin-Yang Sword Realm could not handle this opportunity.

If that is indeed the case.

Whether this handling aligns with morality is uncertain, but it aligns with his Dao heart; that is enough.

"Then we shall listen to what the Junior Uncle says!"

"The two of us have no objections."

Han Lin took a deep breath.

In fact, there was no other choice.

In his heart, he was unwilling, even angry.

But objectively speaking, he could understand the Great Sun Sword Disciple.

If the sect's interests cannot even be guaranteed, how can one conduct oneself?

The Great Love Divine Lord had always been extremely respectful, humble, and terrified, never showing any hostility; he seemed far better than Han Lin.

"Then go."

"Go and complete this assessment report; decide based on facts and allocate the upcoming shares."

Jiang Ding waved his hand and handed each of them a temporary Sun Sword Qi.

This served as both proof of identity and protection; otherwise, sword cultivators of the Great Yin-Yang Sword Realm might clash with them. These sword cultivators of the Immortal Sect, though appearing extremely humble before the Great Sun Sword Disciple, were actually always arrogant and looked down on external cultivators of the same realm.

"Sword Disciple,"

A short while later, Ming Chong Guang Zi, Tianyin Divine Lord, Xuan Yin Xuan Shui Divine Lord, and others arrived here through the teleportation array and respectfully bowed.

"You will handle this matter."

"Be objective; do not bring your own Ji De Xiang Fa. I only need information on this matter, what this opportunity is, and so on. I do not need you to tell me how things should be done."

Jiang Ding warned slightly.

"Yes!"

The many Dao-Integration sword cultivators glanced disdainfully at these two loose cultivators before respectfully agreeing.