The Huangfu Clan was the first Golden Core family Feng Jun had come into contact with after arriving on the Kunhao Plane. Back then, Huangfu Wuxia had been as proud as a little princess.
However, Huangfu True Adept knew his own position clearly. His was a crippled Golden Core family—there was only one Golden Core True Adept, himself.
Huangfu Wuxia could strut around before minor cultivators, but Huangfu True Adept did not have that much carefree time. He was always considering the family's direction for development and how to establish more connections.
After learning that Feng Jun could help people achieve Core Embrace, Huangfu True Adept examined the family's younger generation and felt rather ashamed—there were fewer than twenty at the Emergence from Dust Stage altogether, and among them, not a single one had the potential for Core Embrace in the near future!
Huangfu True Adept still had four hundred years to live, but a man without long-term concerns would soon face immediate troubles. The younger generation of the clan was disappointing. Aside from Huangfu Wuxia, he could not count on anyone achieving Core Embrace within the next two hundred years—and Huangfu Wuxia was a woman who might marry out.
Simply put, the Huangfu Clan could gain no advantage from Feng Jun's Core Embrace divinations. Huangfu Wuxia would certainly benefit, but that was already something in their own pocket and did not count.
Thus, Patriarch Huangfu would rather take a risk and cooperate with Qi Yu, gathering promising candidates to solve troubles for certain important figures and ensure the Huangfu Clan's continued existence.
Seeing his uneasy expression, Feng Jun felt a complicated mixture of emotions. This is the Golden Core Patriarch I once looked up to with such reverence.
Still, Feng Jun ultimately said, "Huangfu True Adept, whom you cooperate