Anyone, any force, the more they invest in the early stages and the more indifference they show, the greater and more unacceptable the opponent's ambitions may become.
When the Witch God Sect Leader first came to collaborate with the Great Ming Divine Dynasty, the price they paid cannot be said to be small. Not to mention what they did to gain Pei Xuanjing's approval, nor the assistance in Wu Shijiu's breakthrough to the Spiritual Realm Level Nine Strongest Realm, but just the contributions made to the Great Ming Divine Dynasty and Zhu Houji alone were tremendously significant.
They presented to Zhu Houji the Witch God Sect's treasured cultivation methods, divine abilities, and cultivation insights from the Ancient Human Race Common Master—a collection of resources, especially the Human Path Treasures' top-level Divine Weapon, the Xuanyuan Divine Sword. Which of these could be easily quantified?