Lianyu was curious about this "Why did they keep the relationship for so long?"
"In the world of cultivation, there is one thing you have to remember – the greed of people is eternal, and the fear of betrayal is deeper.
Other forces might aim our foundation, but the Yu family hasn't even returned to their peak with just their own foundation, so why would they need our foundation?
This would only split their attention.
Just we ourselves don't have the energy to follow all of our four creation arts – we might say that feng shui and water alchemy are hidden, but in fact, we simply don't have enough successors.
This should be the case for the Yu family too. This means inherently that their greed for our inheritance is rather low.
In addition, whenever a force at our stage falls, most of the time it's because of betrayal.
Our family… well, later you can read the history. As for the Yu family, we don't know much, but it is suspected that their fall was even more tragic than ours!
After all, as the strongest force, they haven't interacted with any other force besides ours. They only interact with the strong forces outside so they aren't closed to the outer world, rather, they somehow expect the family forces in the county to betray them.
Our relationship with the Yu family is more like taking care of each others' wounds.
If you look further, we are also a teaching example for them.
After all, we opened up to the forces here and sold favours, but look at our situation now, aren't we surrounded by enemies?
In this case, shouldn't those that got a favour help us? Well they aren't, so for the Yu family, it's obvious that they made the right choice and we made a mistake.
Because of this, maybe their help is pity.
Regardless, they helped us for a long time, so we have opened up our secret inheritance to them and given them many benefits.
No matter how many feelings are involved, if there is no mutual interest, the relationship would have been broken.
Generally, all foundation building cultivators of their family build their foundation with our foundation building potions, their cultivation resources are also mainly bought from us, all other plants and such are also bought from us, and even many weapons they use are from us.
In exchange for their protection, everything they bus is basically 10% lower than the market value.
At least we can be sure that it was worth it – after all, if it wasn't for them, we would have fallen long ago.
If they ceased their protection, the other forces could blatantly attack us.
Instead, they have to take such measures as making the tribes and beasts fight us."
Lianyu was suspicious for a moment, but then didn't think much of it.
If the Yu family really wanted to attack them, did they need to act like that?
In the first place, there is no trust between the Yu family and other forces of the county – whatever the Yu did, other forces could only say that they weren't careful enough against an enemy they knew nothing about.
Since power and reputation aren't the reason, they have to hold back, maybe they really just treated her Xu family as a little brother.
In the end, they don't lose out on anything, only having to make a proclamation that they protect the Xu family. Their profit is a 10% reduction on many things!
For them, the stronger and large the Xu family is, the better.
After all, as long as the 10% reduction never ceases, the Yu family would be able to reduce all their expenses by 10%!
Lianyu guessed that the Yu family should make at least 100.000 spirit stones yearly, saving 10% is 10.000 spirit stones of pure profit, this is a huge win!
Naturally she knew this was a bit of an idealistic and simplified thought, but she still accepted this as a reasonable guess.
Then Lianyu wanted to ask a few more things, but stopped herself.
"Grandfather, I will come back later… for now, I have to take care of a few things."
Her grandfather nodded and said "Well, just visit the secret library for clan matters. For now, we have defended our clan land.
I estimate we have at least half a year until the next offense."
Lianyu nodded – it was true that the Yu family would protect them from direct attack, but they weren't babysitters.
It was already generous enough for them to keep their promise, anything more would be greedy, so neither of the two thought about asking for help.
If you can't even take care of such small matters, then you might as well just disband the clan!
…
Lianyu went back to the main clan hall.
The elders haven't arrived just yet, as they also needed to prepare a few reports, so Lianyu walked out.
The bright sun shined on her face as she left the main hall.
A smile couldn't help show on her face.
In the end, even if they were in a bad situation of being surrounded by enemies, at least they had a chance!
For Lianyu, this chance was more than just a chance to revive the clan – she had reincarnated!
This is the dream of countless people, how could she not be excited?
As she thought of it, she also thought of her 'cheat'.
Throughout the whole process, every moment of being alone, she said 'system' quietly or in her head, she gesticulated a bit, she even tried various other words in different languages, but nothing worked.
Now that she was alone, even while walking to her own courtyard, Lianyu inspected her own body and soul to understand the situation.
Just then, she really found something!
In her sea of consciousness, she saw a shocking scene.
Usually, she would look in her sea of consciousness from a gods perspective or directly the view of her soul body residing there.
The only issue was… on top of the two usual, she had a third view – also that of a soul body!