Chapter 2078:
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Energy Group
- Melancholy lover
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- 2021-03-03 02:04:03
The Xuanyun Sect's achievements like today certainly did not rely on luck. People in the Xuanyun Sect have their own abilities. If they don't have this kind of abilities, what would they still mess with? Xuan Yunzong now knows that Li Cong has met Grigra. Many people in the upper ranks look down on Cao's firm. They think that Cao's firm is just a mere name. They got their own a few days ago. Plant life has been killed, but not all of the Xuanyun Sect are such self-proclaimed people, and they all understand that everything now is different from before. If the current society is the same as before, Their Xuanyun Sect can still give orders to the world. You must know that hundreds of thousands of years ago, the four major sects were on the same level as the four empires. Why are you now a powerful party and others can become the overlord of the world? It's the ability that others have but you don't. If something like this happens, you don't know how to change yourself. Instead, you are still living in your own history. It is a matter of course to be abandoned.
There are actually two opinions within Xuan Yunzong regarding Grigra’s coming to see Li Cong. Many people think that there is no need to pay much attention to this matter. Even if it’s Li Cong, can he help Grigra to fight Xuanyun? Zong, that is absolutely impossible, besides, even if he helps, how strong is the entire Cao family firm? Can you fight against Xuanyunzong? What can he do if he defeated a few empires? It can only be said that the turf of these four empires is too big, and there is no other defense method. However, for Xuanyun Sect, Li Cong's set of advantages is not of much use, so in the end, they still did not do much. On the contrary, some experts of Xuanyun Sect threatened Li Cong very much. These people are mainly the older diehards in the Xuanyun Sect. Every time they speak according to the rules or something, they are also some actual power holders. They stand still and have always lived in the Xuanyun Sect. In history, there is simply no initiative at all.
The other part is other ideas. In their opinion, it is absolutely impossible to do that. All these people were thinking about the terror force of Cao's House of Business. They also knew about it in the capital area of the Southern Empire. It is estimated that the enemy of Cao's House of Business did this thing, even if the tenth-level fighters destroyed it so badly. But in the end? It only took less than two months to build this place again. There is no waste of much manpower and material resources at all. Why is this? Because they have already mastered a set of effective methods, without this, it is probably impossible to do all of this. People’s brains are also very good at handling things. What about other things? That is the powerful strength shown by Li Cong. Looking at the rewards offered by others, it is estimated that the four major empires cannot offer such rewards. These people are selling their lives to the Cao’s merchants, rather than giving money to sell their lives. Many people say that if you have money, you can’t do everything. Li Cong taught them a good lesson. If you have money, you can do everything. It depends on whether you have that money and how much you have. If you have money, the price you set is inappropriate, naturally no one will want it. If you set the right price, no one will do it. Profit is the top priority. What about a tenth-level fighter? Isn’t the contradiction between Grigra and Xuanyun Sect because of the contradiction of money? If he has unlimited money, he can buy more treasures to send back. It is estimated that the people of Xuanyun Sect will not take this matter. Embarrassed him, but does he have so much money? What he doesn’t have, he says that it’s very easy for a tenth-level fighter to make money. This is true. Once you enter the Warcraft Mountains, you can have billions or even tens of billions of money, but the problem is that you have several trillions. Trillions of silver? What you don’t have, relying on your speed of making money, I don’t know how many years it will take to make so much money. There are small problems and big problems.
This part of the people’s suggestion is that the current Cao’s house is no longer a purely commercial organization. Some people in the four empires underestimated the Cao’s house, so they will fail now. If the people of the firm cooperate well, the final result will definitely not be what it is now. They can see and understand that this matter is already quite good, so they suggest that the elders of the Xuanyun Sect should be dispatched, at least An elder-level person went to see Li Cong and expressed the intention of cooperation between the two parties, so that Li Cong could feel their sincerity and would not cooperate with Grigra, so as to prevent Xuanyunzong’s efforts. It was in vain, but this proposal was strongly opposed by the elders. There are only ten elders in the Xuanyun Sect. Although there is one in the Southern Empire, it is not necessary to mobilize one just for this. The power structure within Xuanyun Sect is two gates. Zhu, here are the top ten elders, below are the top ten guards and ten guards, but most of the management matters are the elders, they all have the skills of the ninth-level pinnacle fighters, and they can become the tenth-level fighters. But the world is stuck on this line. I don’t know how many people there are. Most of them have no way to cross the past. That is this line. Too many people stay here. They stay here for the rest of their lives. Tenth-level fighters. There are only so few, but the ninth-level pinnacle warrior is really not a rare thing in Xuanyun Sect, it is really nothing to take out 35.
