His words raised a lot of whispers among the Yuanying Cultivators and the Divinity Transformation Stage Cultivators like thunder.
However, other than Yan Liren, Ba Xiaoyu, Master Bitter Cicada, and the other Yuanying Cultivators who were not interested in the power struggle at all, the other experts were not too surprised.
Obviously, as bystanders, they had more or less reached the same conclusion after witnessing the performance of the little girl who claimed to be 'Moonfall's sister'.
Han Baling clicked on the list of the top hundred sects of the Federation softly and opened the details of the sects under the banner of 'Li Yao's group'. He continued, "Why are the new forces barely affected? There are two very reasonable explanations.
"Firstly, a hundred years ago, when Jin Xinyue and the demon race needed help and support the most, the new forces were just born and did not have the power to do anything. At that time, the Federation was almost dominated by the traditional conglomerates. It was useless for Jin Xinyue to beg the new sects.
"Secondly, at that time, Li Yao had just left. Everybody was on Li Yao's side. If Jin Xinyue really needed help from the Glorious Sunlight Group, the Double Dragons Union, and the other forces, those forces would not have given her too much trouble and would certainly have helped her whenever they could.
"Therefore, the new forces did not have any 'blackmail materials' in Jin Xinyue's hands.
"On the surface, the two reasons are very reasonable. However, if we view the whole thing from a higher level and consider the vicissitudes of the Xing Yao Federation in the past hundred years and the new forces such as the Glorious Sunlight Group, the Double Dragons Union, and the other new forces as a whole such as' Li Yao's group ', the conclusion will be completely different!"
Han Baling truly deserved to be a great leader who had united the forces of all the tribes on the Dark Cloud Prairies on his own, annihilated all the sects on the prairies in only decades, established the 'Eight Tribes of Dark Cloud', and tried to swallow the world.
His eyes were bright and spirited, like a cunning and farsighted hungry wolf. With a single glance, he saw through the scheming and farsighted plans of the mastermind behind the scenes.
Han Baling clicked his tongue in amazement at the brilliance and profundity of the whole scheme. He continued in the most admiring tone. "In the past hundred years, there has always been power struggles within the Xing Yao Federation. It is perfectly normal. Everybody is a human being, and human beings have their own selfish desires and ambitions. When the selfish desires and ambitions surge and merge with each other, they will turn into all kinds of factions and camps.
"In the Great Qian Dynasty, there are the 'eunuch's party' and the 'emperor's party', as well as the 'local sects' and the 'imperial court'. Naturally, there are all kinds of opposition parties in the Dark Cloud Great Qin.
"However righteous the Xing Yao Federation claims to be, it is a country made of human beings after all. How can it be united?
"Besides, the explosive development of the Xing Yao Federation in the past hundred years is an unprecedented change at the edge of the cosmos. All kinds of new technologies, techniques, and discoveries will certainly lead to the emergence of new sects, new experts, new classes, and new interest groups. In the end, it will certainly have intense conflicts with the dominators of the old Federation, the traditional conglomerates that have been deeply rooted and dominating since hundreds of years ago!
"Therefore, in the election of the Xing Yao Federation today, on the surface, the two parties in the competition seem to represent the interests of the core worlds and the interests of the new worlds. It is a territorial competition.
"But in fact, it is a fierce competition between the traditional conglomerates that represent the traditional interest groups and 'Li Yao's group' that represents the new interest groups!
"The territorial competition may be resolved, but the competition between the old and the new is hardly a compromise!"
Pa! Pa! Pa! Pa!
Long Yangjun was the first to applaud. "Well said! Fellow Cultivator Han's analysis is too marvelous. What do you think, Fellow Cultivator Spiritual Vulture? "
She nudged Li Yao next to her with her elbow.
"That's right. The whip penetrates deep into the heart, the threads are intricate, and it goes straight to the heart!"
Li Yao nodded solemnly. "Insightful. Truly insightful!"
"Lord Wang, Fellow Cultivator Spiritual Vulture, you are flattering me!"
Han Baling flipped his hair casually. There was not the slightest 'flattering' on his gloating face. Instead, it was an expression of 'there is only one truth, and I know it all'. Clearing his throat, he continued, "Over the past half month, I have studied the rise of the major forces under Li Yao's group in the past hundred years. I have a minor understanding about the birth, development, and expansion of the entire Li Yao's group, which I would like to share with all the fellow Cultivators here. Due to the lack of time, I may have missed a lot of things. Please feel free to correct me."
"You are being too polite, Fellow Cultivator Han."
Li Yao said, "As the great leader of Cloud Qin, your insight and strategy are among the most distinguished of all of us. Your opinion must be very insightful. We are all ears!"
Han Baling smiled and said unhurriedly, "A hundred years ago, Vulture Li Yao, known as the dominator of three Sectors, almost single-handedly resolved the ten thousand years of conflict between human beings and demons, connected the Heaven's Origin Sector, the Flying Star Sector, and the Blood Demon Sector, and established the illustrious feats at the edge of the cosmos that nobody had accomplished in the past thousand years. In the meantime, he himself became a well-known, respected superhero in the Federation. That is a fact that everybody knows.
