President Qu could not voice his dissatisfaction, so he could only keep it to himself. When the Nangong Family came to discuss Pacify Arms Mountain with him, he simply went along with the flow and cooperated with them on a few matters—though this was not originally his intention.
There was only so much he could cooperate with, after all. He still had to consider the Huangfu ancestor's reputation.
But to the Huangfu ancestor, who knew the situation, this was already extremely dangerous.
Nangong Youjiu sat with President Qu for a while before getting up to leave—there were still matters awaiting him within the Nangong Family.
Yet three days later, he suddenly received some news and froze. "The Xue Family... is gone?"
Strictly speaking, the Xue Family still existed, but its Emergence from Dust Stage cultivators... were gone.
The upheaval had occurred the day before. More than ten Emergence from Dust Stage cultivators had charged into the Xue Family's ancestral residence, accompanied by over a hundred Qi Refining cultivators.
The Xue Family was a clan of over ten thousand people, with more than five thousand able fighters. Such numbers did not make them a major clan in the cultivation world, merely a lower-middle-sized one. But they had five Emergence from Dust Adepts, and that gave them the confidence to expand outward.
Of course, it was not merely a matter of having the means. Every clan had an urgent need to expand its living space. They had previously had only four Emergence from Dust Adepts, leaving them willing but unable. Once they gained another, the manpower they could deploy immediately became much more plentiful.
It might have been only one additional Emergence from Dust Stage cultivator, but having one and not having one were entirely different matters. Before this, two Emergence from