Rui smirked as the leaders of human civilization stiffened at his stipulation.
There was no way that he was going to offer so much for free. In fact, he considered his current offer quite generous compared to the actual value of what he was offering. In light of the Beast Incursion, he decided to limit himself to demanding just one caveat instead of numerous conditions and actual remuneration.
Just accelerating the development of the Water Sect was good enough as far as he was concerned. The Water Sect served as a source of innovation and perspective on adaptive evolution, perhaps one that would allow him to overcome a bottleneck if he did one day hit one.