"However, hehe. The gap between the so-called 'superhero' and the 'supreme dominator' is more than just the gap between the sky and the earth.
"Everybody, we have seen countless heroes in the Ancient Sages Sector, haven't we? But can every hero establish a magnificent force that has been glorious for a thousand years? Of course not!
"Heroes have prestige and fame, but how to transform the prestige and fame into a real 'force' and make this force expand and be passed down for hundreds or thousands of years has been a great problem that has been extremely difficult to solve since ancient times.
"Hehe. In the Ancient Sages Sector, whenever a new hero shows up, the ancient conglomerates and the obsolete forces will have plenty of ways to deal with him.
"They are not necessarily going to attack him with real swords and spears. It is more likely that they will 'make him a figurehead' and 'kill him with flattery'. The so-called prestige and fame will turn him into a clay idol, and the real benefits flowing down from the prestige and fame will still belong to the ancient conglomerates and the obsolete forces!"
Compared to Emperor Phoenix's Great Qian Dynasty, Han Baling's own Ghost Qin was an ambitious new force, too.
Therefore, in the competition between the old and the new, he naturally took Li Yao's group's side without any hesitation. The more he talked, the more he could not hide the admiration in his voice. "A hundred years ago, Li Yao made such great achievements. The so-called 'Li Yao's group' had just been born. It was inevitable that it would attract too much attention. Before long, the traditional conglomerates would swarm to him and try to make him a figurehead!
"If it were an ordinary hero, I'm afraid they wouldn't be able to avoid such a solution no matter what. The best outcome would be to enter the circle of the old aristocrats and be completely assimilated by them, becoming an ordinary aristocrat.
"Hehe. If it were anyone else, being a 'common conglomerate' might have been their ultimate goal for the rest of their life. But what kind of person is Vulture Li Yao? How could he be willing to be a member of the old order after making such an unparalleled contribution to unify the three Sectors?
"Breaking the old order and dominating the new Federation! I'm afraid that's Monster Li's real goal! "
"Pa!"
Li Yao could not help but slap his thigh hard and exclaim, "Fair enough. Why didn't I think of it?"
"Well, not just Master Spiritual Vulture, who was born in a remote place in the Southland of Sorcerers and has been focusing on refining, but even I, who claimed to be the 'Master of Dark Cloud', would never have thought that the old devil's appetite could be so enormous had it not been for the series of things that happened recently!"
Han Baling remarked with mixed feelings, with admiration and fear on his face. "Monster Li is too far-sighted, too sophisticated, and too brutal. As expected of the old monster that the twelve of us, Yuanying and Divinity Transformation Stage Cultivators, have to be wary of even if we join hands! Fellow Cultivator Spiritual Vulture, why do you think he suddenly disappeared a hundred years ago when he was at the height of his fame and prestige, and he never showed up again? "
Li Yao blinked for a long time and thought hard for a long time. In the end, he could only give up and shake his head hard. "I don't. I don't. Why?"
"It's very simple. Retreat in order to advance!"
Han Baling said solemnly. "At that time, Li Yao's group was already showing signs of greatness. With Li Yao's growing prestige and fame, he would've had conflicts of interest with the conservative forces of the traditional conglomerates if he had continued to develop.
"It must be noted that the Federation did not have the 'Blood Demon Sector' as a great external enemy at that time, and the expedition army of the Imperium would not arrive for more than a hundred years. Therefore, there had been no external trouble for more than a hundred years. Wouldn't there have been internal strife?
"If Li Yao had stayed in the Federation and led Li Yao's group to develop at such a high speed, he would've had head-on conflicts with the traditional conglomerates very soon.
"At that time, Li Yao's group was not fully developed yet. Even though it was famous for a while, it did not have a solid foundation after all. How could it have been a match for the traditional conglomerates that had been operating for hundreds of years?
"They would've never dealt with him head-on. Instead, they would've restrained, restricted, and blocked him like a boa. They would never have allowed his' Li Yao's group 'to grow. It was fine to grow, but it had to be played according to the old rules of the game!
"His rise was quick, and his demise was quick! Have we not seen enough examples like that in the Ancient Sages Sector?
"Faced with such an unfavorable situation, Monster Li played two very brilliant moves!
"Firstly, retreat in order to advance. He disappeared voluntarily, claiming that he had gone to … explore the sea of stars!
"The move had two purposes. Firstly, he pretended to be weak to the enemy, indicating that he was just an idle crane who was indifferent to fame, fortune, and power and did not have the ambition to compete for hegemony at all. Therefore, the traditional conglomerates could rest assured about the 'insignificant' forces under his name!
"Secondly, it was also a warning. 'I, Monster Li, am going to travel and train myself today, but you can't be too outrageous to my disciples and grand disciples, either. Otherwise, who knows what kind of methods and forces I will bring back to settle the scores years later?'
"Brilliant. What a brilliant move!
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