Her True Objective

Yang Yuanliu nodded lightly at this, then opened her mouth and began explaining it to everyone.

Just as Jia Huarai had suspected, this was naturally not merely her own idea.

It was a conclusion Chen Yang had reached after listening in on the entire discussion, then consulting with Yang Lingqing and Yang Guanfeng.

As the think tank of the Yang Clan, they had combined the information provided by all sides and analyzed the entire matter from the standpoint of an outside force that had never been touched by the flames of war.

The result of that analysis was that what the Eastern Wilderness sought—or rather, what Meng Xiaoxiao sought—was definitely not something as simple as harvesting blood qi through war.

At the very least, from Chen Yang's perspective, if Meng Xiaoxiao had made such a massive commotion merely to secure a good future for the child in her womb, then she was being far too foolish.

Never mind whether this war to gather blood qi would ultimately succeed.

Even if it truly succeeded, could those gains really offset the karmic backlash that child would face later on the Dao Path?

For matters like gathering blood qi, even many sects and great clans in the Central Region that styled themselves as righteous had surely done plenty of it behind closed doors.

According to the information Jia Huarai had provided, this female cultivator had been pregnant for nine years now.

In other words, if her purpose had been to improve the fetus's aptitude, she had more than enough time over those nine years to act in secret, or to repeatedly start localized wars and scatter the attention of all factions.

Why had she needed to turn the situation into what it was today, making the entire Eastern Wilderness Dynasty the target of