The two sides could not dispute over this issue, but in the end, both sides also gave in and let the youngest of the ten elders pass. This guy is also the disciple of the sect master, Xiao Chen, this guy is also the last genius selection battle. At the first place, he already had the high-level strength of a seventh-level fighter. At the beginning, there was another guy who was an eighth-level fighter, but the end result was that that guy was not his opponent at all, so he won easily. Now, these hundred years have passed. The young man at that time had already put on his beard. From the fact that he became the elder of the Xuanyun Sect, you can see that this guy is now a high-ranking ninth-level fighter, in the Xuanyun Sect. There are many ninth-level peak fighters, but why haven't they become elders? And he has become an elder. In addition to being the disciple of the sect master, another important reason is that this guy is an absolute genius. He has risen from a seventh-level fighter to a ninth-level fighter in a hundred years. There are no more than three people in the world. This guy will not necessarily reach a certain level in the future. Besides, he has another idea that the elder Grigra said just now is the best friend with him. . If you can get Li Cong's pill. Everything will be done after that.
Geniuses and geniuses are always together. This is the case with the three elders and ten elders of Xuanyun Sect. Both of them are disciples of the sect master, but one is a big disciple and the other is a little disciple. Usually when the master has something to do, this big apprentice teaches the young apprentice. So San Zhang Lao needs this medicine. The ten elders also tried their best to get this thing for him, but what is the Nine Resurrection Pill? That is something more difficult to make than the ginseng of the year, which the alchemist Xuanyunzong himself had. However, it is only possible to refine the third-grade pill, and the success rate is not very high. A copy of the nine-level resurrection pill is too expensive. If it is refined for this guy, it will not succeed even if it is fifty times. , So don’t think about asking this person to refine it. It’s a waste of things. However, the news that Cao’s family firm has such a pill that everyone knows later, but Cao’s family of business will easily sell this thing go? That is impossible. For all the people in the world, such things cannot be measured by silver. They also have a lot of treasures from the Xuanyun Sect, but few can exchange them. There are few and it’s impossible to take out. They wonder if these things can be exchanged for other things. They just haven’t prepared them all the time, so they didn’t ask anyone to talk to Li Cong. Now they have a standard. Of course, they had the opportunity to talk about Rigla's matter. This matter is not a joke. It is necessary to call the Ten Elders to talk about it.
Li Cong was not surprised at all when he received the post. In his opinion, this is the sect master of Xuanyun Sect and it’s okay to talk to him. He already has that strength now, the sect master of Xuanyun Sect. What's wrong, could it be better than some empire's emperors? This is impossible. In Li Cong's view, the master of Xuanyun Sect is not as good as an emperor. At least they control a huge empire. For Xuanyun Sect, their power lies in Li Cong's eyes. Li is really nothing. What he needs is some secular forces, not the so-called masters that Xuanyunzong fancy. The number of masters is small, and they are useless. It can be seen from a single data. The Xuanyun Sect has a huge industry in the four empires, the most important thing is a farmland. They have an average of tens of millions of acres of land in a province of the Northern Empire. According to the agricultural policy of the Northern Empire, each acre of land per year It can bring them about 450 wen, which is half a tael of silver. A province saves five million taels a year, but in the end they only receive three million taels of silver. Where else will the rest go? went? It's not that you have been greedy by those who do things. You have such a huge farmland, and you can't maximize his potential. What's the difference?
The ten elders of Xuanyun Sect usually handle some of the daily affairs of Xuanyun Sect. He is not very happy with these tasks, but there is no way he can not. Who is the guardian of Xuanyun Sect? I don’t do anything, it’s just practice exercises, so the elders are dealing with things. The top is given to the bottom, and he ranks the smallest. So every year there is a lot of time to rush around. Speaking of such things, he I am also used to it. Another reason is that those people’s deadlines are still hundreds of years. If they can’t break through, they may end up here in the end. This is a terrible thing for anyone. I don't want to care about these mundane things, and leave them to him. Many times these people in the Xuanyun Sect regard the ten elders as the people who work for them, but they don't know the others.
