The number of disciples the Qingfeng Sect could mobilize was only enough to control Qii Mountain and the two closest counties—this was their limit.
Forcibly bringing all twelve counties under their banner would only lead to constant mistakes and oversights.
How many disciples could the Qingfeng Sect assign to each county? A hundred? A thousand?
Any single county had tens of thousands of Cultivators, if not more.
Even with a thousand disciples, they would be spread so thin across the various ore veins, spirit lands, lakes, and medicine gardens that they would have little to no real control.
The local Tribulation Cultivators, banking on this very fact, attempted to negotiate a truce with the Qingfeng Sect.
They offered to recognize the Qingfeng Sect's status as the Upper Sect and pay tribute as required, but only if the right to govern the counties remained in their hands.
