Disciple, please come down the mountain soon. Your senior sister can’t wait any longer.

The middle-aged man and representatives of other forces in Hedong became more and more excited the more they thought about it, and the more feasible it seemed to them. The looks they gave Pei Xingchen began to become extremely dangerous, as if they were hunters eyeing their prey, filled with unspeakable greed and coldness, as if they were thinking about how to dismember Pei Xingchen at any time.

With Pei Xingchen's sharp perception, he certainly noticed the gaze from behind him that made him feel uneasy. He knew very well where this gaze came from and what they were thinking.

In fact, this is not difficult to guess, because the Pei family was not so powerful at the beginning. Over the long period of two hundred years, it used similar means to gradually devour and plunder other families and continued to grow and develop.

For martial arts families, no, for all forces, developing peacefully is certainly the right way, but the speed is too slow. If one wants to grow and develop rapidly in a short period of time, the only way is to annex and plunder other families and forces to strengthen oneself.

I don’t know how many of today’s major forces have developed through similar means, which is why they have their current great reputation.

At this point, it has almost become a formula for the development and growth of all forces.

They are always looking for any opportunity to annex and plunder other families and forces, looking for the weaknesses of any family, and are always ready to rush in like hyenas on the African grasslands and eat their prey alive.

At the same time, as they develop, they are also on guard against any forces around them, including their allies.

When the size reaches that of the Pei family or other large families and forces in Hedong, for them, there is no distinction between so-called allies and enemies, because all forces are potential nutrients for their development and growth, or they are competitors.

However, the reason why they did not fight each other immediately and compete with each other was not because they had no longer coveted other forces, but because their strength was too close and the outcome of the fight was unpredictable.

Simply put, it is the fear of losing.

Take the Pei family as an example. Doesn’t the Pei family want to continue to develop?

No, Pei Runnian dreams of leading the Pei family to a higher level and breaking through the current shackles.

The reason why he has not taken any action is not because of anything else, but because the resources needed for the Pei family to continue to develop have really exceeded the limit of what the Pei family can currently obtain.

Given the size of the Pei family, it has indeed reached the ceiling of the resources he can currently control.

If the Pei family wants to move to the next level, they must have a larger territory, more resources, more manpower and more money.

Today, when the sphere of influence of various families or organizations has been fixed, if the Pei family wants to obtain resources to lead the family to a higher level, they can either accumulate them step by step, or devour and plunder other family forces, or there are higher-level forces or families willing to lend a hand to the Pei family.

Apart from these three methods, there is no other way for the Pei family to move to the next level.

What Pei Xingchen didn't know was why Pei Runnian was so crazy about Chu Longtu and wanted to snatch the position of Martial Alliance Deacon back from Chu Longtu. It was because he had fawned over the top boss of the Martial Alliance and wanted to get the boss's help so that the entire Pei family could leap up the social ladder and truly be at the top of the Martial Alliance, instead of being a regional overlord family like it is today.

Although the Pei family's current situation seems to be quite good and they are very powerful in Hedong, they are ultimately just a local tyrant.

To those bigwigs of the Martial Alliance who are at the core of the Martial Alliance and live in the capital, the Pei family is just a stronger country bumpkin.

That's why Pei Runnian tried so hard to take the Pei family to a higher level, because he also wanted to see the scenery at a higher level.

However, although he had curry favor with the top boss of the Martial Alliance, the boss did not unconditionally support the Pei family.

Nonsense, the Pei family is not his son, why would they support him for no reason.

In order to examine the potential of the Pei family and Pei Runnian's ability, the boss asked Pei Runnian to at least win a position as a Martial Alliance Deacon in this Martial Alliance Conference before he would consider promoting the Pei family.

If the Pei family even tries to fill a position as a deacon of the Martial Alliance, then the boss will not even consider promoting the Pei family.

That’s why Pei Runnian was so crazy to target Chu Longtu. This is the root cause!

As for the other two methods, Pei Runnian had considered them.

However, the Pei family simply does not have the foundation to develop step by step.

Ever since they were defeated by the Wanbian Medical Immortal ten years ago, which resulted in the deaths of four elders at the peak of the Dark Energy realm, and the current situation of disunity within the Pei family, the path of development according to plan has been completely blocked.

The premise for orderly development is stability. The Pei family is facing a fire in their backyard every day now, and they simply don’t have the conditions for that.

Maybe if Pei Runnian really wanted to develop according to the rules, the first person to stab him in the back might be someone within the Pei family.

As for annexing and plundering other families or forces, Pei Runnian had thought about it before, but he chose to give up because it was too difficult.

After two hundred years, the Pei family is certainly deeply rooted in Hedong, but this does not mean that the Pei family has absolute power in Hedong.

In Hedong, there are still a few forces that can compete with the Pei family.

Two hundred years have allowed for a clear division of power among the families. Normally, everyone keeps to themselves and at most there are minor frictions, but there has never been a war truly aimed at annexing the other side.

Because they both knew very well that with their current power, neither of them had the absolute confidence and strength to truly swallow up the other.

If a fight really breaks out, it will most likely be a protracted family war.

By then, after years of bloodletting, it is very likely that they will become weaker and weaker against each other, which will lead to other families and forces that have been suppressed by them taking the opportunity to rise up, continue to grow and develop, and turn around like the python swallowing the dragon, and in turn swallow up the Pei family!

With such concerns, of course there will be no fighting!

Such concerns also exist in the hearts of several other families with similar power to the Pei family.

Do you think they really have no desire for the Pei family's power and are not drooling over it?

That is of course impossible.

The reason why I didn't dare to take action was because I was afraid of the risk of the fisherman taking advantage while the snipe and the clam fight!

But now, the situation is completely different!