Xuanyuan's Calculations

After leaving the Youxiong Tribe.

Xuandu and Kong Xuan reappeared. Neither was in a hurry to return, and they slowly traveled through the void...

A moment later.

Kong Xuan suddenly smiled.

"Xuanyuan is rather interesting..."

Xuandu glanced at Kong Xuan.

"What do you mean?"

Though Xuandu asked this, there was no real confusion in his tone. Instead, there was a sense of satisfaction at finding a kindred spirit!

Kong Xuan gave a simple explanation.

Xuandu nodded more and more as he listened.

In truth, Xuandu had seen it as well.

When the two of them had gone to the Youxiong Tribe, Xuanyuan should logically have been the one to receive them. Yet from beginning to end, it had been Guangchengzi and the other Expounding Sect disciples who came forward, while Xuanyuan himself had seemed like a mere lackey...

Was that reasonable?

They had come to assist the Human Emperor!

They had not come to hold the emperor hostage and command the feudal lords.

Xuanyuan must have noticed this as well and been deeply dissatisfied. However, he had been taught and controlled by Guangchengzi and the others since childhood...

Guangchengzi was his teacher.

And these Expounding Sect disciples all deferred to Guangchengzi. Each possessed magic treasures and cultivation, and they were used to being overbearing. Unless he directly fell out with them, how could Xuanyuan reclaim his autonomy?

"That is why Xuanyuan deliberately went along with it..."

"He let the Youxiong Tribe provoke us, certain that we would step in. When that happened, cultivators certainly would not attack him, so the pressure would fall upon Guangchengzi and the others!"

"Whether Guangchengzi and the others suffered losses was secondary!"

"Most importantly, the Expounding Sect people made a grave mistake first. Xuanyuan would then have grounds to gradually voice his objections and slowly