About the situation of the neutral factions, Xuan Hao was left in a somewhat awkward situation. Elder Song had informed him about their request for assistance should the Wei Empire want to take control of their territory with the weakening of the Blue Sea Empire, but given that his own strength was still only at the Late Stage of the Sea Formation Realm and had yet to reach the Peak of the Sea Formation Realm, let alone the Land Creation Realm, he had no intentions of turning a major power like the Wei Empire into enemies.
Because of this, faced with the request from the neutral factions that only had a trade relationship with the sect, he had no reason nor intention to step in to defend them against the Wei Empire.
Although this might end up affecting the resource acquisition speed of the sect, there was nothing he could do about it outside of encouraging the development of resource rich secret realms for the sect.