"Ten elders, this is the owner of our Cao family firm, Mr. Cao Ke." Gu Xin brought this guy in. Gu Xin's recent development has been very fast. After coming out of the training camp, who knows this guy? There is even the potential of an eighth-level fighter. No one had thought about such a thing before. This is a bit unbelievable, but standing in front of you is an eighth-level fighter, a genuine eighth-level fighter. When he came out, even Li Cong didn't believe it. I didn't expect this guy to be so powerful. Li Cong also ran to see that it was indeed this guy, with amazing talent.
"Hehe, there are many masters of the Xuanyun Sect. I just heard about it in the past. I really admire the ten elders today. If you say that there are ten elders in the entire continent, you can count them with one hand. In the future, if Xuanyunzong is under the leadership of the ten elders, he will definitely be able to travel thousands of miles." Li Cong also really felt that this guy was good. Li Cong believed his eyes very much. The tenth elder of the Xuanyun Sect is indeed a good one. The matters of the Xuanyun Sect that have been dealt with over the years have convinced all parties. All factions in the Xuanyun Sect have also wooed this guy, but he just followed His master brother can do it. As for the others. Then thank you Bumin. It's really that he doesn't have the mood to fight for power, or it's better to do his own job honestly. He sometimes wonders. If you ask the elders to do some things, they all say that they want to cultivate, and there are not so many things to manage these things, but when it comes to fighting for power, all of them are so capable. I really don’t care about that time. It.
"Master Cao's words are really bad for us. Master Cao himself is a ninth-level warrior. It is said that he is still a ninth-level magician, and there is such a powerful business firm. Which identity is much stronger than me. When it comes to me, doesn’t it mean to humiliate me? It’s not enough, Master Cao, don’t call me the elder as soon as you see it right away. My original name is Xie Lei. Just thank you brother, don’t ask for so many cumbersome things.
This guy saw Li Cong and said, this person has the first feeling, and many things are like the way they are now. When Li Cong saw Ling The fox boy had such a feeling when he was a kid, maybe this is the kind of induction between strong people. Seeing that everyone said that, Li is no longer pretending to be, and speaking of the age of the two. It's really not easy to talk about it, but people say that Li Cong is the elder brother, and they don't care about that. Anyway, the difference is not very much, just say it, who cares about these things.
"Well, good tea, this thing is actually much better than the tea of our Xuanyun sect. Is this the best tea called "Biluochun" produced in Big Brother's firm? "This guy is a love. Tea people, the ability to noisy tea on this continent is still possible, but there is still a certain gap compared with that on the earth, so Li has never been the same as on the planet rty, just do some high-end routes here. , Wanliang Gold One and Two Tea is talking about this newly released Biluochun, and Li Cong does limited sales, only 666 jin each time, and there is no more. The hidden auction system is implemented, as long as you can If you write it at a high price, this thing is yours. If you can’t write it, then I’m sorry. This thing is not yours. The lowest price in the last auction was a million taels of silver per catty, so it’s also out. There is an allusion to Wanliang Gold and one tael tea. When others talk about Biluochun, they don’t call him by name anymore. They all say it is called Wanliang tea. The taste of this entrance is indeed good, but it is the most The top talents drink it. As for other people, it is absolutely impossible. Who would spend so much money to drink this, because of the panic buying, this has also become a rare thing. This People all over the world want something that is relatively rare. If there are all over the street, no one would care about this. Li Cong has spotted the mentality of these people, so this can be successful.
666 catties of tea were sold within an hour. The lowest price was one tael of 100,000 silver, and the average price of the highest one was almost 300,000 taels of silver. This alone The sales of the company received billions of silver. Of course, this thing is auctioned every five days. There are no goods at other times. There are more than 100 billion silver in income in a year. Less, but this can only be regarded as a small business of Cao's House of Business.
