Worried About Gains and Losses

"Several rare medicinal herbs that Venerable Lei urgently needs, including rouge ginseng and iron sinew grass, are difficult to procure on short notice. For now, they can only be requisitioned from the Left Guli King, but the Left Guli King has been thinking of breaking through to the Sole Self Realm these past two years!"

A group of people had gathered in the golden tent to drink and eat meat in celebration of Wu Chao's return to the royal family. As the gathering drew to a close, Yudan spoke those words quietly to Zhang Xuezhou.

Zhang Xuezhou immediately understood why the Left Guli King, Yizhixie, was so glum.

Yizhixie was one of the few great cultivators in the Xiong State's royal family who did not draw on Demon Power. Compared with the shortcut of cultivating with Demon Power, orthodox cultivation brought slower progress in combat strength and cultivation realm in the early stages. To go further, one even had to advance step by step.

That had left Yizhixie without any advantage when he competed for the position of Chanyu in his early years.

After so much effort, Yizhixie's cultivation had kept advancing and had even slowly caught up with that of the aggressively cultivating Chanyu. Yet the cultivation resources he had painstakingly gathered to enter a higher realm had now been requisitioned.

Yudan vaguely sensed the Chanyu's half-willingness in pursuing Venerable Lei's friendship.

On one hand, the Chanyu wanted Venerable Lei's friendship. On the other, he also wanted to rein in the Left Guli King, Yizhixie, and guard against him growing too powerful.

"Do you think Daba's heart is set on the state or on cultivation?"

As Zhang Xuezhou quietly thanked Yudan for the warning, Yudan could not help asking another question in a low voice.

"Your Highness, you should