Chapter 951.2: No Intention to Raise a Dog, Hoping to Find Someone Like Me - Part 2
Aunt Gan knew when to advance and when to retreat. Seeing that Chen Chao was declining, she did not press further.
Chen Chao thought for a moment and said, “After Inviting Moon Mountain is established, you can get in touch with Morning Dew Sect and see if you can form an alliance. No one can say for sure about the future, but at least in the next ten years, this will benefit Inviting Moon Mountain without harm.”
Ten years later, Morning Dew Sect would likely rise rapidly. Whether it would then pull far ahead of others was hard to say.
After all, both sects were itinerant cultivator sects.
In some aspects, they had direct competitive interests.
Li Tang thought for a moment and did not immediately say yes or no, only saying she would discuss it and later give the Lord Warden Commander an answer.
Chen Chao shook his head, looked at the newly appointed mountain lord, and said seriously, “Mountain Lord Li, you must understand one thing. Inviting Moon Mountain is Inviting Moon Mountain’s own sect. The court has helped in the past, and will continue to help when possible, but that does not mean that from now on, Inviting Moon Mountain must act according to the imperial court’s will. What this official asks for is a fellow path, not for Inviting Moon Mountain to attach itself to the court, where everything is decided by the court. If it were like that, would it really be a good thing for Inviting Moon Mountain?” “In other words, if things were like that, wouldn’t Mountain Lord Li and the many cultivators on the mountain feel a knot in their hearts? Living under someone else’s roof, not even having the final say over your own territory, what’s the point of cultivation then? Isn’t that no different from being a dog?”
Chen Chao spoke very bluntly. Although many sects in the foreign lands might indeed be willing to act as dogs of Great Liang, Great Liang itself had no intention of raising dogs. Raising dogs was the least reliable, once Great Liang declined, those so-called dogs might very well turn around and bite it.
What Great Liang sought was to be the common ruler of the world, but also to have the world submit willingly.