Having just broken through, Tang Yan did not rush to cultivate. Instead, he considered the Tang Family's current situation.
With cash rewards as incentive and pills to spur them on, quite a few of the Tang Family's hundred and twenty guards had already broken through to Yellow Tier Second Grade. Once this news spread, it would serve as a powerful deterrent to outsiders.
Even so, Tang Yan still felt it was not enough.
A family's true deterrent power ultimately depended on its strongest fighters.
Take Cloud City's four great families, for instance. The Tang Family was the weakest in overall strength.
But Old Master Tang was at Profound Tier Ninth Grade, on par with Liu Wuhui of the Liu Family.
With that strength, even though the other three families were stronger than the Tang Family, they did not dare move against it lightly.
The strongest fighters determined a family's fate.
Yet even with Tang Ling holding the fort, the Tang Family still could not rest easy.
If the other three families formed an alliance and attacked together, the Tang Family would still face nothing but annihilation.
The three families had yet to act because they still distrusted one another, and it was difficult to agree on how to divide the spoils.
But the Tang Family had been riding high lately. Once it was allowed to grow, swallowing it up would no longer be easy.
Presumably, none of the three families wanted to miss the chance to carve up the Tang Family. Barring any surprises, the day they formed an alliance would not be far off.
The Tang Family had to race against the clock to increase its strength, and ensuring ample cultivation supplies for over a hundred martial artists was practically burning money.
So even if cooperating with the Wonderful