Li Yao knew that Long Yangjun was partly telling the people of the Ancient Sages Sector that the federation would not embrace them unconditionally and that they would have to make contributions and changes if they wanted to join the federation. She was also partly reminding him that the experts of the Ancient Sages Sector, including the entire Ancient Sages Sector, were not tools without independent will that he could reshape freely.
There was still a long way to go before the two parties were really combined.
However, at least the experts of the Ancient Sages Sector did not object to joining the federation in principle. What waited to be addressed were just details and technical questions. All in all, it was a huge step forward.
The issues could not be figured out soon. They decided to put the issues on hold after discussing them for a while before the rest of the experts went on to tell everybody their own experience.
