Chapter 4: The Beginning of the Territorial Alliance
According to the geographical distribution, among the seven major sects in the south, except for the weakest Linggu in the southwest border of the Bi'an Empire, and the Antarctic Gate on Yingzhou Island in the southernmost part of the empire, the other five most powerful sects are bordered by the state of Tianyu Sect, that is to say, Tianyu Sect is stuck on their way to the north of the empire, especially the imperial capital Tiansheng City, that is to say, these sects must go through Tianyu Sect to do anything in the north In the south of the empire, it is simply impossible to travel to the north of the empire.
In terms of specific distribution, the "Bozhou Domain" of the Feather God Sect is next to the Yingzhou Domain of the Tianyu Sect, the "Luzhou Domain" of the Iron Sword Gate is next to the Yingzhou Domain and the Yunzhou Domain of the Tianyu Sect, the "Shengzhou Domain" of the Flower Sect is next to the Yunzhou Domain of the Tianyu Sect, the "Qizhou Domain" of the Lingyun Hall is next to the Yunzhou Domain and the Dingzhou Domain of the Tianyu Sect, and the "Suizhou Domain" of the original Wanfeng Forest is bordered by the Yingzhou Domain of the Tianyu Sect. After all, the five most powerful sects in the south are all next to the state of the Tianyu Sect.
After the four major sects in the south, the Feather God Sect, the Iron Sword Sect, the Flower Sect, and the Lingyun Hall received Wan Fenglin's proposal, they were all weighing it again and again, especially considering the pros and cons and benefits, whether it was dangerous to offend the Tianyu Sect or Wan Fenglin, and whether they could really surpass the Tianyu Sect after calculating the alliance of the seven major sects.
First of all, everyone basically agrees with Wan Fenglin's proposal to "stop infighting" and "mutual recognition of each other's spheres of influence" between the so-called seven major sects in the south, especially the weaker sects, they are afraid at any time that they will be annexed by other powerful sects, and now with the commitment of Wan Fenglin, the largest sect in the south, the weaker sects are of course in favor of it with both hands. For the stronger sects in the south, although there are also plans to annex the weaker sects, but because in the entire south, there is no sect that has the strong strength of Wan Fenglin, who monopolizes the two major states, and they dare not risk being wiped out to disobey Wan Fenglin, so they do not dare to openly oppose Wan Fenglin's proposal of "southern truce", and in the end, everyone acquiesced to this proposal, and the seven major sects in the south reached a situation of "peaceful coexistence".
Wan Fenglin's second proposal required the seven major sects in the south to form an alliance to jointly fight against the Tianyu Sect, and at the same time open up the passage from the southern part of the empire to the imperial capital Tiansheng City and the northern part of the empire. For this proposal, Linggu and Wujimen, which are not bordering the state of the Tianyu Sect, expressed a neutral attitude, but also promised to advance and retreat together with the seven major sects in the south, because these two major sects are located in a remote area and their own strength is not strong, Wan Fenglin does not have too many requirements for these two sects, but only asks them to join the alliance. And the Feather God Sect, the Iron Sword Sect, the Flower Sect, and the Lingyun Palace, which are stronger in the south, are also considering the gains and losses of this matter. On the one hand, there is only one state in his sphere of influence, and it borders the state of the Tianyu Sect, and the combat power of his own state is not a little worse than the combat power of the Tianyu Sect. On the other hand, these four sects also saw that since one of their own sects was still worried that they would be wiped out by the Tianyu Sect at any time, then if they really formed an alliance with the seven major sects in the south according to Wan Fenglin's proposal and signed an agreement of "offensive and defensive alliance", then it should be better to confront the four major states of the Tianyu Sect with the strength of the seven major sects in the south and the seven major states and the southern sea area than to fight alone, even if they could not completely win the Tianyu Sect, they could just fight to a tie on both sides. As long as it is not swallowed and eaten by the Heavenly Feather Sect, then everything is fine. At the same time, he calmed down and thought to himself, although Wan Fenglin had the selfish intention of pulling other sects to fight against the Tianyu Sect together, obtain the Yingzhou domain, and open up the selfishness of going to the imperial capital Tiansheng City and the northern region of the empire. However, these four major sects also found that they also had the same appeal as Wan Fenglin, that is, to defeat the Tianyu Sect and obtain a passage to the north of the empire, especially the imperial capital, whether it was from the Yingzhou region, the Yunzhou region or the Dingzhou domain.
In the end, under Wan Fenglin's "coercion and temptation", the seven major sects in the south formed an alliance against the Tianyu Sect after some bargaining, because geographically "the north is the sky, the south is the earth", so under Wan Fenglin's suggestion, the name of the alliance was taken as the "Earth Alliance" or "Earth Alliance" for short.
The purpose of the set is: to exterminate the Tianyu Sect and carve up the Northern Empire!
The most important thing is that when the seven major sects in the south established the Earth Alliance, they also made a "blood alliance oath": after the Earth Alliance exterminated the Tianyu Sect, it would continue to wave its army north to occupy the northern part of the empire, and the seven northern states Xianzhou, Yanzhou, Zhongzhou, Dingzhou, Yunzhou, Jingzhou, and Yingzhou would be divided equally by the seven major sects, which is the so-called "claim". The five powerful sects among the seven major sects, Wanfeng Lin, Feather God Sect, Iron Sword Sect, Flower Sect, and Lingyun Palace, were interested in this plan to carve up the northern part of the empire, because it could bring real land, population, and taxes, and it was very useful for enhancing the strength of the sect. And the remaining weak Linggu and Antarctic Sects don't have much hope because of their own weak strength, and they don't think that they can get anything at all, as long as their own sects are not destroyed by other sects of the Earth Alliance.
Among them, Wan Fenglin "claimed" the Yingzhou domain, Lingyun Hall "claimed" the Dingzhou domain, and Huazong "claimed" the Yunzhou domain. The Iron Sword Gate "claimed" the Yanzhou Domain and the Yushenzong "claimed" the Xianzhou Domain, these two states are located in the northernmost part of the empire and are the territory of the Wuji Gate, and compared with the current territories of these two sects, they are in the "one south and one north", and the distance is thousands of miles.
And the most unexpected thing is that I originally thought that the two major states of the Heavenly Sage Great Plain, the richest in the empire, the Jingzhou region and the Zhongzhou region, were the focus of the "grabbing" of the seven major sects in the south, and everyone wanted these two states. However, the final result was that among the five most powerful sects, Wanfeng Lin, Feather God Sect, Iron Sword Sect, Flower Sect, and Lingyun Palace, none of the seven major sects wanted the other party to obtain the best two states, and then widened the strength gap between the five major sects.
Therefore, after some bargaining, the five major sects unanimously decided to "claim" the second richest state in the empire, the Jingzhou domain, to Linggu, the second-to-last strength of the seven major sects of the Earth Alliance, and "claimed" the richest Zhongzhou domain in the empire to the Antarctic Gate, which was the weakest in the Earth Alliance, located on Yingzhou Island in the southernmost sea area of the empire. Because only by giving these two major states to the two weakest sects, can the five major sects form a so-called "balance" and obtain the greatest and equal rights in the above two states.
The Tianyu Sect has not yet been beaten, so it is discussing how to divide the eight major states in the north of the empire, and it is really the so-called "the cake has not been made yet, so it began to discuss how to divide and eat"!