Two Proposals

The objectives spoken by Elder Chi were something that was within Lin Wu's considerations. In fact, the second objective of going against the Calamity Fiend was something that Lin Wu had manufactured after all.

And the first object was just a fruit of his 'efforts'.

Both had come from the same source, but they would allow him to expand his scope of influence even more. 

'The south is mostly under me and now it's time for the north…' Lin Wu thought to himself.

With the southern part of the Long Continent, exerting his control was easy, since there were only a few powers. Even among them, the three sects from the top ten were quick to come under his fold.

The Frozen Cloud sect had been under him for a long time, and the other two were the bottom two sects in ranking. With the Frozen Cloud sect submitting, there was no other option for them too.

As for the seven kingdoms?