Douluo's ice devil Yuhao

Chapter 556 The Choice of the Nine Treasures Glazed Sect
The newly built Mingdou City at the junction of the three kingdoms of Sun, Moon, Star, and Heavenly Soul has become the focus of attention of all forces on the continent. There is no doubt that this city will completely change the direction of the continent's situation.

However, ever since the three empires officially announced the news, all the major forces have only been waiting for news without taking any concrete actions.

These sects were a group of forces with much stronger vitality than the royal families of various countries. Although they did not have as many powerful people as the royal families, if history had followed its original course and a full-scale war had broken out, these sects would have been the ones that would have been able to preserve more power in the end.

They don't need to send all their followers to the battlefield to participate in the fighting. They just need to wait for the opportunity and make the most favorable choice at the right time to protect themselves. No matter who is the final winner of the war, they will not take the initiative to settle accounts with them.

The great sects that can be passed down for thousands of years all have their own wisdom in dealing with the world. Facing the emerging big city of Mingdou City, everyone is watching. It is separated from Shrek City by east and west, and it is obviously challenging the position of Shrek City as the center of the continent.

What these big sects need to think about is whether to make timely investments in Mingdou City to gain more benefits for themselves in the future.

There is not much information about this city yet. They currently believe that it is just a pure and complex political product that cannot be measured by ordinary standards.

But just when the major forces were still waiting and watching, one force spoke out in a very high-profile manner.

It was the continent’s number one auxiliary sect, the Nine Treasures Glazed Sect.

The Jiubao Liuli Sect and Mingdetang simultaneously announced that they had reached a strategic partnership and would send disciples to Mingdou City to set up branch sects. A large chamber of commerce under the sect would also move its headquarters to Mingdou City.

Sect Master Ning Chen publicly expressed his optimism about the trade in soul guides between the Sun-Moon Empire and the three major empires. Within the sect, he also required future young disciples to get involved in the study and use of soul guides.

One stone stirs up a thousand ripples, and the public announcement of the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect caused shock among the other forces.

Under the three major forces of Mingde Hall, Shrek Academy, and Body Sect, apart from the royal families of various countries, the next highest level is the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect. Their attitude can be said to have shaken the ideas of many forces.

The Nine Treasures Glazed Sect is definitely not a bunch of fools. They support the construction of Mingdou City so much, which shows that there are rich benefits to be gained. Since the Nine Treasures Glazed Sect has already ended, many other major forces that are waiting and watching will naturally participate and agree.

The Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect’s statement was also a stab in the back to Shrek Academy.

Everyone knows that the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect has a close relationship with Shrek Academy. But now the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect is actually cooperating with Shrek Academy’s rival in a high-profile manner. Doesn’t this mean that they are not optimistic about the future of Shrek Academy?

Upon hearing this, Shrek Academy quickly condemned the sect, criticizing it for being greedy and forgiving of principles, and for cooperating with its former enemy, the Sun-Moon Empire, so quickly for the sake of profit.

The response from the Jiubao Liuli Sect was very smooth. They first stated that this was a purely commercial act, then said that it was responding to the royal call to deepen friendship with the Sun-Moon Empire, and finally mentioned that they would not neglect the original cooperation with Shrek.

Shrek Academy had no reason to interfere with the practices of the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect, so it had to swallow its anger.

After Ning Tian returned to Shrek Academy from the sect, Elder Xuan and others naturally asked her many times why the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect did this.

She always evaded the question by saying that she didn't know and had no right to interfere with the decision of the sect master and elders. Seeing that they couldn't get any information out of them, Xuan Lao and the others had to give up. Even if they went to the Nine Treasures Glazed Sect to visit in person, it would probably be useless.

After Ning Tian returned to the inner courtyard, his feelings towards Shrek Academy became more complicated.

Born into a large sect and being the young master of a sect, she had a strong sense of purpose since she decided to follow her father's arrangement and come to Shrek Academy.

No one in the world knows how to cultivate auxiliary martial spirits better than the Nine Treasures Glazed Sect. If she stays in the sect, she will learn no worse than going to Shrek. If that's the case, why does she still come to Shrek?

The answer is simple, it's for connections. The Nine Treasures Glazed Sect is fundamentally different from other sects. The successor cannot be selected based on the level of strength, so it can only be determined by how much resources each has.

Coming to Shrek Academy, you can make friends with more descendants of other major sects, royal families, and powerful officials. If they gain power in the future, they can become Ning Tian's helper and reduce obstacles for her to successfully become the sect leader.

But in return, Ning Tian also has to provide support when they need it. The resource exchange method is the meaning of Shrek Academy to her.

If he could meet some civilian-born students in the academy, such as Jiang Nannan, he could go a step further and try to recruit them into the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect and give them some investment. If they could successfully break through the eighth and ninth rings and become Ning Tian's confidant, his position as the sect leader would be more stable.

Compared with other students, in Ning Tian’s heart, no matter how much the academy has given her, her position as the head of the sect will never be shaken.

However, after all, I have lived and studied in Shrek for so many years, it is impossible to say that I have no feelings for this place.

Ning Tian sighed quietly and stopped worrying. Anyway, it would not take him many years to complete all the tasks and assessments and graduate from the inner school, so he could just spend the last days of his campus life with Wu Feng.

She kept thinking about her father's instructions to her, and her heart was filled with excitement.

Can I... really evolve my martial soul like Ning Rongrong's ancestor ten thousand years ago and become a real Nine Treasures Glazed Tower?

But, can he really break through to the ninth level soul engineer?

A hint of hesitation flashed through Ning Tian's mind.

She has been facing a bottleneck in soul guides for a long time. Moreover, a true ninth-level soul guide needs to personally design and develop his own soul guide, and outsiders can't give much help. Can she really break through this limit?
Ning Tian shook his head, and a hint of decisiveness and determination flashed in his eyes.

The Nine Treasures Glazed Sect's remarks attracted the attention of the world's leaders.

Someone secretly investigated and found out that Sect Master Ning Chen was collecting natural treasures filled with the vitality of heaven and earth in his own name, and he was extremely generous. I wonder if this has any connection with the recent actions of the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect.

The conversation between the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect and Shrek Academy soon reached the ears of Huo Yuhao who had returned to Mingdu, and he couldn't help but laugh.

Shrek couldn't stop the Nine Treasures Glazed Sect from cooperating with the Sun Moon Empire, but it had to do so. There was no other way. The foundation of Shrek Academy might be the influence accumulated over thousands of years.

Now that the situation on the mainland has been broken, in the short term, it will still be one of the top forces on the mainland under the huge historical inertia. But if people find that its influence is just so-so and no longer hold it on the altar, then over time, it will fall on its own.

The Nine Treasures Glazed Sect was just the beginning. In fact, these sects did not need Shrek Academy, they just needed a place with enough influence to accumulate resources for themselves, and Shrek Academy just happened to have it.

On the contrary, it was Shrek that needed them, and once these sects found alternatives with sufficient influence, the demanding Shrek Academy would no longer be necessary.

"In the next few years, we'll just have to wait and see."

Huo Yuhao was thinking about his next move.

Clean up the underground forces in Mingdu, reorganize the Sun and Moon Court, plan Mingdou City and Mingdou Academy, and find time to go to the Yin-Yang Eyes of Ice and Fire to find the magic herb for the Jiubao Liuli Sect. It seems that I will be very busy in the future.