Chapter 324: The Foundation toward the Civilize World

The Li Clan patriarch, noticing the questioning look from the Jin Clan patriarch, was about to continue. But then he remembered Gu Tianshan, so he looked at Gu Tianshan for approval.

Gu Tianshan, of course, nodded in approval, despite the exact opposite happening in his mind. He wanted to scream and tell the man to stop looking at him for approval!

With a nod of approval from Gu Tianshan, the Li Clan patriarch continued.

"As you all may know, we could easily subdue the threats and ambitions of Demonic Path cultivators because they didn’t bother to act righteous or pretend to be something they were not."

"The peaceful Demonic Path cultivators we mostly saw in the Thousand Treasure Pavilion were only bound by the rules of the powerful Sky-Severing Demon Valley, as that city was their territory, and now it has become connected to the Underworld Palace as well. No one with a brain would be stupid enough to provoke them by breaking the rules meant to keep the peace of the city."

"But..." He paused, raising a single finger.

"Those Demonic Path cultivators who are outside of the city are not bound by such rules, so it falls to us, the righteous path cultivators, to restrain their ambition and greed!" the Li Clan patriarch said righteously.

The Jin Clan patriarch also nodded in agreement. This was the orthodox belief of righteous path cultivators and anyone associated with the righteous path.

’Yeah! That’s common sense, but how is this supposed to relate to our current topic? Stop acting mysterious already!’

Gu Tianshan screamed in his mind.

"Well... I understand that, but what does this have to do with Young Master Wei’s intentions?" the Jin Clan patriarch voiced his thoughts.

’Good job, Jin Chang! I also wanted to know!’

Gu Tianshan secretly gave the Jin Clan patriarch a thumbs-up.

"I’m about to get to that. Be patient," the Li Clan patriarch said, then continued.

"As you know, there are people in the righteous path who act hypocritically, the type who act righteous on the surface while dealing in dirty business behind the scenes. These people are hard to deal with. To deal with righteous path cultivators like them, we need excuses and pretenses, and we also need evidence! They are harder to deal with than average Demonic Path cultivators."

The Jin Clan patriarch nodded repeatedly. This was also one of the problems faced by righteous path cultivators themselves.

"But... what do they fear the most?" the Li Clan patriarch asked before pausing, allowing the listeners to think.

"It is the exposure of their darkness."

This time, it was Gu Tianshan who revealed the answer.

He had figured out all the clues up to this point. As someone who dealt with schemes and conspiracies, and with his former patriarch, Gu Tianhe, who was now an eunuch, he knew exactly what kind of thing hypocrites feared the most.

The Li Clan patriarch nodded.

"It is as Brother Gu says."

Now, the Li Clan patriarch was calling Gu Tianshan "Brother Gu." He had decided that a wise man such as Gu Tianshan was worth befriending, even though they had once been in conflict over their interests.

"Thus... this brings us to our current mission and the tool Young Master Wei gave us! The Broadcasting Orb is able to broadcast our programs to the masses, and according to the manual Young Master Wei gave us, it can even coexist with the current network that Young Master Wei and the Thousand Treasure Pavilion have built. It will be like we have our own brand of channel."

"For example, you, Brother Jin. You are the founder of the Golden Cauldron Sect, and you specialize in herbs and pills. You could run a channel that specializes in giving people pointers about them. And I, as the Li Clan, am the clan that holds authority in Azure River Capital City, so our channel would be best suited to providing information about the city, its regulations, and even some entertainment along the way."

"And for you, Brother Gu, you specialize in caravan travel and exploration, and you even have your own flying ark yard. You would be more specialized in the field of exploration than us."

"Of course, what I’ve said is just an outline that I have in my mind right now. Our programs may intersect and compete in influence and popularity. But we need to have a program that Young Master Wei intended for us to have!"

The Li Clan patriarch raised one finger to signify its importance.

"Huh? What kind of program?" the Jin Clan patriarch asked.

The Li Clan patriarch looked at Gu Tianshan once again.

Gu Tianshan nodded.

"You are very good. You’ve caught Young Master Wei’s intentions by more than ninety percent. I have nothing to add."

Gu Tianshan acted like a big brother and nodded in approval in response. Right now, he already had the full picture of how to proceed.

The Li Clan patriarch smiled and finally revealed the answer.

"It’s the news program. We need to propagate the news to the masses, revealing the dark secrets of the hypocritical righteous path to the public."

"We all know that they value their reputation very much because by acting righteous, they gain the right to act under the banner of righteousness. If their dark deeds were to be revealed, they would lose all of their standing."

"By revealing them, making them fear their own shadows, and causing them to develop a crisis over having their dark deeds exposed, we will accomplish Young Master Wei’s mission as he intended," the Li Clan patriarch concluded.

The Jin Clan patriarch now understood it fully. He also thought that this must be Young Master Wei’s intention, but then he thought of one problem.

"But... information is mostly monopolized by the Information Guild right now. If we start doing the news, this will directly conflict with the clans that have Information Guilds as their main business. Especially the Dark Guilds that accept both information and assassination commissions. Those are not people we can reason with," said the Jin Clan patriarch.

After the Jin Clan patriarch raised this point, it was now the Li Clan patriarch’s turn to contemplate.

But this time, the one who shed light on the matter was Gu Tianshan.

"Oh, there’s no need to worry about that, Brother Jin. For the normal Information Guilds, we can offer them the chance to become pioneers and join us. We can share some of the profits with them, and they will immediately follow the trend."

"As for the Dark Guilds..." he said with a cold smile.

"If they dare to defy Young Master Wei, it will be their funeral. Once the people who want to curry favor with Young Master Wei know that this is his intention, they will all come to us. Even if those Dark Guilds are mysterious and elusive, if the masses hunt them down and their backers abandon them, would they still dare to cause trouble?"

Gu Tianshan said this with confidence.

As someone who meddled in schemes and conspiracies, he knew fully well how to deal with those types of people.

"Brother Gu is right!" the Li Clan patriarch chimed in.

"We are now standing on a ship that is sailing toward the future. If someone can’t catch up to us, that’s their loss. They can only wait to be left behind by the new era!"

The other two patriarchs also agreed with this statement, as if only a few days ago they hadn’t been among the people who objected to the changes Wei Chen had brought about because of the Cultivation Realm Equalizer Portable Array, which made cultivation useless in front of law enforcers equipped with this array.

Thus, this marked the day when the three most influential channels and investigative news agencies were founded. They would go on to expose many dark deeds committed by the righteous path sects while also bringing news that benefited the people, whether it was warnings about an approaching beast tide or information about impending disasters.

This day marked the beginning of a foundation that would go on to save more than billions of lives.

— Meanwhile - Immortal Realm —

Inside the Fate Weaving Sovereign’s Immortal Cave, atop the array that bound together countless threads of fate, was a special formation that transformed those fates into a unique kind of power, which the Fate Weaving Sovereign used to heal themselves.

This kind of array twisted the fate of countless mortals and used them as fuel. It could be said that this array had caused the deaths of countless people, whether directly or indirectly.

Someone who should have died survived. The twisted fate of a bandit who should have been purged was altered, allowing him to triumph over the authority pursuing him. Someone who should have died miraculously survived, while a scholar died agonizingly, as if he had been bitten by a viper while sitting in his own study.

These twisted fates became the source of power that the array converted into Fate Power, which was then used to heal its master.