With Hu Xuanqi's words, the surrounding imperial clansmen immediately understood.
"Yes, let them fight, let them bash each other's heads in, let them slaughter each other. After they've killed most of themselves, we'll go and wipe out the rest.
This way, we can not only get back the treasures we gave away, but we can also snatch their belongings.
Ancestor's plan of using wolves to devour wolves and killing with a borrowed knife is brilliant. Not only do we not have to lift a finger, but we can also let them fall into internal conflict, and we can reap the benefits.
Hu Xuanqi glanced with satisfaction at the young disciple.
"You know quite a bit. Why aren't you going to do it?"
"This junior obeys."
The imperial clan disciples scattered, going to deliver the orders to others.
Before long, the imperial clansmen had all received their orders. They did not engage with the enemies, but instead took out their treasures, spirit stones, and elixirs, throwing them towards the south as if they were free.
They were all throwing them in one direction.
The guest officials in the south were stunned by the barrage of objects. When they saw that the items hitting them were actually treasures and spirit stones, they were overjoyed. They immediately bent down to pick them up, and some even started fighting over the spoils.
"Hey, why are they only giving to them and not us?"
The disciples from the other three directions immediately started yelling.
The shrewd Hu family disciple, however, shouted back,
"You asked for half of our things, and we gave them to you. How you divide them is your own business.
Aren't you all on the same side? Go and ask those people. We've already given our things, and if you cause trouble for us again, we won't be polite."
Seeing this, the other guest officials were frantic.
Attacking the imperial clan would make them go back on their word, and it wouldn't be easy to fight them either, especially since the ones in the south had already benefited and would certainly not fight alongside them.
Since attacking the imperial clan was difficult, they decided to go and demand their share from the people in the south, arguing that the promised division was not being honored.
However, when the guest officials from the other directions arrived in the southern area, they realized that their hope of getting their share back was certainly not going to be fulfilled.
This was because the people in the south had already started fighting among themselves over the unequal distribution of spoils.
Seeing this, the others were at a loss about what to do.
Finally, someone joined the fray, snatching things from the southern guest officials. Once one person started, others naturally followed.
After all, they had gone to such great lengths to surround the imperial clan for those very treasures.
Why should some have them and others not?
Soon, almost all the guest officials were fighting.
As Hu Xuanqi had said, these people were nothing more than a disorganized mob, united by a common goal of profit. However, when that profit was transferred to their internal dealings, they would inevitably fall into infighting.
Watching the hundreds of thousands of people fighting amongst themselves, the imperial clan disciples couldn't stop smiling.
Even Hu Xuanqi, the instigator, showed a slight smile.
He wasn't worried about how he would resist the Thunder Emperor Alliance if these people were all wiped out.
Because he had no intention of resisting at all.
They simply couldn't win. Would resistance just delay their deaths? It was better to take advantage of the fact that the Hu family still had people and treasures, and when the Thunder Emperor Alliance arrived, they would directly surrender and defect, which might leave a good impression and secure them a certain status within the Thunder Emperor Alliance.
As for these guest officials, they were outsiders, unstable factors, and it was best to eliminate them as soon as possible.
Hu Xuanqi had also planned that if the Thunder Emperor Hall Alliance attacked his people, and Wan Lei was leading the charge, he would directly kneel and beg for forgiveness. If it were an ancestor from another force, he would appeal to the ties of friendship between the major powers, hoping for some leniency.
The fighting in the south continued, with hundreds of thousands of people engaged in a widespread battle, covering almost every corner of the southern part of the Hu family.
The number of civilian casualties was naturally countless, but mortals were simply not important. As long as the Hu family's imperial clan disciples were kept as the fire seeds, the Hu family would not be destroyed.
Moreover, what if the Hu family was destroyed? Hu Xuanqi could always become a rogue cultivator in the starry sky, a wealthy gentleman.
With this thought, Hu Xuanqi's smile became even more meaningful.
It even held a hint of pride.
Finally, some people were scared out of their wits and stopped fighting others, choosing to flee. They were in the peripheral areas and intended to leave the Hu family.
But when they tried to break through the Hu family's grand formation, they found that they couldn't pass through it no matter what.
The formation was designed to keep outsiders out, not insiders in. How could they be unable to leave from within?
So, these people flew back. They bypassed the southern battlefield and arrived at the perimeter of the imperial clan's area.
Seeing them approach, the imperial clan disciples immediately became vigilant and yelled at them to get lost.
The guest officials, having been cursed, also became angry. A Nascent Soul cultivator, suppressing his temper, stepped forward with clasped hands and said,
"Elder Hu Xuanqi, we no longer wish to serve the Hu family and intend to leave here now."
"Oh, then go ahead. I'm not stopping you?"
Hu Xuanqi looked utterly bewildered. Why were these people bidding farewell before leaving? So polite?
The Nascent Soul cultivator's face contorted as if he had eaten something foul. Finally, he suppressed his anger and said,
"Please, Elder, open the formation and let us leave."
"The formation has always been for exiting, not entering. You don't need to open the formation to leave."
"But we can't get out. Didn't you seal the formation?"
These words made Hu Xuanqi even more confused. He flew up and scanned the imperial clan disciples.
"Who sealed the formation? Open it quickly and let these people scram. Don't let me find out who it was, or they'll regret it."
"I sealed it."
A cold voice echoed from the sky.
Hu Xuanqi did not act like an idiot, raising his head to curse "What are you, to dare..." and then being stunned by the sight of Alliance Leader Wan, trembling like a sieve.
Instead, when he heard the voice coming from above, he knew who the visitor was without even looking up.
In the entire Leifeng Realm, there was only one person capable of taking control of the Hu family's protective formation so silently.
Not even the Pavilion Master of the Heavenly Array Pavilion, nor Old Ancestor Bu Li Weng, could achieve this.
The true number one in formations and combat power in the Leifeng Realm.
There was only this one person.
As the Hu family disciples below looked up at the sky, Hu Xuanqi had already prostrated himself.
"Hu Xuanqi, a sinner and remnant of the Hu family, pays respects to Alliance Leader Wan. Welcome, Alliance Leader Wan, to the sinful land of the Hu family."
He was very pragmatic. Even his own ancestor couldn't last a single round against Wan Lei, let alone a mere Mahayana cultivator like himself.
"You are quite quick to react."
In the sky, Wan Lei stood with his hands behind his back, a cold smile on his lips, while Fang Xiaoyu glared at everyone below.