In recent years, the Cao Family had grown increasingly domineering, its expansion seriously threatening the interests of the other great clans.
Especially the Cloud Family and the Flower Family.
The Cloud Family focused on aerospace technology, while the Flower Family controlled the Southeast.
But the Cao Family was like a greedy python, wanting a hand in everything and a share of every profit.
In many high-tech industries and overseas trade projects, the Cao Family had used its influence in government to put obstacles in the Cloud Family's and the Flower Family's way, both openly and covertly.
Beneath the surface, tensions had long been brewing among the great clans, their conflicts multiplying.
Only the ancestral command that the Eight Great Clans stand together, and the thin veneer of civility they maintained, had kept them from openly falling out.
But everyone knew that this fragile balance would be broken sooner or later.
And today, Yue Xiaofei's appearance and his public break with Cao Xuanye had given both Yun Nongyue and Hua Jieyu an opportunity to break the deadlock.
Who was Yue Xiaofei?
The "Peerless National Scholar"!
A national hero whom every general in the Xu Family had to salute!
Behind him stood the entire Xu Family, the Zhao Family, and half the Military!
His own strength was unfathomable. He could single-handedly force a sovereign nation to bow its head!
A man like that was practically a walking nuclear weapon!
If they could bring him into their camp...
They would gain a trump card capable of turning the tide in their future struggles against the Cao Family!
That idiot Cao Xuanye actually drove someone so formidable into the opposing camp over a little wounded pride!
What an absolute fool!
Still, his stupidity has given us an opportunity.
A glint of intelligence and calculation