Of course, this early-stage cost is also a lot, and it is for publicity and advertising. If there is no investment of billions of dollars, it is estimated that it is impossible for people across the mainland to know it. The common people just look at it, but some nobles are no longer like that. The things produced by Cao's business are a symbol of upper class society. If you don't have it in your hands, it would be too shameful. How can you tell others that you are a high-class person? That's just a joke, so those who bought it are thinking about when to make some more. Those who haven't bought it think that they are ashamed now, and they must have this thing in their hands next time, otherwise If you do, your own face will never be recovered. In some large forces, people who like tea, especially those ministers, love tea. This is a kind of elegance. Although many people do not understand what is going on. But everybody talks about this thing. If you don't have it in your home, what's the matter? Of course it won't work, so you have to buy it. It is because these various forces give face so much. This Biluochun has only been auctioned three or four times since the interview. The price has increased by 30% from the beginning, and there is a continuing upward trend.
"I don’t know, brother, you also like this, it’s okay. This thing is a good thing for others, but for my brother, it’s nothing, I don’t have it if it is more, but it’s okay if it’s more than a catty or two. It’s a problem.
Li Cong said with a smile. Gu Xin next to him was already carrying a two-pound bag. Xie Lei was definitely a person who likes tea. He opened it in front of so many people. It’s enough to lose his Xuanyun sect, but this guy doesn’t have that consciousness. He kept saying thanks to Li Cong and sighed in his heart that Li Cong’s big shot can give away tens of millions of silver. one's gift.
"Hehe, I don’t fake this. Everyone knows my personality. As long as it’s a tea with a brand name, everything can be discussed. Brother, since we all call each other brothers, I don’t hide here anymore. I have two things here. I hope my eldest brother can help. I won’t make my eldest brother embarrassed. Although this matter is my main purpose, it’s not easy for me to say something. , I won’t wrinkle my brows here, and how we should get along or get along with each other in the future, and the Xuanyun Sect will not have trouble with Big Brother.
This guy said boldly. He has been dealing with things for so many years, of course he knows. What kind of people to talk to, even if Li didn't do anything from here, he definitely couldn't be evil. If he couldn't live with Cao's business, his life and Xuanyun Sect's life would be difficult.
"Since we are all brothers, saying so much is out of the question, just say it, I will definitely do what I can do, and the brothers who can't do it will not say it." Li Cong said with a smile. The words are neither soft nor hard. Although both parties are considered bold people, after all, there are huge forces behind them. If this sentence is not right, many people may have troubles. Naturally, one must be careful. Be careful.
This guy quickly explained his intentions. The first thing is naturally Grigra’s thing. What he said is basically the same as Grigra’s side. This matter is indeed Grigra’s. It’s hard to say over there. Although the next thing is wrong with the young master of the Xuanyun Sect, if you didn’t steal ginseng from them, they wouldn’t find you. Besides, people were already killed by you, Xuan. As the head of the four major sects, Yunzong, if you don't show you some color, I guess there will be more people doing such things in the future. Can Xuanyunzong continue to survive? How would people in the arena think of them?
Naturally, Li Cong also knows the second thing, that is, the nine-turn resurrection pill. This thing is already imminent for San Zhang. If he doesn’t get this thing in ten years, he will change. It’s getting worse, and even if it has this thing, it’s useless. The next person in the Xuanyun Sect who is most likely to become a tenth-level fighter may die in a hundred years. Such things will definitely happen. Yes, so now Xuanyunzong is doing this as a big thing, even if it pays a lot of money, it will do it, but unfortunately there has been no news. After the news, they were thinking about what conditions Li Conghui would offer. In the end, they discussed that no matter what the cost, the knife had to go against each other. As long as San Zhang survived, he was likely to become a tenth-level fighter. In the end, they can earn back these things even with the profits. The glory of the Xuanyun Sect is just around the corner. Even the Four Great Empires had to look at them at that time.
"I do have the Nine Resurrection Pill here, brother. I know more about medicinal materials than you. This thing is refined and counted as the cost of my master. I can tell you directly, it will take at least 15 The value of trillions of silver is enough, and it is guaranteed that even if you hold that much silver, you will not be able to find one with this. If someone else comes, I will definitely ask for more than 20 trillion. The Southern Empire a few days ago The killer came to me. He paid a total of 18 trillion silver. I think the virtuous brother knows this, and naturally we don’t need that. The price is my cost price. Ten Five trillion silver and other valuable things, if you don’t have it, it’s okay to give me the silver directly.
