Although he knew that Han Yuantai was exaggerating, Li Yao was still deeply awed by 'Heaven Battering King' Qi Changsheng's rise. [Web]
None of the people who could set off a storm of blood in the world of ancient Cultivators were easy to deal with, as expected!
Han Yuantai continued. "That's the situation right now. The White Lotus Cult is thriving in the southeast, the Heaven Battering Army is dominating in the northwest, and Cloud Qin is coveting in the north. The Great Qian Dynasty, which seems to be flourishing for a moment, is actually weak inside and on the brink of collapse!
"This is a moment of life and death, but the Cultivators of the Great Qian Dynasty are still fighting against each other. They have no intention of being united and reviving the Great Qian Dynasty at all!"
Li Yao frowned harder and harder. "Are the Cultivators of the Great Qian Dynasty still fighting against each other when they are faced with a great enemy?"
"Great enemy?"
Han Yuantai pretended that he was holding back his laughter and asked, "If I may ask, who do you think is the greatest enemy of the Cultivators of the Great Qian Dynasty, Master?"
Li Yao pondered for a moment and said, "There can't be two suns in the sky, and there can't be two rulers in the land. If I were the emperor, I wouldn't tolerate the local magnates and sects becoming independent kingdoms. Therefore, the emperor of the Great Qian Dynasty is the greatest enemy of the Cultivators of the Great Qian Dynasty!"
Han Yuantai shook his head.
Li Yao said again, "The White Lotus Cult is savaging the southeast, and the Heaven Battering Army is sweeping the northwest. If the east and the west attack together, chances are that they will tear apart the entire world. They are the greatest enemy of the Cultivators of the Great Qian Dynasty!"
Han Yuantai still shook his head.
Li Yao said in displeasure, "Are you implying that it is the Ghost Qin of Dark Cloud?"
Han Yuantai shook his head again and laughed aloud. "It is not the emperor, the White Lotus Cult, the Heaven Battering Army, or even Cloud Qin. The greatest enemy of the Cultivators of the Great Qian Dynasty is themselves!"
Li Yao stared at him coldly without blinking his eyes.
Under his cold eyes, Han Yuantai could not help but hold his breath for a moment. But he gritted his teeth and explained, "I remember that you said at the beginning that the most important things for a Cultivator are 'wealth, land, arts, and companionship'. They can even be simplified into 'resources'!
"Only with spiritual energy, crystals, magical equipment, manuals, and heavenly materials and earthly treasures can one cultivate. Without resources, no matter how good one's aptitude is, it is useless!"
"Therefore, for every Cultivation sect, their natural instinct is to try their best to defend the resources that they already have and to plunder more resources without caring about anything!
"Here comes the question. Where are the so-called 'wealth, land, arts, and companions' concentrated?"
"The Son of Heaven is rich, so the Royal Family naturally controls a large amount of cultivation resources. However, the Royal Family has gradually declined over the past several hundred years, and all kinds of resources have been exhausted. In addition, the Royal Family is too big a target, and their prestige still lingers. Whoever dares to rashly seize it will inevitably be attacked by a group!"
"The White Lotus Cult is a bunch of ghosts who train themselves by absorbing resentment, which is different from the mainstream Cultivation methods of the world of Cultivators. They have also been annihilated dozens of times. How can they have any resources?"
"The Heaven Battering Army is a bunch of bandits. After every raid, all the resources will be consumed on the spot. They are as poor as thieves!"
"Cloud Qin is about the same. The Dark Cloud Prairies are both bitterly cold lands with few natural paradises. The Cultivators of the Dark Cloud Prairies are famous for their hardships. Other than the resources such as the Dragon Wolves, there is barely anything worth attacking!"
"Neither the White Lotus Cult, the Heaven Battering Army, nor Cloud Qin will get any benefits from the war. If a few Core Formation Stage Cultivators and Yuanying are killed in the war, what's the point of doing so?"
"Some people are willing to be killed, but none of them are willing to be losers. The White Lotus Cult, the Heaven Battering Army, and Cloud Qin are all losers. Therefore, for the 'righteous' Cultivators of the Great Qian Dynasty, unless they are desperate because we have come to them first, will they ever consider us as targets of war?"
"Now that we've come to this point, you should understand it now, right, Master?"
"In the entire Ancient Sages Sector, ten percent of the wealth, land, arts, and companions are in the hands of the 'righteous sects'!"
"Killing people for their treasures is not their purpose, but their purpose is to steal their treasures. Whoever has the 'treasures' will naturally be the ones to be killed!
"Wealth, land, arts, and companions are not like leeks in the field. They will not grow easily. Instead, they will be exhausted, dried up, and polluted.
"In the Great Qian Dynasty, at first, the wealth, land, arts, and companions were shared by eighty sects equally. Naturally, they lived a happy life. But right now, almost four thousand sects are sharing the same amount of wealth, land, arts, and companions. There are too many monks and too little gruel. It is not hard to imagine how intense the relationship between the sects is!
"Therefore, the Cultivators of the Great Qian Dynasty seem to be at peace on the surface, but they are actually fighting against each other in private. It can't be more gory!"
Li Yao said solemnly, "Since they all claim to be righteous sects, how can they fight each other to the death? You can't do things like killing people for their treasures openly, can you?"
Han Yuantai smiled. "There are always ways to form cliques, sabotage, and slander each other!"
"Of course, you don't believe in empty words, Master. Let me give you an example that is right next to you!
"You know that I am the leader of the Kun Peng Tribe in Cloud Qin and Han Baling's younger brother. I am somewhat famous in the Dark Cloud Prairies!
