A cunning rabbit had three burrows.
Western Patrol Envoy Xi Qiangu—or rather, the Xi Family that had always controlled the Western Patrol Envoy—was no exception.
Over tens of thousands of years, aside from the normal branching of the clan through three generations and five degrees of kinship, the Xi Family had also used all manner of methods and secret means to support and establish a considerable number of Hidden Xi Clans.
Perhaps the Xi Family understood that using the Western Patrol Envoy and intelligence on the Devil Race as leverage would inevitably bring about a reckoning from the Great Zhou imperial family.
They did not know how long their Xi Family could maintain this position of using the Western Patrol Envoy and intelligence on the Devil Race as leverage, nor did they know how long the Xi Family could continue to prosper like this.
But without question, the Xi Family had begun preparing long ago for the reckoning and decline that might arrive at any time.
Ye Zhen had obtained this intelligence from Ma Yuanjin, the Chief Supervisor of the Internal Affairs Supervisorate, who was considered a confidant of Xi Qiangu within the Western Patrol Envoy.
Even Ma Yuanjin had only heard vague rumors about it.
It was said that the Xi Family used a method of raising gu and selecting generals to choose its family heads. After a new family head took office, he would select all direct-bloodline members of the family who met the requirements.
They would then be assigned separately to the Xi Family's Small Worlds.
Among the Myriad Worlds, there was a Small World that operated according to the Xi Family's will. Within that Small World, the Xi Family head was a god, the supreme ruler.
Under the Xi Family's influence, that Small World had remained