The Sims: I Open the Immortal Path for All Beings

Chapter 1312: Chapter 1260 – 1261: An Irresolvable Open Scheme Chapter 1312: Chapter 1260 – 1261: An Irresolvable Open Scheme When Wood Virtue Star Lord, acting on behalf of the Heavenly Gate, expressed their willingness to share their cultivation system without hoarding it exclusively, the roles initially played by both parties changed.

If one said before that there was a high chance the parties could become enemies, now, everyone could be considered potential partners for negotiation and cooperation.

From nothing to something, from non-existent to existent, this was a completely different attitude.

The envoys from the Holy Lands of the Imperial Dynasty continually proposed terms that each could tolerate. At the same time, they also made demands, needing the Heavenly Gate to first show sincerity as a basis for cooperation.

However, this was directly and decisively refused. Although they were now engaged in a transaction, the Heavenly Gate was conducting exclusive business–they controlled something unique, with no competitors, and thus had the standing to set terms.

Moreover, in conducting transactions, one sometimes must not be too proactive, need to maintain a certain aloofness, not be too agreeable, and let the others feel the scarcity of the item, so they naturally wouldn’t be too unwilling to pay the price.

Although these Star Lords had never done business, Wood Virtue Star Lord and Fate Controller Star Lord, being skilled in strategic planning, had mastered the art of controlling human hearts and the push-and-pull tactics perfectly.

Facing such a seller’s market with unique goods, even though the wisdom of some envoys from the Imperial Dynasty was exceptional, they were helpless.

You must understand, while these people had outwardly reached a unified front, agreeing to advance and retreat together, the ideal was to acquire the other’s cultivation methods for the smallest price possible.

But when negotiations reached a deadlock, the people of the Heavenly Gate started to break them down one by one, and this camp became purely nominal, since these people were not united at heart.

In the end, Wood Virtue Star Lord and his colleagues achieved their true objective. Each Holy Land of the Imperial Dynasty paid with their respective Heavenly and Earthly Treasures as tuition, while the Heavenly Gate set up an academy and then dispatched people to learn from them.

As for the Cultivation Methods needed by the Great Emperors and Ancient Emperors, even serving as envoys for such figures, they had no authority to make decisions for them and could only bring back the information.

The Heavenly Gate offered them two different choices: these Great Emperors and Ancient Emperors could either exchange Cultivation Methods directly with the Heavenly Gate, or the Heavenly Gate would present the Cultivation Concepts to these Great Emperors and Ancient Emperors, who would then forge their own Paths.

Originally, according to what Wood Virtue Star Lord and his colleagues thought, to fully implement this plan, the best outcome would be for even these Great Emperors and Ancient Emperors to practice their Taoist Skill, become deeply immersed, and come to accept their own paths.

But such a notion was too elusive; putting it into practice was almost impossible.

The Great Emperors and Ancient Emperors were equivalent to True Immortals of the Immortal Path Realm, and such powerful beings had reached their current positions whether as Martial Artists or as cultivators from the Great Ming World. They each had their own Path.

Everything was supposed to align with oneself. No matter how excellent others’ skills were, they ultimately were not one’s own path. They could reference and integrate them into their own paths, but they would never completely copy them, nor tread the same old paths as others.

So let alone that Wood Virtue Star Lord and his colleagues couldn’t get cultivation methods of the True Immortal level, even if they could, these Great Emperors and Ancient Emperors wouldn’t simply copy them.

Therefore, they offered two choices, more about imparting the Cultivation Concepts of the Great Ming World to these Great Emperors and Ancient Emperors, subtly changing them.

Meanwhile, among these conditions, all the external objects, the so-called demands for Heavenly and Earthly Treasures, were mainly there to distract these individuals, wanted if available, but not strictly demanded if absent.

Setting up the Taoist Academy and imparting the Taoist Skills, these were the real key moves among their conditions, truly powerful levers.

Perhaps for Martial Artists in this world, they had never heard of a Taoist Academy and instinctively thought it was similar to the Martial Arts schools set up by the Imperial Dynasty.

But only the Star Lords from the Great Ming World knew the power of a Taoist Academy, having witnessed its growth themselves and understood how, initially unremarkable to all mighty forces, it had been maximized by the Emperor Monarch to achieve such effects.

Now, what they needed to do was all traceable–they could completely replicate the initial development process of the Taoist Academy, establish one in this world, then copy the contribution system, recruit more disciples, and disseminate more skills.

After all, what they really wanted to influence were the ordinary Martial Artists, as they were the foundation of building the Imperial Dynasty. Unless these Great Emperors and Ancient Emperors were decisive enough to purge their subordinate powers, as the Taoist Academy developed, and more and more Martial Artists joined, they would entrap and marginalize these Great Emperors and Ancient Emperors.

“As long as the Taoist Academy shows that it does not interfere with the placements of those who graduate, many powers in this world would probably welcome this. They would feel that we are helping them train talents,” Wood Virtue Star Lord said with a laugh, recalling what had happened in the Great Ming World previously.

“Indeed, everyone thinks this is like working for free, but they forget that as a newcomer, his experiences of growth are unique. Entering a new environment, he might face opposition, and these people with shared experiences would instinctively band together, gradually forming a strong force and uniting,” said Star Lord Yi Suan tranquilly.