Zhang Jian quickly received an urgent ssage co-signed by Zhang Zhao and the Dong Shen Ancestor.
The letter included the nurous privileges the Profound Extre Sect would enjoy after submission, as well as the obligations they must fulfill.
The terms were so harsh that Zhang Jian felt sorry for the Profound Extre Sect just reading them!
As the last Immortal Sect Dao Lineage to submit to the Great Xia Dynasty, the Profound Extre Sect’s treatnt was far inferior to the previous Shangqing Sword Sect.
Zhang Jian understood the reason!
As the negotiations dragged on, the Great Xia Dynasty gradually integrated other sect forces from over one hundred and forty continents, gaining control over most of the power in the Southeastern States, increasingly compressing the space for the Profound Extre Sect.
The bargaining chips in the hands of the Profound Extre Sect were becoming fewer and fewer.
If not for Zhang Jian’s reluctance to easily start a war, coupled with the Profound Extre Sect consistently sending people to lobby within the Great Xia Dynasty and express their stance, the Profound Extre Sect would likely have been exterminated in a short ti.
After carefully reviewing the nurous terms and obligations in the letter, a smile finally appeared on Zhang Jian’s face.
He was quite satisfied with the results Zhang Zhao, the Dong Shen Ancestor, and others had achieved.
This ti, besides ceding the ruling power over the last fifty continents out of the Southeast Two Hundred Continents, the Profound Extre Sect also reduced the tax percentage culled from these fifty continents to a very low level each year.
Only twenty percent!
Eighty percent went to the Great Dynasty’s governnt!
This proportion was not on par with the Shangqing Sword Sect and couldn’t even compare with the Five Elents Immortal Sect.
Additionally, the title of Lord of the Dukes in the Northwest held by the Profound Extre Sect was more of an empty na.
They only retained a part of the fief and the autonomy of their territories.
The suppression of Profound Extre Immortal Sect’s authority naturally ant that the Great Xia Dynasty’s control over these regions would be stronger in the future.
In the future, the Northwest would also have one less unshakable Immortal Sect Dao Lineage!
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Zhang Jian was in a very good mood and promptly announced that a grand Heaven Worship Ceremony would be held in a few days to celebrate the Great Xia Dynasty’s dominance over the land and its territorial expansion.
Rituals such as Fengshan Sacrifices and Heaven Worship typically proclaim the royal family’s legitimacy, or otherwise, showcase the unparalleled achievents of the emperor.
Now that the Great Xia Dynasty unified the Southeast Two Hundred Continents, such accomplishnts far exceeded the emperors of previous dynasties in the East Continent, making a grand Heaven Worship Ceremony an expected event.
Zhang Jian calculated that in five days, it would be an auspicious day, and instructed his subjects to set up in advance.
He also announced that during the Heaven Worship Ceremony, so dukes would be re-enfeoffed, and the land of certain Immortal Dao Sects would be determined.
This was undoubtedly a significant event for the newly pledged Immortal Sect Dao Lineages inside and outside the Great Xia Dynasty, but for Zhang Jian, it was just a minor affair.
Throughout the Great Xia Dynasty, officials were instantly busy.
The expansion of the Eastern Continent Emperor by two hundred continents entailed countless benefits, which might seem like re wealth accumulation for the imperial family, but for any noble family or duke, it was a major matter, perhaps the start of a class leap.
Even powerhouses from various Immortal Sect Dao Lineages and cultivation families were thrilled by this.
As they knew, many Spirit Mountain Blessed Lands were currently unclaid in the Southeast Two Hundred Continents, having just joined the Great Xia, which was a direct benefit.
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Five days later, as Zhang Zhao and the Dong Shen Ancestor returned, the Heaven Worship Ceremony was held as scheduled.
This grand Heaven Worship Ceremony was held under the gaze of all, with nurous civil and military officials from the Great Xia Dynasty in attendance, as well as many Immortal Sect Dao Lineages and cultivation families under Great Xia’s rule.
Zhang Jian’s expression remained calm; the list of enfeoffnts and the determined scope of fiefs had long been prepared. In fact, the highlight was the confirmation of so territories for the Five Elents Immortal Sect, the Shangqing Sword Sect, and so previously neutral sects and families.
It was destined that so would be happy while others would be sad.
After the Heaven Worship Ceremony concluded, Zhang Jian held another Ancestral Worship Ceremony in the Grand Ancestral Temple.
In the Grand Ancestral Temple
Once many of the Zhang clan mbers had left, Zhang Jian personally released nurous gold and silver Yuanbao from the Spatial Ring.
Zhang Jian casually set up a space of Emperor’s Qi.
In the Emperor’s Qi Space, heaps of gold and silver Yuanbao were released like little hills.
This ti, the quantity of gold and silver Yuanbao prepared by Zhang Jian was no less than the last ti he obtained them.
The last ti was in the Sea Eye of Qingping Sea, where he slew an Outer World Powerhouse and destroyed the remnant soul of the Desolate God Emperor, preventing the Sea Eye’s destruction and saving countless living beings in Qingping Sea.
Later, he personally killed a fully ford Outer Demon God.
But Zhang Jian believed this ti’s sacrifice should not be much smaller than the last.
Because this ti, the Great Xia Dynasty expanded its territories, integrating nurous fertile lands from the Southeast Two Hundred Continents at once.
Although most of the Southeast Two Hundred Continents submitted to the Great Xia Dynasty in the form of dukes,
When Zhang Jian believed that this montum probably far exceeded that of the Great Xia’s founding.
He had great expectations for this.
Before the Grand Ancestral Temple, heaps of gold and silver Yuanbao were thrown into the central cauldron by Zhang Jian, where wisps of blue smoke overflowed, reaching straight for the skies.
Heaps of gold and silver Yuanbao vanished.
Watching more and more gold and silver Yuanbao consud by fire, the smile on Zhang Jian’s face grew increasingly intense.
This ti, it should et the ’ancestors’ expectations.
However, Zhang Jian noticed that the amount of gold and silver Yuanbao burned this ti was still less than last ti.
It was slightly short of half a mountain of gold and silver.
But it was not much.
Thinking for a bit, Zhang Jian then sent in a Spirit Treasure he had carefully prepared lastly.
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