The Sims: I Open the Immortal Path for All Beings

Chapter 1863: Chapters 1808–1809: Dishes on the Dining Table_2

Moreover, when comparing the past interests to the current ones, they are worlds apart. Once, they suppressed and maintained the status quo for a small profit; now, the abundant interests make them unwilling to retreat even a single step.

Thus, even though the top immortal sects have seized substantial interests and resources, they refuse to relinquish a fraction. They vehemently suppress any attempts by the Jade Emperor to break free and seize authority, giving no chance for escape.

Naturally, the seeds sown in the past have ripened to such outcomes today. The current landscape of the Divine Continent is entrenched with contradictions at an extreme, making conflicts and reorganization among the forces inevitable.

“A turbulent time indeed!” Tie Qianshan sighed.

As a participant in the grand scheme, Tie Qianshan deeply sensed everything happening in the Divine Continent today.

Once a power holder leading a rising faction, he wasn’t surprised by the current worldly landscape; instead, he found it expected.

All history is contemporary history, this saying never errs.

The conflicts among today’s Divine Continent forces, though different in actors, are indistinguishable in nature from the interest struggles within the Great Ming Empire.

No perpetual peace exists; peace implies stability, implying stagnation.

For vested interests, stabilizing the current situation means they gain the most benefits, naturally expending everything to maintain it.

But for newcomers, they cannot accept this status quo. Only constant challenges and overthrowing incumbents allow them to take over everything and obtain desired interests and resources.

Only through ongoing conflict and battle can the power structure continually shuffle, ensuring a world full of life and vitality.

“For our alliance, isn’t this an opportunity?” Zi Tianxiong smiled, optimistic and undaunted by the current situation.

From the perspective of the Heterodox Alliance, their expansion has reached immense proportions, vastly different from the initial formation.

But for titans like Zi Tianxiong, who have once stood at the peak of the Great Ming Empire, accepting inferiority is unbearable after experiencing the pinnacle.

The Heterodox Alliance is indeed robust now, but it pales into insignificance compared to top immortal sects and isn’t the strongest among large immortal sects.

They understand that the Heterodox Alliance has reached a limit, but it’s not due to internal factors, not because they lack outstanding disciples or the desire to excel.

Rather, it’s due to external reasons; they lack resources and an external environment for further ascension.

Indeed, the Heavenly Court’s Expansion Plan can provide cultivation resources, but compared to the vast needs of the Heterodox Alliance, it’s just a drop in the ocean.

However, the stable environment, with top immortal sects holding the bulk of resources, cannot be broken by the Heterodox Alliance’s power alone.

The current landscape of the Divine Continent is chaotic and complex, not easily sliced apart horizontally or vertically but interwoven with intricate connections and varying perspectives yielding different stances.

For instance, within the Heavenly Court, the Jade Emperor aims to seize more authority, breaking his shackles. He faces not only veteran Daoist Monarchs with their backing sects but all forces beyond the Heavenly Court.

Indeed, even from the perspective of large sects like the Heterodox Alliance, on the stance of limiting the Jade Emperor’s authority and influence in the Heavenly Court, they align with these veteran Daoist Monarchs.

Even among the newly ascended Dao Lords now, cooperation with the Jade Emperor is built on leveraging his name to dismantle the power pattern held by the veteran Daoist Monarchs.

But should they seize authority from the veteran Daoist Monarchs, their first act would be to replicate these monarchs’ methods, continuously limiting the Jade Emperor and other Imperial Honors from grasping all powers.

With the Jade Emperor and these Imperial Honors in control, they would instinctively suppress these newly ascended Dao Lords, not wishing to truly pass down all veteran Daoist powers.

The large immortal sects share the same logic; while allied with newly ascended Dao Lords to seize top sect power, they suppress sects and religious sects one tier below, maintaining their own interests.

“A complex situation where all allies exist for interests, and once interests clash, former allies can crumble in no time,” Xue Wuheng remarked coldly.

Currently, some newly ascended Dao Lords and large immortal sects wish to ally with the Heterodox Alliance, enticing them with many promises.

Yet, Xue Wuheng and his peers don’t believe these promises for a second.

The promises sound alluring and transformative for the Heterodox Alliance if realized, but upon deep consideration, they appear as carrots dangled before a donkey, visible yet unreachable.

If indeed they obtained these benefits, the Heterodox Alliance’s power would multiply significantly, posing substantial threats to newly ascended Dao Lords and large immortal sects.

Currently, the worlds explored among the Realms of Heavenly Seas are limited, implying fixed interests. Even if successfully pulling a top immortal sect into the fray, it doesn’t ensure a monopoly on resources.

A centipede dies but never falls, and top immortal sects earn their titles due to a Taoist Monarch’s presence.

In this era, a Taoist Monarch is an invincible presence; even in defeat, without their fall, top sects might concede some interests but won’t surrender everything.

For these Dao Lords, their backing sects are both support and chains. Forcing them to surrender all leads them to mutual destruction!

An unattached True Immortal poses threats to a large sect, a frenzied unattached Taoist Monarch might turn any top sect’s and Monarch’s life into turmoil.

Hence, it’s destined that even if top sects yield some interests, they maintain a bottom line, but the resources aren’t enough for all.

These newly ascended Dao Lords and large sect powerhouses know this truth, don’t they?

So why do they persist?

Because they know it, they aim to involve more immortal sects in the affair.

For these newly ascended Dao Lords and large sects, the demand for interests is massive, but acquiring them solely from top sects isn’t enough, so some target other large sects.