"Recently, everyone should stay in Wangqing Marketplace as much as possible. For some low-level spirit herbs, arrange for some collateral clan members or sect disciples to guard them on the spirit mountains," Ye Xingsu finally said after hesitating for a while.
In truth, even she did not have much confidence when she said this.
Although normally speaking, these families and forces all had to obey the Ye Family.
Moreover, this also concerned their own lives.
But to them, there were times when their core clan members could not plant spirit herbs, could not guide the family's development, and could not guard the mountain gate.
To them, that could likewise cause no small loss.
The resources delayed in all this were not few. Even with the Artifact Refining Pavilion plan this time, those affiliated families would still suffer some losses.
Moreover, the more Penglai acted, the greater the losses might become—even open schemes and hidden plots might come together.
For the Ye Family, in truth, spreading teleportation arrays far and wide would solve the problem once and for all. Having one teleportation array across one prefecture, or even half a prefecture, was still fine, but with so many forces, setting up teleportation arrays was no small expense.
And they could very easily be the first points broken through.
Sure enough, after Ye Xingsu spoke, most of the cultivators fell silent.
They had also guessed that perhaps the accidents involving their clan members and disciples were because of the Ye Family, and that the Ye Family still could not protect them completely.
They could only hide in the marketplaces of Wangqing Prefecture.
Staying in a prefectural marketplace required spirit stones, especially for core clan members' cultivation. They could not possibly enter seclusion and cultivate inside a shop, which meant they would also