Li Cong said readily. This was something Xie Lei never expected. He really didn’t expect Li Cong to give himself such a big one. Of face. You know that three trillion silver is definitely not a small amount. The annual income of Xuanyun Sect was less than 600 billion taels. It's definitely not that simple to get this number. Of course, Xuanyun Sect still has some other income every year. The total is about one trillion, and 15 trillion is not a small number for them, but the Xuanyun Sect has been deposited for tens of thousands of years, and it is strange that these things cannot be taken out.
If the Killing God knows this news, he will definitely vomit blood, mother, the world, that is, people like Li Cong can use three trillion dollars as a favor, but other people do not have such a handwriting, Li Cong It's really amazing. Not only do other people lack the courage, they don't have that strength, but they take such a big advantage when they come up. The Xuanyun Sect's upper and lower clan feel uncomfortable, especially Xie Lei, feeling like his brothers. They are all equal, but if you just accept those things, you will be a bit shorter than others in the future, and that won't work.
"Brother, I don’t know what to say. My Xuanyun sect owes eldest brother a favor. As long as it is something we have, you can say anything, as long as you don’t want our Xuanyun sect. Haha." Knowing that his brother has something to save his life, this guy is also very happy. He was not so happy before. Now if the brother learns this news, he still doesn't know how happy he will be.
Li Cong glanced at the items on the list and was immediately dumbfounded. This Xuanyun sect is really rich. Several items are rare treasures. It seems that they have really taken the book on this one. There are things worth hundreds of billions. Li Cong randomly selected a few. If he was not an acquaintance, he would never give him such a list. After seeing Li Cong, he would know about Xuanyun Sect. Of course, this calculation may be inaccurate. In the end, I picked something about the same value. Because the number is too large, it is impossible to be absolutely fair, so the final difference is hundreds of millions. The silver is not a problem, but Li Cong has one more thing to discuss with Xuanyunzong about land. It is absolutely the same as his own in the Eastern Empire, and he wants a lot of land under Xuanyunzong. It is estimated that Xuanyun Sect will not refuse. Their land income has been declining over the years. The total annual income is only tens of billions of silver. But how much farmland does Xuanyun Sect have?
Li Cong has a data. In nearly 7,000 provinces in the four empires, the Xuanyun Sect has an average of more than 10 million mu of land, and each mu of land contributes an average of 40 jin of grain per year. It’s only 400 wen. In fact, less than 300 wen was received. A province is more than three million taels of silver. The amount of silver that goes to the Xuanyunzong headquarters every year is 30 billion, which is low. The amount is 20 billion. Most of these lands are contributed by the disciples of the Xuanyun School, because they have a rule that as long as they reach the sixth level, they can go down the mountain to exercise. If you don’t get it the first time you descend, The 5,000 mu of land cannot be returned. This is the standard of Xuanyunzong for hundreds of thousands of years, so if you get it, you can make Xuanyunzong the number one landlord in the world, the royal family of the major empires. They are also inferior to them. Although the Xuanyun Sect has been selling the land in his own hands over the years, most of the time it still has more income, so the total number has not decreased every year, but has increased more. Yes, and even if the place is unstable, I don’t dare to offend Xuanyun Sect. No, when the Western Empire rebelled last time, everyone asked their subordinates not to go to Xuanyun Sect’s land. The troubles show how strong their influence is.
Li Cong's conditions were basically the same as those of the Eastern Empire, and they were also rented. Just pay them according to their current annual income, and it will be directly for 20 years. During these 20 years, your land will not have any loss. If there is any loss, the people of Cao's Commercial Bank will be responsible for compensation, thank you Lei was dumbfounded. He didn't expect the people from Cao's House of Business to do things like that. What's the matter? Could it be that so much more funds can be released at once? Each year their income is about 30 billion, so that in 20 years is 600 billion. Don't look at the big plate of Xuanyun Sect, but their expenses are also very expensive. The annual income of trillions of silver will always fall short of making ends meet. The foundation in the early years was still good, otherwise it might be impossible to unravel now.
Xie Lei thought there was something wrong with Li Cong's mind, how could he offer such conditions, if there is a problem on a certain piece of land. Or if there is something below, they can still buy it from Cao's Commercial Bank. Can't all the land be acquired? Moreover, they are talking about renting. Twenty years of rent is more expensive than buying land. Is it because Li Cong hasn't woken up yet. After repeated inquiries, Xie Lei determined that Li was never nonsense, but a real thing. How did they make a profit? This thing is very suspicious, how did it do it?
