Xue An had actually anticipated this answer for a long time.
The cultivation world, in a certain sense, is just like nature, where survival favors the fittest governed by natural selection.
This is especially true for Great Sun Island, where sects and noble families are most concentrated.
The Wu Family, as a top noble family, stands at the pinnacle of the food chain, possessing unimaginable resources and authority.
Other small noble families, to survive in this harsh environment, must cling to such colossal entities like the Wu Family, living off the resources that slip through its fingers.
This is like a kind of domesticated relationship, where the Wu Family treats these small noble families as pets, and if something happens, these small families are the first to be sacrificed.
These women here are living examples of this.