"Why was I bold enough to sneak into the southwest on my own despite the great distance? Was I not scared that the Yuanying Cultivators of the Great Qian Dynasty would besiege and kill me? "
Li Yao narrowed his eyes. "It does make sense. My arrival was not within your calculations. You were very confident that you could retreat in one piece! Why? "
"Hahaha!"
Han Yuantai laughed and said, "Because I knew that nobody else from the Great Qian Dynasty would carry out the recruitment mission except for the Ling family and the Purple Pole Sword Sect. Even the Purple Pole Sword Sect would not send all its members. It was already their best to send one Cultivator at the peak of the Core Formation Stage and one at the beginning level of the Nascent Soul Stage!
"It was because countless people inside the Great Qian Dynasty did not want the mission to succeed. They intentionally wanted the mission to fail so that the Ling family would be crushed. Through the destruction of the Ling family, they would find a breakthrough to deal with the Purple Pole Sword Sect, the 'best sword sect in the world'. Then, they would divide the wealth, land, arts, and companions that the Purple Pole Sword Sect controlled!"
"Oh?"
Li Yao rolled his eyes and sniffed. "The Purple Pole Sword Sect has been passed on for almost a thousand years. It is one of the strongest sects in the world. How did it suddenly become a target? There must be a reason, shouldn't there? "
"Of course there is a reason."
With a weird smile, Han Yuantai said, "Because the Purple Pole Sword Sect, as well as the noble families such as the Ling family under the protection of the Purple Pole Sword Sect, are all eunuchs!"
"Eunuchs …"
Li Yao's acting skills were being tested greatly.
He had an urge to vomit blood.
"We have to start with Emperor Qiyuan of the Great Qian Dynasty, who was killed last year," Han Yuantai said unhurriedly.
Han Yuantai said unhurriedly, "As we said just now, if the emperor has to deal with the complicated affairs of the country every day, he will have no time for training. If he is not strong enough, not only will he not be able to intimidate the Yuanying experts of the major sects, he may also 'die' uncannily if he is not careful enough!
"On the other hand, if the emperor is ambitious enough to become a top expert and intimidate the local Yuanying, he will have to hand over the affairs of the country to other people.
"He cannot hand them over to the ministers because most of the ministers are from the local sects. They have been colluding with each other for a long time. All they can think about is how to make the emperor a mere figurehead for the benefits of their own sects.
"He cannot hand them over to his brothers, either. Who doesn't want to sit on the throne of the emperor and have a taste of it? Wouldn't he be asking for trouble if he raised the ambitions of his brothers for no reason?
"On second thought, the emperor can only entrust the affairs of the country to one kind of people, which is the eunuchs around him!
"The eunuchs do not belong to any sect. They are loyal to the emperor and have no offspring. Their ambitions are useless. In the eyes of the emperor, they are more trustworthy than the ministers and his brothers.
"Therefore, of the sixty-six emperors of the Great Qian Dynasty, if the emperor walks on the path of pure physical strength and pursues the unparalleled arts, some powerful eunuchs will often appear!
"It was exactly the case when Emperor Qiyuan was on the throne.
"He was a famous maniac of training. Devoted to the unparalleled techniques, he was determined to imitate Emperor Wu Taizu in the past. He wanted to advance into the Divinity Transformation Stage so that he could intimidate all the sects with his unstoppable strength!
"He was too busy practicing the unparalleled arts day and night to deal with the affairs of the court. Therefore, he raised a spokesperson for himself in the court, Wang Xi, the Great Eunuch!"
"Wang Xi …"
Li Yao chewed on the name in silence.
It sounded plain, but since Han Yuantai had wasted his time, he must've been as tough as' Mother White Lotus' Wan Mingzhu and 'Heaven Battering King' Qi Changsheng!
As he expected, Han Yuantai said, "There were a lot of powerful eunuchs in the Great Qian Dynasty. The Cultivation sects knew what the emperor was thinking and did not want to push him too hard. Therefore, they just let it be and even conspired with the eunuchs to deceive the emperor together. So, there was not much trouble.
"Therefore, after Head Eunuch Wang Xi made a name for himself, many Cultivation sects did not take him seriously. They tried to pull him to their side with threats and promises as usual.
"But out of their expectations, this Wang Xi was not a common eunuch. His wisdom, shrewdness, and even Cultivation were all unparalleled!
"On the surface, Wang Xi pretended to be awed by the Cultivation sects and greedy for fame. He agreed to cooperate with them and informed them of the emperor's every move. Then, he turned a blind eye to, and even connived at, the unscrupulous activities of the Cultivation sects.
"But in secret, they instigated discord and tried to intensify the conflicts among the Cultivation sects. They even led several clandestine battles among the Cultivation sects!
"He even established an agency of assassination and investigation named 'Ghost Character' under the secret instruction of many Cultivation sects, which was designed to deal with the unspeakable problems of the Cultivation sects.
"Just like that, Wang Xi, on one hand, mired the major sects in internal strife and weakened them nonstop, and on the other hand, he kept assassins and men of sacrifice. He even held the secrets of countless sects in his hands. With an incomplete body, he toyed with the entire world in his hands!
"When the time was right and he finally shed all pretense of cordiality, the Cultivation sects finally discovered that this seemingly insignificant eunuch was not only fully fledged and had a lot of assassins under his command, but he was also an unparalleled Sword Immortal himself, and his Cultivation was so high that it made people tremble in awe!"
"What!"
Li Yao finally couldn't help but exclaim, "A eunuch turned out to be an unparalleled swordsman?"
"Exactly."
Han Yuantai smiled bitterly. "A damn eunuch turned out to be one of the strongest sword Cultivators in the world. Even his enemies had to admit it. It is not hard to imagine Wang Xi's capability!"
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