Li Cong naturally relies on the new type of seed. The annual yield of 2,000 jin of land is thirty taels of silver a year, and some places can produce 3,000 jin, and the average is more than 35 taels. One percent of the money for renting their land a year, and another one percent of the money to the tenants who plant the land, the profit is 98%. Things are not fools, of course they will be willing, and only fools will not do it. A year Li Cong can add trillions of dollars in income after removing various expenses. This is only one for Li Cong. When the time comes for large-scale trading, the food trading will be more extensive. Just like on the rty planet, most of the food merchants will be destroyed, and the industry will be completely monopolized. When their influence rises, they will know Own terrible.
This is because Xie Lei hadn’t heard of this method before. Besides such trivial matters, the guys in the Xuanyun Sect basically wouldn’t care about them one by one. If they knew that they could not only bring the Nine Resurrection Pill this time, If you bring it back, you can also bring back the total income for one year. The price is that they have collected taxes on some land in the next 20 years. Of course, they will be very satisfied. As for how the land is managed, of course they are not. It would care, of course, if it were absolutely impossible to sell these things directly, the Xuanyun Sect would never be willing to do this.
But if it is hired, no one will care about this matter. They all understand that this matter is planted for whom it is not planted. Some disciples under the Xuanyun Sect also often do some very excessive things, such as It is necessary to raise some land rents and collect a large amount of land rent ahead of time. It is because the land rent issue has killed many people. Now it is too late to say this, and there is no way to solve it. Li Cong’s solution is. Very good, Xie Lei also knows that doing so may make many people resent him, but in the end it must be the Xuanyun Sect’s sect who will benefit in the end, and the other sub-rudders can’t manage that much for so many years. You have eaten a lot of cheating and concealing. Now you should be honest. If someone else presides over this matter, it will definitely be a group attack, but Xie Lei will not do it, because he The master is the master of the sect, and there is a brother who is a quasi-tenth-level fighter. As long as these people's brains are not broken, these guys will understand what to do one by one, of course, they will not be random, this nonsense price It's definitely not small.
Xie Lei is also an enthusiastic person. After finalizing the matter with Li Cong, he immediately said, "Brother, this land is not as simple as you think. There are many things that can affect their output. The eldest brother doesn’t understand this kind of contracting. If it’s done, I’ll take one year’s rent and give them an explanation. As for the rest, I just look at what elder brother means. If the output is not that high in the future, no It’s just rent. It’s just a lot of bubbles, and it’s much better than the eldest brother’s direct loss of 20 years of rent.
This guy is loyal, and if Li Cong does this, the benefits will be Li Cong’s. Now, this guy may offend many people after he goes back, and he won't lose any benefit.
"Hehe, I just don’t worry about this. Your eldest brother, I dare not say that I am very good at other things, but I have never failed in dealing with this matter. If you don’t believe me, just watch it. I will definitely take this matter. Well done." Li Cong said with a smile. The Xuanyun Sect will probably thank him for this, because he let them take money for nothing~EbookFREE.me~this Where to find the matter, the two people talked for a while and naturally talked about Grigra's matter. When Xie Lei talked about this guy, his teeth were itchy. It turned out that this matter was not what Grigra said. So simple, take his ruined daughter as an example. This is actually an excuse that Grigra planted to Xuanyunzong. The situation at that time was that he was about to make peace, otherwise he would not send out the young master. People, who knew that this guy actually put some medicine in the young master’s tea, which caused the young master to hallucinate, and none of the daughters he gave out was the jewel in his palm. This series of The thing was planned like that. I originally thought that the two people were done, and the young sect master had to marry his daughter, so that things would calm down. Who knew that the young sect master would be like him like crazy In sparring, the young master of the Xuanyun Sect was also a ninth-level fighter at the time. The future star is comparable to Xie Lei’s ability, but for a tenth-level fighter, the gap is still too large. Later, Grigra directly I killed that guy if I missed it. This thing is out of control. If you lose the baby, you can still reconcile. As long as it is a gift of equal value, the young master died there. If they can tolerate it. , This is not Xuanyun Sect. Where else should the name of the world's largest sect be put? So the two sides can say that they want to die endlessly. Li Cong was very surprised when he heard this. When Grigra told him this, he obviously concealed it. (To be continued...)