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"What's going on, Uncle Chen? She said that the Beixiong Battle Group has suffered heavy losses and asked us to send a thousand men to provide support. She also told us to leave these thousand men with the Beixiong Battle Group."

Yu Peiyao stared at the message sent on the jade pendant, her anger rising rapidly.

The Northern Heroes Legion suffered losses, so why should manpower be drawn from the Demon Wolf Legion?

Yu Peiyao was so angry because this wasn't the first time Chen Ying had targeted the Demon Wolf Squad; she had already affected the Demon Wolf Squad's gains.

"The Song family said they would persuade Uncle Chen. Do you think the Song family is putting on an act, or are they deliberately targeting the battle group?"

Chen An frowned as well. The last time he saw Chen Ying, her favorability rating was 10, and it had been steadily increasing over the past few months. Her targeting of the Demon Wolf Battle Group might not be because of Chen An, but rather because of some other hidden reason.

Chen An didn't really care whether or not manpower was transferred; the number of people didn't matter. He didn't want to gain more resources through this war.

Chen An was worried that Chen Ying's approach, while dealing with the Demon Wolf Legion, might pose a threat to his life.

For example, Chen An's favorability towards rogue cultivators is around 10 to 20, but once on the battlefield, Chen An doesn't care about the deaths of rogue cultivators.

If Chen Ying really wanted to deal with the Demon Wolf Legion, she probably wouldn't care about Chen An's life or death.

Yu Peiyao raised her voice slightly, indignantly saying, "The family has sent word that the family's Golden Core elders have reached an agreement with the Song family. If we encounter trouble on the battlefield, we can go to the Song family, and they will help us."

"But, for some unknown reason, Uncle Chen is determined to target us!"

Yu Peiyao rarely loses her temper, but she really couldn't hold back anymore.

Chen Ying visited the Demon Wolf Squad three times, and Yu Peiyao and Chen An each brought gifts. Yu Peiyao and Chen Ying always got along very well, chatting and laughing. Every time Yu Peiyao talked about her life hunting demons, Chen Ying would show a longing expression, full of anticipation.

Yu Peiyao always felt that Chen Ying wouldn't target the Demon Wolf Legion, but every time Chen Ying left, she would make some inexplicable decisions.

The same methods Yu Peiyao used on the Yu family were like punching cotton when applied to Chen Ying—they had no effect whatsoever.

The communication jade in Yu Peiyao's hand lit up again, displaying an apology message from the Song family elder. The elder said he would help find a way to replenish the Demon Wolf Legion with 1,000 men, but there was no way to do so for the time being, and so on.

Chen An looked at the childlike words on the jade communication stone and felt somewhat speechless.

The cultivation world is a huge makeshift organization, and communication between people is often ineffective. You say your piece, I say mine, and neither of us can convince the other.

Even on a battlefield where people fall every day, there are still people playing house on stage.

The important figures in the Song family wouldn't care about Chen Ying's petty temper, and the important figures in the Yu family wouldn't cause trouble for the Song family over such a matter.

After all, Yu Peiyao and Chen An weren't important people, and no one would care about what they said.

Everything that needed to be said and done has been done. When you encounter an unreasonable person, there's just nothing you can do about it.

Or rather, Chen Ying, who was at the Golden Core stage, never took Foundation Establishment and Qi Refining disciples seriously. She just wanted to achieve her own small goal, to see the lowly ants in distress, and to make herself happy in the process.

Yu Peiyao compromised and sent a thousand cultivators to the Northern Hero Battle Group. No one could disobey the orders of a Golden Core cultivator.

Even if Chen Ying asked Yu Peiyao to be the vanguard to fight, Yu Peiyao had to do it because Chen Ying was a Golden Core cultivator.

No matter how angry or furious Yu Peiyao is, it's meaningless. She's just a Qi Refining stage cultivator. Even when Chen Ying comes to the Demon Wolf Battle Group again, she still has to greet her with a smile and tell her stories about hunting demons.

The resentment and anger were all hidden deep in his heart.

At Chen Ying's camp, several elders of the Song family returned empty-handed once again. They couldn't persuade Chen Ying; no matter how experienced they were, they couldn't possibly get a Golden Core cultivator to listen to them.

Once the Golden Core cultivator from the Yu family spoke, the elders of the Song family could no longer pretend they hadn't seen it. Chen Ying could play around as she pleased, but the Song family elders who were with the battle group dared not be careless.

In order to quell the potential anger of the Yu family, the four elders of the Song family each took out two Foundation Establishment Pills, a total of eight Foundation Establishment Pills, and sent them to the Demon Wolf Battle Group.

The eight Foundation Establishment Pills she obtained quelled Yu Peiyao's anger and made her feel apologetic towards Chen Ying. As for the four Foundation Establishment elders of the Song family, sorry, she didn't know them.

