Standing at the Forefront

Meng Haoran, a younger member of the Xinghua Village Meng Family, had already understood Clan Leader Meng Jingshan's words perfectly well.

The Crown Prince's faction held power mainly in the Northern Border, while the Empress's sphere of influence lay within the Southern Region.

Because several great aristocratic families also existed in the Southern Region, the Empress could not draw them into her sphere of influence. To thoroughly contend with those great families and the Crown Prince's faction on equal footing, she could only borrow the old Yu Emperor's name as much as possible to support newly risen cultivation families and use them for herself.

Cultivation families like the Xinghua Village Meng Family were precisely the Empress's primary targets.

In Meng Haoran's view, the reason the Xinghua Village Meng Family had risen so swiftly to become an Eighth-Rank Cultivation Family might have had something to do with the Empress's assistance.

Although the throne of the Great Yu Immortal Dynasty had been inherited personally by members of the Imperial House of the Great Yu Immortal Dynasty for the past hundred thousand years, never touched by those great aristocratic families, no one could guarantee that, when the coming chaos arrived, if the Crown Prince's faction suffered a crushing defeat at the Empress's hands in the struggle for succession, those families would accept a woman of ordinary birth becoming the first female Yu Emperor of the Great Yu Immortal Dynasty and leading their great cultivation aristocratic families.

That was something the patriarchs of those great cultivation families could never accept. It was highly possible that those aristocratic families would raise the banner anew, proclaim themselves kings, and make the situation even more chaotic.

As Meng Haoran pondered in secret, Meng Jingshan suddenly looked up at him and said with a faint smile, "Haoran, what