“Everyone can feel rest assured. After the alliance is formed, you will still be the patriarchs of your own sacred lands, and your sacred lands will be under your own control,” Huang Xiaolong said as his gaze swept across the people at the banquet. 

Zhu Xu and the others’ tensed nerves eased at Huang Xiaolong’s words. This was the crux of the matter that lied heavy on their minds, and they were worried that after an alliance was formed, the ‘alliance chief’ Huang Xiaolong would revoke their positions as patriarch of their own sacred lands.

Huang Xiaolong subsequently stated some of the rules, conditions, and authority level of the alliance. 

Each sacred land’s patriarch would retain their positions, control the entire sacred land, but these sacred lands would be Cangqiong Sacred Land’s vassals, and serve the Cangqiong Sacred Land, and they were required to send a certain amount of spirit stones, holy pills, spiritual...