They were indirectly requesting Ming Zhitian to provide protection while also helping them improve their cultivation. This was because they had witnessed too many miracles through Ming Zhitian. When he first arrived here, he was just an obscure nobody, utterly insignificant.
With Dong Qianyue leading the way, the other three also sensibly stood up: "I, Qi Shan's Zhang Tianyue, Nan Xingkong, and I from Lanshan Huhu, Bei Huangqi, and I from Dihai Wucheng, Xi Zhenyao, and I from Wanli Senmu, Dong Qianyue, will henceforth obey Ming Xiu Shen without any second thoughts. All rebellious intentions, whether human or divine, will be met with universal outrage! May heaven and earth destroy us!"
Ming Zhitian waved his hand: "No, no, no, this is a hot potato, and I'm very busy managing the Divine Sect."
Bei Huangqi said: "So Ming Xiu Shen has already reached a level that we can never access. I have only heard of the Divine Sect in ancient texts, and I never expected you to have such great fortune. Congratulations."
Dong Qianyue said indirectly: "Ming Xiu Shen, you misunderstand. We are not asking you to manage it; rather, we are now your people. If you need anything, we will do so without hesitation and help you unconditionally. Of course, we may be insignificant and unable to help much, but we will do our best with all our hearts for you."
Ming Zhitian said: "To be frank, I am now the Sect Master of the Divine Sect and am recruiting disciples. Can you help me?"
Xi Zhenyao immediately stepped forward, having longed for this: "Ming Xiu Shen, can I be your disciple?"
Bei Huangqi, seeing that he had been beaten to it, quickly stepped forward as well: "Me too, Ming Xiu Shen. Bei Huangqi is very willing to become your disciple."
Even the usually well-informed Nan Xingkong spoke up: "I will also lead my two thousand seven hundred disciples from the Three Sects and Nine Schools to join the Divine Sect."
Dong Qianyue's expression flickered: "As long as you need me, I can join too."
Ming Zhitian said: "How about this: from now on, the Twenty-Three Sects and Thirty-Nine Schools of the Ten Lands of Huang Tian will become a branch of my Divine Sect. You don't need to relocate or transport anything. It will remain as it is, just bearing a new title. What do you think?"
"We couldn't ask for more!" The three sect masters were overjoyed.
Dong Qianyue was also pleased; they had found a powerful patron, and their future cultivation advancement would be assured: "It is my greatest honor!"
Ming Zhitian nodded with satisfaction, then collected the four seals: "Then it's settled."
Immediately, he summoned box after box of top-grade, first-grade, second-grade, ..., ninth-grade, tenth-grade, and hundredth-grade elixirs from his storage bag, totaling one hundred boxes!
These were obtained from the storage bags of many powerful cultivators; they were countless and inexhaustible. He, Ming Zhitian, could never use them all himself, so it was better to distribute them. After all, they were now a branch of the Divine Sect.
They were stunned, looking at the elixirs before them, enough to last their twenty-three sects and thirty-nine schools for ten years.
When they looked at the box of hundredth-grade elixirs, their eyes widened further, and they wished they could swallow them whole. These were rare items that could not be bought even with money.
Ming Zhitian said: "These elixirs for healing and cultivation are all yours. Distribute them appropriately, with clear rewards and punishments. Effective immediately, any disciple who reaches the Transcendence realm will be rewarded with one tenth-grade elixir, and those who reach the Asura realm can be rewarded with one hundredth-grade elixir. As for you, each of you will receive twenty hundredth-grade elixirs."
The four were overjoyed: "As you command, thank you, Great Sect Master!"
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After resolving the matters with the Twenty-Three Sects and Thirty-Nine Schools and the Demonic Sect, Ming Zhitian was on his way back to the Divine Sect: "I thought a great battle was about to break out, but I didn't expect Hong Lie Feng's words to resolve it all."