In Yu Peiyao's view, if it wasn't Chen Ying's instruction, why would the four elders of the Song family give away Foundation Establishment Pills, and eight of them at once? This must be the kind of confidence that only Golden Core cultivators have.

Yu Peiyao filtered out all the words spoken by the elders of the Song family when they presented gifts.

Strangely enough, ever since the Song family elder gave Yu Peiyao eight Foundation Establishment Pills, the Demon Wolf Squad has never received any strange instructions.

Chen Ying seemed to have become a different person, and stopped targeting the Demon Wolf Squad.

Two months later, when Chen Ying sent reinforcements to the Demon Wolf Legion again, she gave them more than two thousand rogue cultivators and expressed her apology for borrowing a thousand troops last time.

Only when the Song family elder is injured can the world be achieved.

After Chen Ying left, Yu Peiyao breathed a sigh of relief and looked at Chen An's seat with a wry smile.

"Senior Brother Chen, I want to become stronger because I want others to be willing to listen and to take my words to heart when I speak."

"Otherwise, like before, if Uncle Chen really wants to deal with us, we will die."

Chen An agreed with Yu Peiyao's statement that there is a weight in human communication, and the weak are inherently at a disadvantage when communicating with the strong. Right and wrong are determined by the strong's single thought.

In order to motivate Chen An to work harder and help him earn more resources, Yu Peiyao started her PUA again.

Between Yu Peiyao and Chen An, it is clear that Chen An has more influence, so Yu Peiyao needs to use her linguistic skills to move Chen An and change his mind.

Over the past six months, Yu Peiyao had given Chen An a lot of inspirational stories, so this time she didn't talk about inspirational stories and went straight to talking about the Golden Core families of the Xuan Yang Sect.

This includes internal conflicts within the Xuan Yang Sect and the current situation faced by the Golden Core Liu family.

The Yu family, a top-tier weapon-refining family within the Xuan Yang Sect, boasts a Nascent Soul ancestor and is collectively known as the direct lineage of the Xuan Yang Sect, along with the Shangguan and Song families.

Ye Hongyi's ability to develop steadily in Chen An's team is not because Chen An is particularly capable.

It's because of an unwritten rule within the sect that there will be no Golden Core cultivators within the sect; instead, they will recruit a disciple from another Golden Core cultivator's family.

Liu Cheng dared to send someone to contact Ye Hongyi because his own cultivation level had not reached the Golden Core stage, and he was using the method of pursuing it among his peers.

Otherwise, even the most ordinary Heavenly Spiritual Root cultivator would need at least a Golden Core cultivator, either as a Daoist partner or a disciple.

Liu Cheng's actions were somewhat shameless.

Within the sect, the Liu family is powerful, but not comparable to the Yu family.

In every era, the Yu family has produced more than five Golden Core experts, and they even have the resources to create Golden Core cultivators at any time.

However, in each era, the Liu family only had one Golden Core cultivator. In some periods, after the Golden Core cultivator perished, they could only cultivate Demon Core cultivators to serve as the family's face.

The Liu family has survived to this day because its ancestors occupied two third-grade spiritual veins and dozens of second-grade spiritual veins within the Xuan Yang Sect.

This is also why other Golden Core families in the sect have targeted the Liu family; the resources controlled by the Liu family far exceed those of a normal Golden Core family.

Normally, the third-tier spiritual veins used by Golden Core cultivators are shared by several Golden Core cultivators. However, due to their ancestor's influence, the Liu family has mastered two third-tier spiritual veins and cultivated a large number of spiritual plants.

Even disregarding the increase in cultivation speed, the spiritual materials produced will be abundant.

If the Liu family hadn't been so adept at social etiquette, sending spiritual materials to other Golden Core families every year to cultivate good relations, and hadn't intermarried with each other, the Liu family might have perished thousands of years ago.

In this generation, Liu Zong, a Golden Core cultivator of the Liu family, was nearing the end of his lifespan. Someone devised the Liu Xu Scheme to trick Liu Zong and ruin the Liu family's reputation by using Liu Xu's joining the Hehuan Tower.

When Liu Zong wanted to find a suitable successor in the Liu family, he discovered that due to internal strife, all the cultivators who had the potential to break through to the Golden Core stage had perished.

It's too late to continue training them.

Liu Cheng became the only option for the Liu family. After it was discovered that Liu Cheng had damaged his foundation through dual cultivation, a series of changes occurred throughout the entire Liu family.

Liu Cheng's desire to find Ye Hongyi as his Daoist partner by taking advantage of the power of the Liu family was not only his own choice, but also a decision made under the influence of the Liu family members around him.

By finding a cultivator with a Heavenly Spiritual Root to control and allow her to break through to the Golden Core realm first, the Liu family can continue to wait for the birth of their next Golden Core cultivator.

It can only be said that Liu Cheng was unlucky to have his chance snatched away by Chen An.