Handing all of Qingzhou to Lin Xiao could not be too hasty.
Xu Tianchong first started with Qingzhou City. After all, Xu Tianchong had set up the Nine Suns Burning Sky Array in Qingzhou City. If not for Lin Xiao's help, the entire city would have been destroyed. Therefore, the people of Qingzhou City had a good impression of Lin Xiao and did not have much objection to Lin Xiao taking over the city.
After all, the people of Qingzhou City knew a little about the relationship between Xu Qingruo and Lin Xiao.
After letting Lin Xiao take over Qingzhou City, Xu Tianchong began to let Lin Xiao take over the areas outside of Qingzhou City. He also vigorously promoted Lin Xiao's achievements in Youzhou and Bing Zhou.
For the people outside of Qingzhou City, they did not care about who ruled Qingzhou, but whether their lives could be improved.
They were very moved by Lin Xiao's achievements. After all, Youzhou and Qingzhou were adjacent. They had also seen the changes in Youzhou City in recent years.
Therefore, the people did not have much objection to Lin Xiao taking over Qingzhou.
In a month's time.
In just a month's time, Lin Xiao had become the true ruler of Qingzhou.
Of course, at this time, Xu Tianchong also announced that the Qingzhou Sect was disbanded and that he was no longer the Sect Leader.
However, in reality, the Qingzhou Sect was not disbanded.
Under Xu Tianchong's arrangement, the people of the Qingzhou Sect hid in a secret treasure land and cultivated in seclusion. When the time was right, Xu Tianchong would let them come out and rebuild the Qingzhou Sect!
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"Ding!
Congratulations to the host for successfully unifying Qingzhou, one of the nine states in the central region. The host is rewarded with the sage level skill, Puppet Immortal Technique x1! "
At the same time that Lin Xiao became the true master of Qingzhou, the system's notification sounded.
Lin Xiao did not expect that happiness would come so suddenly.
Originally, in Lin Xiao's plan, the unification of the Qing Prefecture was relatively late. Now, he planned to unify the Western Region and the Jade Prefecture, the two weaker places. However, he did not expect that the unification of the Qing Prefecture would actually happen before these two places!
In fact, Lin Xiao had already deployed most of his forces in these two places. He only needed to activate them and he would be able to take them down. However, he considered that these two places were more sensitive. If he seized them without sufficient strength, it would cause the other forces to be dissatisfied. Therefore, Lin Xiao did not take action.
However, now that Qingzhou had been unified, of course, Lin Xiao was happy.
Lin Xiao was not satisfied with the reward.
After all, the current situation was not stable. The war with the Shura Sect might break out at any time. Dipankara alone was definitely not enough. Lin Xiao urgently needed high-end combat strength. Even if the system did not reward him with a master at the peak of the Half-saint, it should at least reward him with some elixirs!
But now, it was just a Puppet Technique.
Lin Xiao curled his lips helplessly. Then, he flipped through the Puppet Immortal Technique.
After reading it carefully, Lin Xiao suddenly wanted to apologize to the system for his ridicule.
Awesome!
This Puppet Immortal Art was really awesome!
Not to mention anything else, merely the ability to refine Half-Saint puppets was already extremely useful to Lin Xiao!
It should be known that there weren't many semi-sage experts. If it could be refined, it would be very worthwhile. Although it required a lot of materials and was very complicated to refine, it was still refining a semi-sage puppet. If it was too simple, it wouldn't make sense. Moreover, such an Immortal Method was much more powerful than that of a semi-sage immortal general.
After all, no matter how strong a Divine General was, there was only one of them. If this Puppet Immortal Technique was used well, it could refine endless puppets!
"Not bad!"
After familiarizing himself with the Puppet Immortal Technique, Lin Xiao smiled with satisfaction.
The system's rewards were getting better and better. Lin Xiao couldn't help but look forward to the following rewards. After all, in addition to the Bing Province, Youzhou, and Qingzhou that he had nominally occupied, the Divine Province, Yue Province, Western Region, and Yuzhou were also under his control. He only needed to put in a little effort to occupy them!
That would be four rewards at once!
Thinking of this, Lin Xiao could not help but be overjoyed.
However, while there were happy things, there were also many worries.
For the current Lin Xiao, the biggest worry was the invasion of the Shura Sect!
This time, the Shura Sect's plan to attack the other three sects had failed miserably. The Shura Sect would definitely not let this go. Lin Xiao did not know what they were going to do next.
Just as Lin Xiao was guarding against the Shura Sect, an unexpected guest arrived in Qing Province City.
This guest was none other than the Medicine Sect's Great Elder.
Not too long ago, the Medicine Sect's Great Elder had brought the Medicine Sect's Sect Master's son to plead with Xu Qingruo. In the end, Lin Xiao had ruined everything and the two of them had ended up in a rather unpleasant situation.
At this moment, the Medicine Sect had taken the initiative to visit Qing Province. This surprised Lin Xiao.
Even though Lin Xiao had become sworn brothers with the Poison Lord and was now aware of the Poison Lord's true identity as a former genius of the Medicine Sect, his attitude towards the Medicine Sect was no longer as disgusted as before. However, the members of the Medicine Sect were unaware of this. What could they possibly be here for?
"Sect Master Lin!"
The Medicine Sect's Great Elder was very respectful when he saw Lin Xiao. He was a completely different person from his previous haughtiness.
Lin Xiao raised his brows in surprise. He then looked at the Medicine Sect's Great Elder and smiled as he asked, "May I ask why the Medicine Sect's Great Elder has come in person?"
"I won't hide this from you, Sect Master Lin. I'm here to invite you to the Middle Region to discuss important matters!"
The Medicine Sect's Great Elder stared intently at Lin Xiao before he said, "We've all heard about the Asura Sect's attack against the other three sects. In order to prevent the Asura Sect from attacking again, we've decided to join forces!"
Join forces?
Lin Xiao raised his brows in surprise. However, after careful consideration, this made sense.
The Asura Sect's intentions towards the Central Region's Ten Sects had always been very secretive. The Seven Sects of the Central Region had no idea at all. However, the failure of the Asura Sect's operation this time had caused such a huge commotion that the Seven Sects of the Central Region would definitely know about it. Once they found out about the Asura Sect's ambitions, it would be normal for them to choose to join forces.
After all, the Asura Sect's power was far too great. Even though the Seven Sects of the Central Region had been the overlords of the Central Region for hundreds of years, they had not lost their self-awareness. Based on their powers, it was impossible for them to fight against the Asura Sect, one of the three reclusive sects. Only by joining forces would they have a way out.
Especially the Formation King's attack on the Qing Sect. This made them understand the urgency of the situation.
After all, the Formation Sect's destruction back then was inextricably linked to the Ten Great Sects. If the Asura Sect and the Formation Sect could attack the other three sects, they could attack the Seven Sects of the Central Region as well!
After all, the Seven Sects of the Central Region had been the main force in the destruction of the Formation Sect. The other three sects had, at best, played a supporting role. If the Formation King had not even spared the other three sects, how could he possibly spare them?