"The weak are always at a disadvantage. There's nothing to be done about that!" Xiao Hua said with a hearty laugh. Then, as though recalling something, he asked, "By the way, you said the Duanmu Family has the cunning rabbit's three burrows, and this place is merely the foundation of their sect on the surface. What about the Four Great Families? How deep are their foundations?"
"How deep are the foundations of the Four Great Families?" Princess Zixia shook her head with a bitter smile. "You can only ask Dongfang Qionghao, Ximen Jianzhong, Nangong Tianzhi, and Beiming Chouqing that! And even Dongfang Qionghao does not know the true foundation of the Ximen Noble House! As for their sects, they naturally exist on Cangxian Continent, and our Immortal Palace knows of them as well. But whether it is His Majesty or the Empress, both know those places are merely a bluff. Their true foundations are absolutely not there! Otherwise... hehe, when Changsheng Town was under siege, when His Majesty was trapped, when the Golden-Winged Great Peng was trapped, when Rāgaratna Tathagata was trapped, why did they make no move? On one hand, they feared Xiao Lang's deterrence; on another, the threat of the mayflies. But more importantly... no one knows where the roots of the Four Great Families truly lie!"
"Although the Military School occupied the Immortal Palace and gained righteous legitimacy, all its forces are displayed in the open, hanging high above the heads of the Confucian Hundred Schools. Yet although the Confucian Hundred Schools and the Four Great Families hold the positions of ministers and subjects, they remain hidden in the shadows. Light and darkness, truth and illusion—Confucian cultivation's forces are truly tangled beyond measure!" Xiao Hua could not help sighing.
"To fight against Heaven brings endless joy, to