Chapter 1367: 1011: Willing to Risk Everything

"Want a post?" Jiang Yuan smiled faintly, "Then you’ll have to wait for me to personally review how much profit we gain before I reward based on merit."You Lai heard hope and couldn’t wait to say, "Snow Cloud Valley has two Spirit Stone Veins, with excellent yield! Besides, the Mi Clan has over two thousand Demon Cultivators both of direct lineage and collateral branches, with more than five thousand recruited guards and Contracted Servants.

With the Mirror of Evil in your hand, there’s no need to worry about mistakes. At that time, not only will our supernatural army grow even stronger, but you will directly gain two Spirit Stone Mines in the Wilderness, never having to worry about cultivation resources again!"

The Elder Scholar watched on from the side, smiling broadly.

To be honest, every single one of those that Jiang had scraped together has been subjugated. Look at that, just a few words and two Spirit Stone Veins are within reach!

"Since that’s the case, draw the detailed terrain map and troop distribution." It took out paper and pen from the Storage Bag and handed them over, "This is a great opportunity for you to make a major merit. If we can achieve an overwhelming victory through encirclement without using a single soldier, it would be a boon for us.

After all, Jiang has to supply so many supernatural beings with food and water every day, and that’s all money! If we help gather more, how could Jiang neglect us when he becomes wealthy?"

Taking the paper and pen, You Lai quickly sketched out the terrain and patiently explained: "The terrain of Snow Cloud Valley is complex, easy to defend and hard to attack. This is also the fundamental reason why the Mi Clan chose this location to build a city.

However, the terrain is both a strength and a weakness. Because Snow Cloud Valley is difficult to attack from the outside, and those Demon Beasts from collateral branches who can’t become Demon Cultivators are scattered on the outermost periphery, serving as cannon fodder; and because the terrain conditions are not favorable, thus there aren’t many restrictions set in the whole Snow Cloud Valley.

Therefore, as long as sir can gather High Level Cultivators and enter the hinterland directly through the coordinates I give, the surprise attack is already half successful.

Our tribe is fierce and skilled in battle, remember to avoid clashing head-on. My suggestion is—after entering the hinterland, try to control the arrays at these key locations.

First, you can trap them in different areas and defeat them one by one; second, you can effectively stop them from escaping. Especially the Otherworld Teleportation Arrays located in these two areas, you must close or even destroy them at the first opportunity..."

"...This coordinate is actually a forbidden area specially created by my great-grandfather.

The tribe is inherently combative, and the internal power struggle is intense. So although it appears we all live together, in reality, the direct lineage and various collateral branches and even different houses of the direct lineage do not trust each other.

During the peak of the power struggle in my great-grandfather’s generation, he carefully studied the layout of Snow Cloud Valley. The outermost areas are occupied by unimportant Demon Beasts, followed by declining collateral Demon Cultivators, forming a circular distribution with higher status as you move inward.

Such a layout naturally ensures safety for those living closer to the center when facing external enemies and provides more time to retreat. But if internal struggles escalate to the point of life or death, living closer to the center but losing control of the Teleportation Array means no opportunity to escape.

Therefore, my great-grandfather thoughtfully carved out a forbidden area, requiring a token to enter and exit. In the forbidden area, teleportation is not restricted by any restrictions or arrays, ensuring a private escape route beyond the family grounds.

Later, during my grandfather’s tenure as Patriarch, he encountered palace intrigue and nearly fell victim to its schemes. Fortunately, the forbidden area provided a way to escape, avoiding entrapment, and after recuperating for some time, he regained power.

Since then, this forbidden area has remained a secret of our direct lineage. After I schemed to sell out my eldest sister, harmed my elder brother, and siblings to become the sole heir, my unaware father groomed me as the next Patriarch and revealed this secret to me..."

As You Lai spoke, he wrote and drew on the paper, circling and pointing, not only analyzing the strengths and weaknesses of the various forces coveting power but also the various tactics to attack Snow Cloud Valley. It is truly said, for the sake of becoming an official without suffering, one must be diligent and responsible.

The token that allows free entry and exit to the forbidden area lies within its Storage Bag.

Jiang Yuan thought of returning to the courtyard to first take apart the Storage Bag, taking the token himself to test its authenticity. With a light shake, the thick stack of documents in his hand was gently covered by blue Ice Flame, licking the filthy aura.

A few breaths later, the polluted paper was fully purified. He placed it in his Storage Bag, preparing to get up and leave.

"Unfair!" Just then, a sharp voice suddenly came from over there. Looking towards the sound, Jiang Yuan saw an unfamiliar supernatural being, appearing with a face full of distress from a long time of menial labor.

It resisted the supernatural beings trying to stop it and cried out piercingly, "You are too unfair to us! We were originally cultivators with poor talent and no great fortune, low-level and oppressed everywhere, forced into evil paths without doing many bad things!

I only killed a dozen people, refining barely over a hundred Essence, how sinful can it be?

Why is it that after becoming supernatural beings, we still have to suffer at the bottom? I don’t deserve this! Just because we have no money, no power, and no valuable information, we can’t earn Merit!

But those big-headed villains, they can wipe out a city with a wave of their hand!

Just because they can offer some information and enough benefits, you let them continue to wield power and oppress us, how is your action any different from those Evil Cultivators?!"

Jiang Yuan looked at it with righteous indignation and raised his eyebrows, "’Only killed a dozen people’, said so lightly.

You think that killing a dozen people makes your sins less than Qian Xiaoyu, who killed countless people, so you should be in an official position whipping it as it does labor. You think that just because you neglected the righteous path for the evil path and killed fewer people, you deserve leniency.