[Year twenty-nine, age fifty-five.]
[The Qingqiu Sect has been destroyed.]
[You refused to accept any form of surrender or negotiation.]
[You ordered the entire army to slaughter every living thing, leaving not even a single chicken or dog alive.]
[In an instant, heads rolled like tumbleweeds on Qingqiu Mountain, blood flowed thick enough to float spears, and corpses clogged the river channels.]
[Then you thought of that corpse-refining technique the Feiyu Sect used.]
[So you didn't even spare the dead.]
[You ordered the entire army to burn Qingqiu Mountain to the ground, leaving nothing but scorched earth behind.]
["Too ruthless..."]
[The horrific scene of the Qingqiu Sect's annihilation scared the Feiyu Sect half to death.]
[Their cultivators stationed on Qingqiu Mountain immediately knelt and surrendered on the spot. One of the Feiyu Sect's Grand Elders even expressed willingness to offer up his territory and swear fealty, pledging to forever remain a vassal slave.]
[The sincerity of the Feiyu Sect moved even the top brass of the Heavenly Fiend Alliance.]
["Sect Master, the Feiyu Sect seems genuinely terrified. Perhaps we should accept their surrender, temporarily ease the fighting, and give our soldiers some time to rest and recover."]
["Rest my ass! Haven't you heard the saying: 'Fight with full force at the first charge, lose momentum at the second, and be exhausted by the third!' Let me tell you all, Blazing Star can only have one power, and that's our Tiansha Sect! We said we'd unify this star, and if we're missing even a single city, a single village, or a single rock, it doesn't count as unification!"]
[You beheaded the Feiyu Sect's Grand Elder as a ritual punishment, then ordered the army to continue their assault on the Feiyu Sect the very next day after annihilating the Qingqiu Sect.]
[From then on, the Heavenly Fiend Alliance took over all territories formerly belonging to the Qingqiu Sect, and their total land area now covered half of Blazing Star.]
[Taking down the Qingqiu Sect brought in not just territory, but a resource windfall that made you rich overnight!]
[After emerging from the Qingqiu Sect's main warehouse, your Pot Heaven space was completely stuffed. There was simply no room left to fit anything else.]
[Even so, the warehouse still contained a dazzling array of immortal cultivation resources.]
[This was a top-tier sect force on a second-tier star. And not a remote second-tier star like Lingwei Star either. This was a second-tier star situated right next to a first-tier star. Of course their resources were abundant.]
[You personally picked through everything several times before allowing anyone else in to catalog the spoils of war.]
["Damn it! Why is the Pot Heaven space so small? If only I could keep Da Chun by my side and just use a whole small world to store everything!"]
[You stamped your foot in frustration and swore to properly develop this Divine Ability further.]
[But to be fair, you couldn't just hog everything for yourself either.]
[The whole Heavenly Fiend Alliance had followed you through life-and-death struggles, with their lives hanging by a thread.]
[Now that the war was won, it wouldn't be right if they got absolutely nothing out of it.]
[Sure, you planned to kick the donkey once it's done grinding sooner or later, but for now, you still needed the donkey to keep pulling the millstone. So you had to toss them a few carrots.]
[The Qingqiu Sect had fallen, and the Feiyu Sect was on the brink of destruction.]
[Every faction on Blazing Star, big and small, was panicking, especially after learning that the Heavenly Fiend Alliance was hell-bent on unification and refused to accept any form of surrender.]
[A familiar scene of mass exodus began playing out on Blazing Star as well.]
[The Star Harbor was packed with people, and Star Ships clogged the skies.]
[Sadly, this vast star of Blazing Star had only one Star Harbor.]
[Why? Because the Star Harbor was an absolute goldmine, and all three major sects had wanted a piece of the action in the past.]
[Building three separate Star Harbors would have created competition, so instead, they decided to jointly operate a single one, maximizing their profits.]
[Everyone traveling to or from Blazing Star had to pass through this Star Harbor, which naturally meant everyone had to pay a toll here.]
[Now that boomerang had come back to stab them in the back.]
[After the Tiansha Sect launched their unification war, the Feiyu Sect and Qingqiu Sect immediately kicked all Tiansha Sect members out of the Star Harbor.]
[Now that the Qingqiu Sect had collapsed, the Feiyu Sect alone couldn't possibly hold back the Tiansha Sect's advance.]
[Before long, the only Star Harbor fell under the control of one of your personal guard units.]
[When the Star Harbor resumed operations, you arrived above it, stepping on a black cloud, standing aloft in mid-air.]
["All hail the Sect Master!!!"]
[The massive army at the Star Harbor knelt in unison, their thunderous salutes echoing through the air.]
[The Blazing Star residents and cultivators who were preparing to leave felt an oppressive weight like a mountain bearing down on them. Even though they didn't want to, they were forced to kneel and pay homage as well.]
["Greetings to all you good folks of Blazing Star. Everyone's gathered here today, so what seems to be the occasion?"]
[You were asking a question you already knew the answer to.]
[One bold soul actually answered you.]
["We want to lift off from the Star Harbor, enter the Channel, and head to other planets!"]
[You nodded slightly.]
["Ah, well, Blazing Star has indeed seen a lot of warfare lately, and the people are suffering. I can understand wanting to get away and find some refuge."]
[Never mind how that warfare started in the first place.]
["Senior Cultivator! Please let us go! Blazing Star is yours now. If we leave, there'll be no one left to stand in your way!"]
[That statement probably came from the leader of some faction.]
[These people were fleeing Blazing Star in droves now, with whole sects running out together.]
[You nodded again.]
["That makes sense. But here's what I think: you can leave, but you can't take my things with you."]
["Your things? We haven't taken any of your things!"]
["Oh~ my friend, look at what you're saying. Blazing Star belongs to me now, so every blade of grass and every tree on this planet should belong to me too, right?
But look at all the stuff stuffed in your storage pouches: pills, magical artifacts, Source Stones...
Oh my, and guess what? All of those were made from the very grass and trees of this planet!"]
["What are you trying to do!"]
["I'll leave you the Star Ships, and you can bring some supplies for the journey. As for everything else, the worldly possessions, just hand them back to me."]
[This was the real purpose of your visit today: to establish a single rule.]
[Anyone was allowed to leave Blazing Star, but they couldn't take any extra immortal cultivation resources with them. Not even calligraphy, antiques, or treasures that held little meaning for cultivators but great value to ordinary civilians. None of it could leave.]
[In other words, they were free to go, but they had to leave looking like paupers.]
[Furthermore, until Blazing Star was fully unified and society stabilized, the Star Harbor would only allow departures, no arrivals.]
[If anyone owned a Star Ship capable of taking off and landing without relying on the Star Harbor, then good for them. That was their own skill, and you couldn't control that.]
[After you announced the rules, someone immediately erupted in anger.]
["This is tyranny! This is greed! The entire planet is yours, and yet you want to strip us of everything we own!"]
[You fired back.]
["Now that's just unreasonable. If you don't leave, then you don't have to hand anything over, do you?"]
["What the hell! If we stay, we'll end up butchered by you sooner or later! How can we possibly stay?!"]
["Now that's funny. I'm standing right here, and who exactly have I butchered? Aren't I sitting here reasoning with you all peacefully?"]
[The crowd erupted into chaos.]
[Some protested, some cursed in fury, and some cried out of sheer frustration.]
[You weren't angry in the slightest. Let them vent all they wanted. In the end, if they wanted to leave, they were free to go. But their belongings stayed behind.]
["Man, second-tier stars are way more fun..."]
[Honestly, you were starting to hate the thought of leaving this place.]

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